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Well, the midi port is the midi port... it's a standard definition (like USB is) so no, the difference isn't there. However a good midi supporting card such as the SBPCI-128 will have high quality midi playback through it's own built in synth. Playing midi files on the soundblaster synth vs...

Bet you never thought you'd see those words in that order, eh :D :D :D Butt seriously (oh gees I'm really gone now) the stuff does work. But not the stuff for babies... the really thick stuff Lifeguards use is chemically the same as the little tubes Radio Shack used to sell... 8oz for...

The problem here is midi support. Only Creative does it right. The Musical Instrument Digital Interface isn't audio, it's a streaming digital port. It's governed by a control language spoken by MIDI enabled keyboards, samplers, effects engines etc. It allows precise timing between multiple...

Well, it was in the 60s.

Well, can't say I'll miss it much. Most ISPs give space with your account so I've always tended to use that instead. Like most things Internet it started out as a really great idea but slowly descended into the bowls of objectionability. Yahoo, in it's infinite wisdom did the same with it...

Anymore? No. Realistically? Yes, it's something of a concern. With the move to Object Oriented Programming (OOP) --particularly in Dlephi-- program sizes have bloated beyond all reason. I once downloaded an example Delphi program that let you choose an MP3 file and play it...

Please don't take this the wrong way and do note that I am including myself when I observe how easily the techy crowd loses track of just how little the general public actually knows about anything. Example: I have an Uncle who recently retired from a GM assembly plant. His entire working...

Yes I've seen that setup too... My point was that with MPC-HC you don't need the K-Lite pack at all... it's all in the program. The K-Lite pack is merely duplicating the internal codecs.

I agree... and I've been telling "my guys" that for some time now. There will be a few who update almost imediately and the rest as they do hardware upgrades. I don't see much point until I do ugrade my own hardware... I dunno, I suppose I'm just very used to what I have.

That may well be the case. I've been to Mac forums where PCs are trashed big time day in and day out... surprisingly, I've learned a lot from those places... it's about where you are. What I don't get is why this is so personal to you... It's just hardware... It's not like someone is...

Hold on thar, hoss... Are you saying that Rob's observations are factually incorrect? Are not these price differences rather bloated compared to the improvements? Can you provide any evidence that he's wrong? Really... He's talking about hardware pricing, not an attacking your...

"You need 16 gigabytes of free space on your computer to install Windows 7" 16 Gigs! Wow... Of course it doesn't like my video cards. It doesn't like my network card. I doesn't like my sound card (old soundblaster for MIDI compatibility)... Oh well... XP, installed in under...

Wow... can't say I envy you this mess. clbudf.sys is a system driver file used to read DVD data in UDF format. The information on UDF formats is here. Basically it's a standard file system used on optical disks, intended to replace the older ISO spec. The file itself comes from...

Yep, I've seen fans that will move more air at 500rpm than some of their 3600rpm cousins. But seriously, how many people do you know who A) have even the first clue of this or B) would know where to get them even if they did? I wouldn't exactly call Panaflo a "low speed" fan. They spin at...

Ahh there are two versions... 6.4.1 (I think) that is Media Player Classic and it does require the KLite pack. But there's also 1.2.908 and 1.3.something of "MPClassic Home Cinema" that does not. The Home Cinema version aside from looking the same, is a totally different piece of software...

Thanks for jumping in Kougar.... If our friend is going to rip the DVDs VLC will play them. But you should know that MPClassic Home Cinema version no longer requires the K-Lite pack to do the same thing. It's a single EXE file that does it all (hense my earlier recommendation). However...

Of course it does. I haven't totally divorced reality on this one. But that doesn't stop me from seeing better solutions in many cases (pun intended). I've even had people come to me about my insistance on quiet PCs and pay me to get the racket out of their offices. In one such job I...

If what I've read about HDCP is correct, it could actually be your television set.... Have you tried it on a computer monitor... I know it won't give you 1080p output but it would be interesting to see if it works at all. For the drive not recognizing disks... go into hardware manager and...

No, i didn't miss your point at all. Based on experience that started in the 70s and progressed into a career as a design level technician (i.e. "Technologist") I quite simply disagree with you.

"Going broke saving money. " Slugbug... love your tagline!