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November 8

Surround Sound

Hey. I was just wondering if there is such a thing, in North America, as home theater systems that are larger than just 1200 watts? I went on to JVC, Sony, Panasonic, Samsung, even Sanyo and they all only have, if not, less than 1200 watters. Canada or US seem to have none.Jwking 00:58, 8 November 2007 (UTC)

Adcom and Sunfire are two companies (I'm sure there are others) that make 300 and 400 watt per channel amps for home use in 5.1 and 7.1 channel configurations. Depending on the number of channels, you'd have 1500-2800 watts peak (and that's not counting a separately powered subwoofer). Another way to do this with consumer equipment would be to have a large dedicated amp for each channel.

Hopefully you plan on sitting very far from your speakers. / edg ☺ ☭ 01:12, 8 November 2007 (UTC)

WHICH MOVIE

Can anyone help me answer the question as to which movie to this day made the most money? Thanks in advance! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.71.46.156 (talk) 03:04, 8 November 2007 (UTC)

I think it's Jurassic Park. Cheers,JetLover (Report a mistake) 03:06, 8 November 2007 (UTC)

You'll have to be more specific, because there are various scales used - Made the most money how (e.g. just from box office sales, or including videos/DVDs, or including merchandising spinoffs)? How are you measuring the money (in absolute dollar terms, or adjusting for inflation, or based on some other kind of consumer price index)? I think that if you work just off box office takings, and adjust dollar amounts for inflation, Gone With the Wind is pretty high up the list, for example. (Addendum) I notice we have a List of biggest opening weekends, which links to BoxOfficeMojo, which includes this list, which indeed suggests that if Gone With the Wind's box office takings were adjusted for inflation, they would be worth over a billion modern US dollars. Confusing Manifestation 03:55, 8 November 2007 (UTC)

Titanic wins on Wikipedia's List of highest-grossing films and Box Office Mojo's list of the same, both based on unadjusted total box office receipts. In inflation adjusted receipts, Gone With the Wind leads considerably over second-place Star Wars on Box Office Mojo. / edg ☺ ☭ 04:29, 8 November 2007 (UTC)

Thanks all! i meant box office wise? i researched it a bit and came up with Titanic as well :-) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.176.127.86 (talk) 22:34, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

Name of a song

What's the music in this neat video? Thanks! — 189.15.67.168 16:42, 8 November 2007 (UTC)

• Interesting. It's certainly exactly in the vein of Soul Bossa Nova, including what does sound like Rahsaan Roland Kirk on flute. --jpgordon^∇∆∇∆ 19:09, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

edutechnoenteratainment???

hello- the other night - in the middle of the night - i found something wonderful on wikipedia and i bookmarked it. lo and behold, it's disappeared on my mac! i can't find it anywhere. is there a way to track my wiki use? i use the site often.

You might consider creating an account, so that you can add articles to your watchlist. --barneca (talk) 18:52, 8 November 2007 (UTC)

I keep searching for something I found on wiki a few nights ago...can't remember the term. it is very important to find, and may work into a dissertation. I belive it was a word like edutechnology or edusociology or something, means basically bites of educational material embedded in media technology - for example - grey's anatomy conveying serious information about strokes and health or cartoons teaching children to read. There is a specific term, and I can't find it!

thank you oodles! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.80.170.2 (talk) 18:35, 8 November 2007 (UTC)

You may be thinking of Edutainment. 86.21.74.40 18:44, 8 November 2007 (UTC)