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Someone is selling one on the forum, currently that is your best bang for your buck. If I didn't already have one I'd be all over it.

I have loaded it and so far have had no problems. I haven't loaded it at home yet only at work! I'm a big fan of Google's previous software and I assume Chrome will fall right in line.

More than likely it's a hard drive failure. You may or may not be able to get some stuff off of it, an external drive case for the failed drive may be a good investment. When you done throw the drive away!

Walker, I find it very easy to spend other people's money, but try to get me to spend my own.... The cables that will come with your PVR, assuming that you got the Shaw HD PVR, and not the regular digital PVR, are component video cables (red,green,blue). This is the same technology that has been used to get maximum picture quality from DVD players for 5+ years. You will see an increase in picture quality vs using RCA cables (red, yellow, whie) and even a s-video cable. To get the "true" HD picture you will have to use a HDMI cable. As I said before there are probably 100 different brands that will make this cable, 95% of which will all have higher, noticiable in my opinion, quality than the component cables. The brand that you select is up to you and how much you want to spend, but after buying the TV and the PVR, I think you'd be a fool to cut the last corner and not pick up the HDMI cable. On a second note when you get the PVR installed, try running a comparison between the 1080i signal and the 720p signal from the PVR. The upper tier tv's are all rated for 1080p but the shaw box does not send a 1080p signal. I found the 720p signal from the shaw box to be higher quality. I don't think it really matters how you set everything up, the habs won't look good in any format....GO FLAMES!

Yak, i can't speak for Cozumel but I just got back from Mexico and I can make a recomendation. We went deep sea fishing with an outfit called Captain Ricks, we had a great experience. They offer FF in the mayan, although you must have your own gear. I'd think that if you were willing to pay the guide fees they'd be able to take you anywhere you wanted to go. If they can't accomodate you, this is the type of outfit that would direct you to someone else that they had confidence in.

I agree about not wanting to cheap out after dropping the wad on the TV, but I did! I find it hard to stomach paying $200 for the monster cable HDMI when the same thing, non monsterized, is $70 at the bay for a cable twice as long. Bottom line is it shouldn't be noticably worse with the "cheaper HDMI cable" (still better than component cables), but if your already in 4K for the TV and PVR, whats another $100 +/- to remove all doubt from your mind?

Does anyone know if there's a shop in town that rents pontoon boats? There listed in the University Outdoor Catalogue but was wondering if there was anywhere else. I've been thinking about getting one and would like to take float one before I decide to make the big purchase.