Gateway 50" HDTV-Ready Flat-Panel Plasma TV

Gateway 50

Gateway 50" HDTV-Ready Flat-Panel Plasma TV
Manufacturer: Gateway
Product Type: CE

Editorial Review:
Product Description
Since its foundation, Gateway has been a consistent innovator in the PC industry, starting with a business model that provides maximum value to its customers. Gateway was the first PC manufacturer to bring to market such customer-focused concepts as integrated Internet services, a broad selection of peripherals and software, a personalized Internet portal and bundled Internet access with the purchase of most Gateway PCs.
Amazon.com Product Description
Fifty inches can be bigger than you think: you'd need a 55-inch 4:3 aspect-ratio set to give you widescreen images as big as those rendered by Gateway's 50-inch, 16:9 high-definition plasma television. The set boasts a native pixel resolution of 1,366 x 768, with exemplary 600:1 contrast, high 600 cd/m2 brightness, and plenty of audio/video inputs and outputs for your home-entertainment needs. There's even an RGB PC input so you can view your computer images in larger-than-life lushness.

A plasma screen consists of two thin sheets of glass containing tiny, gas-filled cells. Electronic current stimulates the cells to produce light and color, creating a bright, steady, vivid pictures. You also get extremely wide viewing angles (160 degrees with this set), and easy placement due to the TV's slim profile--this Gateway set is a mere 3.9 inches deep, perfect for desk or wall mounting (a table stand is supplied, and the set is compatible with most mounting hardware). Brightness tends to be extremely uniform across plasma screens, which are also impervious to the picture distortion and negative color balances that afflict CRT monitors when placed near lighting or sound systems.

Built-in digital scaling engine accepts various computer and HDTV signals, then digitally maps the signals to fit within the screen's 1,366 x 768 pixels. Compatible signals include computer display resolutions up to 1,280 x 1,024 and all HDTV signals, including 720p and 1080i.

Gateway even offers advanced digital image processing, which converts all interlaced (composite-video, S-video) signals to progressive-scanned images for bright, flicker-free viewing. A built-in digital visual interface (DVI) jack eliminates the need for analog-to-digital conversion between your DTV set-top box or computer.

PIP (picture-in-picture) gives you the option of watching TV and one non-PC, non-HD input source simultaneously. You can view with one image inset, or with two images side by side (picture-by-picture)--and you can swap images at the touch of a button. A choice of digital zoom modes lets you fill the screen to eliminate letterbox bars on 4:3 (or other) aspect-ratio content, and picture freeze ensures you don't miss any details.

Stereo speakers with five watts per channel offer strong, clear sound. Bass, treble, BBE Sound maximizer, and audio balance controls let you tailor the set's sound output, while, for more spacious-sounding programs, SRS sound processing simulates surround sound through any two speakers. A stereo minijack (.125-inch) output facilitates hookup with optional external computer speakers, and a monaural RCA output lets you use an optional subwoofer to enhance the low-frequency response of your listening system. There's a stereo (left/right) RCA output with internally selectable fixed or variable level for routing the TV's sound to an integrated amplifier or surround receiver.

With its versatile power supply (AC 100 to 240 volts, 50 or 60 Hz, 4.5 amps), the 50-inch set is equally at home in many countries.

What's in the Box
TV, table stand, remote control, remote batteries, AC power cord, a user's manual, a remote control manual, and warranty/registration information.

Average customer rating: 4.0

good hard drive with one caveat:
I buy it for the house and help me open space
Quality & Value
Works fine
quicker to throw your money down the drain than buy this

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Cavalry CAUE37250 3.5" External Module Hard Drive With 7200RPM 250GB USB 2.0 Outside

Manufacturer: Cavalry
Product Group: CE
Binding: Electronics
ASIN: B000FFYQ1E

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Product Description

Cavalry CAUE37250 is a 3.5" External Solution.PRODUCT FEATURES:250GB Hard Drive, USB 2.0 interface;USB 2.0 and 1.1 compliant;Bus transfer rate up to 480Mb/sec;High Quality Aluminum material;AC input voltage: 100-240 VAC, DC output: +5V/ +12V;Solid aluminum mounting to steady the device;For PC and MAC.

Customer Reviews:

good hard drive with one caveat:.......2007-05-24

This drive is supposed to be plug and play however when I plugged it in it didn't work. After some tears I think this is a good hard drive with one caveat: the tech support is pretty bad and consists of " Go to our website" and "When you plugged it in it didn't work?". It took me 3 tries to tech support and almost put it back into it's box. In desperation I tried another USB cable and it worked. I just remember smacking myself in the head and thinking if the tech support didn't consider that the USB cable was bad, how many people have mistakenly sent back their drives when it was DOA?

After that mess, it worked. It's a pretty nice piece of hardware and stores and retrieves quickly.I pray that it doesn't give out for a long time otherwise I may be in trouble if I call for tech support.

I buy it for the house and help me open space .......2007-05-23

This Hard Drive have the 7200RPM that will help you make your computer find your data fast is money well used.

Quality & Value.......2007-05-23

So far I'm quite pleased. I had purchased a Western Digital portable hard drive (120 GB) which was useless, as neither of my computers, Mac desktop & laptop, had sufficient USB power to run it. For ten bucks more, the Cavalry was delivered to my door, gave me 250 GB, and worked right away. I downloaded PsyncX onto both computers to run a backup.

Works fine.......2007-05-21

I have a Macintosh and the hard drive came formatted for Microsoft. It was fairly easy to fix by deleting the whole drive. Once I did that, it worked fine, but then again I have only had it for a month and have not been doing file transfers very often.

quicker to throw your money down the drain than buy this.......2007-05-07

despite claims it had to be reformatted to work with a mac. the technical support line helped me reformat (which was very quick and easy) and then i downloaded a back-up. after that one time however it turns on but does not connect to the laptop. tech support keeps trying to tell me to plug in the usb cable (as if i didn't know) and can not help. so i tossed it in the garbage. money down the drain on a useless product

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