Week of November 21, 2004 Q: I’ve been looking at a high-quality surround receiver rated at 100 watts per channel at 8 ohms between 20-20khz, with distortion below .1%. The speakers I’d like to get are Infinity Beta 50 speakers. The speakers are 8 ohms and can handle 250 watts. Will the receiver have enough [...]
Week of October 31, 2004 Q: I have a 5-year old Olympus Camedia digital camera and a new Dell Windows XP PC. When I install the Olympus software and attempt to download pictures, it does not work and suggests one of the following: change the port setting, lower connection speed, or set camera to outer [...]
Week of August 1, 2004 Q: I read your article about the small dye-sublimation photo printers from Canon and Olympus and was wondering if you could recommend something a little larger? I like the dye-sub prints and I have used a large dye-sub printer at work, but it was around $1,000 (American dollar equivalent) and [...]
Week of July 18, 2004 Q: Do you have any advice on portable CD players, MP3 players, hard disk players (e.g., iPod), etc? -Paul LaFontaine, A: The best advice I can give to anyone using a portable music player is to use great headphones. A common theme seen by regular readers of this [...]
Week of January 4, 2004 Q: Is there any product that will effectively remove ‘red eye’ from pictures on my computer? -Donald Wallick A: Most image editing programs have a function to remove redeye from your pictures. When you use the redeye removal tools, use the image zoom feature to make the eyes as [...]
Week of December 28, 2003 Q: I have some CD’s that skip and stick when I play them. How do I know if is the disk or my player? A: It is a combination of both player and disc that are causing your playback problems. CD players vary in their ability to handle scratched [...]
Week of November 16, 2003 Q: I have a three year-old HP printer/scanner/copier. I was recently given a Fuji digital camera and I take lots of photos with it. The two don’t like each other. The driver from the camera displaces the scanner driver. Four times I have had to go through a dreadful [...]
Week of August 17, 2003 Q: I recently bought a professional digital camera and am becoming quite serious about photography. I want to buy a laptop computer to use with my camera and want to get the best screen possible. What do you recommend? -Sharon, State College, PA A: [...]
Week 35, 2003 Q: I have a Sony combination tuner, tape and CD stereo system that is about 13 years old. It has always worked fine, but now the CD player does not work. I suspect having it professionally repaired now would cost more than the whole system originally cost. Any [...]
Week 32, 2003 Q: I recently started renting DVDs. When I try to play them, about 50% give me this message: “cannot play in this format, please play another type of disc”, I am now afraid to rent any more DVDs. What does this mean? My DVD player is almost four [...]
Week 16, 2003 Q) What a jury rig! I have a Sony plasma TV that only has two RGB connectors and one S-Video connector. I had to buy a bunch of converter boxes to hook up a DVD, HDTV receiver, and VCR to my Sony surround sound system and my plasma TV. [...]
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