My first attempt at growing

yea I do! But I dont know a whole lot of what Im doing when setting my shit up! My latest toy is a slingbox that is the red box on top of the cable box... optical audio is my best option correct? damn my shit is dusty, damn flash really shows that shit!

Good question and there are a couple answers.

Really it all depends on what you're watching. Like I said before in my thread, if you are watching anything on your PS3 for example, that is a Blu-ray player as well, then you want to use HDMI for your audio.

The reason I say this is because it has the ability to carry these new audio formats. They are really big in size and need to be transfered down a cable that can handle the bandwidth. Toslink is not capable of carrying those signals.

All this other stuff also depends on how well you receiver is you have, your speakers, and the source you are using for the audio. If the receiver doesn't support those formats, then all you need is toslink. If you don't have a high end audio system, then you probably wouldn't notice a difference anyways.

Look at the back of your DVDs from now on and look at what the audio is encoded with. It should say something like Dolby Digital, DTS, Dolby ProLogic, etc..

Most Blu-ray movies will include a HD audio format of some sort. Some will not carry them at all.

HDMI = Dolby ProLogic,Dolby Digital, Dolby Digital Plus, Dolby TrueHD, and DTS-HD

Toslink = Dolby ProLogic, Dolby Digital, and DTS


So if you are using toslink right now and your receiver doesn't support the new audio formats, then you are probably safe to stay hooked up that way.

High-Definition Multimedia Interface - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
TOSLINK - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

BTW.. WIPE YOUR DAMN STUFF UP!

to lazy for that cleaning shit... I do need to clean it though... Im using a hdmi cable right now and I guess I will be keeping it.. my receiver is a high end Yamaha so supports everything.. A friend had told me I should go with optical audio which I guess is the toslink?

Yea, optical is toslink. No, you don't want to be using toslink. That would just be downgrading know what I mean? If you are unsure if it supports these new HD audio formats, look on the receiver. It should tell you whether or not it does.

Do you have all your FW updates on your PS3? If not, I would advise doing that to get the most out of your PS3. How are you sending the audio signal to your receiver, PCM or Bitstream?

Soon, everything we buy that has an HDMI port on it, has to be HDCP compliant. What that means is if anything is detected on the system and not using HDMI for audio and video, then you will get a error or your video will be downsized to non HD quality - 640x480. So go ahead and keep using that HDMI cable.

The government is trying to control us bro! Just wait till all this ICT and Broadcast flag shit goes down. You will say "damn, GrnMan was right! This is bullshit!!"

GrnMan said:

Yea, optical is toslink. No, you don't want to be using toslink. That would just be downgrading know what I mean? If you are unsure if it supports these new HD audio formats, look on the receiver. It should tell you whether or not it does.

Do you have all your FW updates on your PS3? If not, I would advise doing that to get the most out of your PS3. How are you sending the audio signal to your receiver, PCM or Bitstream?

Soon, everything we buy that has an HDMI port on it, has to be HDCP compliant. What that means is if anything is detected on the system and not using HDMI for audio and video, then you will get a error or your video will be downsized to non HD quality - 640x480. So go ahead and keep using that HDMI cable.

The government is trying to control us bro! Just wait till all this ICT and Broadcast flag shit goes down. You will say "damn, GrnMan was right! This is bullshit!!"

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I dont doubt ya now bro! fucking government.... My receiver suports ass formats... My output to receiver is linear pcm 2ch.. I think

Yea, change that to 5.1 or whatever your settings are. I'd need to know what they are to tell ya. I don't own a PS3, just a PS2.

What you have it on now is sending it as 2-channel stereo. That's the lowest quality audio you can get. If you have a 5.1 system, you might want to change it. Make sure you receiver is setup the same way your PS3 is setup.

So if your PS3 is decoding the audio signal and sending it to the receiver, make sure the receiver is set to accept the PCM signal. And vice versa...

done! Now im gonna have to get a movie and blast it!! Im bout ready to call ya dr phil with all the advice ya given me! ya hookin me up!! Wish I could smoke some karma on ya!

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done! Now im gonna have to get a movie and blast it!! Im bout ready to call ya dr phil with all the advice ya given me! ya hookin me up!! Wish I could smoke some karma on ya!

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HAHA..right on bro, I enjoy helping people it. You should definitely be able to tell a difference now man. So get a bad ass movie going and test it out. Let me know what ya think..

gonna watch snatch! dts sound. One more question.. my receiver has a setting called pure direct.. ya know what that is?

Ya, most likely a Yamaha thing. It's a sound setting most likely. All different receivers give them different names.

When you get the movie rolling, fuck around with that and some of the other audio settings like that until you get a good feal for what sounds best. Some will give you deeper bass and some will come through more clear.

gotcha.....

Also, your receiver should say on it what audio is being processed. Look for anything lit up on the receiver like DTS or Dobly Digital or whatever.

gotta be photoshop

LOL..you're crazy bro..

Ok so as I mentioned earlier in this post I recently quit my job for a better one but it has put me in a lil financial crunch. I was planning on doing a separate veg room and flower room. I have a pretty big space to work in... so I have doing everything with that mindset... In the veg room I was going to take clones from each of the 5 plants I have and force flower them to sex em and choose a mother from that point... I cant really afford to set up the flower room now. I have hps lights, but no tray etc.... Now I'm thinking of taking down my lights in the veg area and hanging my hps and going to 12 and 12.
I'm wondering if I will be able to get the males out before seeding the whole thing up... I'm hopping that with the rest of the journal info I can get peoples thoughts on my plan here...

I got impatient and went ahead and added two 600w hps lamps and put schedule on 12 and 12.. I wasn't sure what height I should set them at, the fuckers put off some pretty good heat so I put about a foot above the canopy... Hope I haven't fucked up.... I have room to put one more in the middle, anyone think I should or is the 1200w enough?

Dude that will be plenty of light! They will love that shit. How tall are they now?

This morning I went into my grow to check on em and found them all drooping looking fucking scary!! This being the morning after switching to hps it scared the shit out of me..



after finding them in this condition I immediately turned the water on and checked the temp, at the bottom it was 86 and the top of the canopy was fucking 89.... I hung some fans and got air moving better in there, buy the time I had that done, 15 min tops they started to perk up!! Whew what a relief! Im now wondering if I should step up my watering schedule. They are on a drip irrigation on a timer set three times a day for aprox 20 min. and ppm of 918.. Im also going to run a fresh line into the room two 4in ducts going to the lights... thoughts?

Mine did this exact thing when I switched to 12/12. I think I just watered them and they recovered in about 20 mins. I'll need to go check again..

From what I've seen, this is completely normal.