Digital Phones Reviews

To kick off its partnership with HP on a new line of cable and power conditioning products , Monster is offering up the HP Monster Digital PowerCenter 800G w/ Green Power in our Crave Giveaway of the week. Like Belkin's Conserve surge protector ...

I Actually went for the BIG Sony W Series HDTV, and Love it!! Now, I have a Few Questions for Other Owners of the W-Series Sony makes. The First is the Time. My Bravia (W5100) looses the Time every so Often. It gets Annoying after a While. I DO flip the Switch on the Surge Protector every Week, when I know I won't watch it. Considering the Price I payed, I would Think it can remember the Time, without needing Power to it all the Time. (maybe I just Answered my own Question on this one...) The Second is the Video Settings. I've Figured-out the Basics - Aspect-Ratio, Noise-Reduction/MPEG Noise Reduction, ect. But what about the 120Hz Smooth-Motion?!? I'm hearing that Blu-ray Movies are 24p, and that 120Hz shouldn't be Used for Blu-ray Movies. I can't seem to Figure-out if this HDTV Automatically sets itself to 24p-Mode, or what. But I can't seem to Find the 24p Mode in Any of the menu's!! <:P And what about the Signal-Stregth?!? I actually Utilize OTA Digital-TV, and Enjoy the Free HD Content. (Especially Football games!! :D) But every now & Then, I notice that the Sound Drops like a Cell-Phone, even-though the Video keeps playing Perfectly on the Screen. Am I loosing my TV Signal when this Happens?!? Or is there a Sound Setting, that's trying to mess with the Sound Image?!? Does this have anything to do with Noise-Reduction?!? What about the Sound Settings?!? What Setting is the Best for Watching TV, and what about Movies?!? I have an Onkyo Home-Theater System, and I use that for Movies. But sometimes I watch them with it Off. I Discovered the 7-Band Equalizer, and have the 100Hz at +3, the 200Hz at +2, and the 500Hz at +1. The Rest are Flat, too keep the Tweeters from taking Over the Sound. What do you guys think?!?

Primarily I will use for battery chargers for my digital camera, video camera, phone (in standalone mode), and toothbrush. Can I plug in a surge protector into the converter safely? Going in February.

We got digital phone service through Cox and our phone line has unlimited problems ranging from static, Spanish music playing during conversations, to long bouts of no dial tone (aka no phone access). I recently read: "When you connect your home analog phone to your office's digital line, when you lift the receiver, the phone tries to draw an electrical current to operate. Typically this is regulated by the phone company's central office. Since the typical proprietary digital phone system has no facilities to regulate the current being drawn through it, your analog phone can draw too much current—so much that it either fries itself or in rare cases, damages the phone system's line card." Im wondering if this is causing our problems. Our current setup: Cox digital modem < 2-jack adapter < wall jack < 2-jack adapter < surge protector power strip < computer < old-school digital answering machine < phone. Before I dive into the tangles of wires, can anyone advise me on a new connection setup? Or if its even needed? It could just be our old house for all I know... Thanks!

This is complicated, so I'll do my best to condense. - 2 years ago, our house was struck by lightning. everything was ruined. cable company wouldn't replace any of it and we had to buy new stuff. The cable box was not grounded and we told them so, but they said that it was and refused to fix it. - last wee, we got struck again. TVs, computer, cable modem, vonage phone box, and x box were all ruined (xbox was plugged into tv). Our other electrical devices were fine, even the ones plugged into same outlets as these things. Cable company comes out and admits the box wasn't grounded and grounds it. Says they'll submit it to their insurance. Won't return phone calls and when we go to their office to talk to them, they are "out of the office." - Our lights never flickered. A digital clock plugged into the same outlet as the computer didn't reset itself. Nothing else was affected. This is the second time we'll be replacing everything because of their negligence. An electrician has verified that it came in through the cable and not the electricity. Are we owed? I understand lightning is an act of God, but not having the cable box grounded violates safety codes and they refused to ground it after the first strike, claiming it already was even though an electrician had told us it wasn't. There was a cable surge protector on the cable wires, but they don't cover 100 percent, especially from a direct hit to the cable source. This comes straight from the manufacturer, the electricia, AND the cable company's own mouths. Also, MY insurance won't cover it because they say the cable company should have had their box grounded, but when we tried to get them to ground it they refused.