Lounge of Tomorrow - Total Serious Happy Thread

GD, my hubby says stuff-into-receiver vs stuff-into-tv is mostly preference, as well as how close your stuff is to receiver or tv. Our stuff is in a cabinet on the floor, ten feet from the tv, so it works better for us to plug everything into the receiver and then run it to the tv. If you had an entertainment center with everything together, it may make more sense to run it all to the tv. Depends on how the cabling can run, that kind of thing.

Congrats, Goon!

Kevy Baby

01-26-2012 06:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Moonliner (Post 356302)

On the "con" side, it means you have to have your receiver powered up and set to the correct input anytime you want to watch TV.

One of the things I like about our receiver is that it has a Standby Through mode which allows the HDMI signal to pass through without the receiver being on

CoasterMatt

01-26-2012 08:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Moonliner (Post 356302)

On the "con" side, it means you have to have your receiver powered up and set to the correct input anytime you want to watch TV. At least in my house this has a low WAF. I had to add a learning remote to the mix.

WAF = (Wife Approval Factor)

Not necessarily true, depending on the TV and receiver- an HDMI 1.4 spec setup with audio return, you don't have to have everything turned on to watch tv. It's called standby bypass on our receiver.

Kevy Baby

01-26-2012 08:24 PM

Our 11-disc Blu Ray collection of all eight Harry Potter movies that I ordered from Amazon UK for only $48 just arrived today. Thanks to Coaster Matt for the tip!

Moonliner

01-26-2012 08:28 PM

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Originally Posted by CoasterMatt (Post 356335)

Not necessarily true, depending on the TV and receiver- an HDMI 1.4 spec setup with audio return, you don't have to have everything turned on to watch tv. It's called standby bypass on our receiver.

And use the tv's built in speakers? No thanks.

lashbear

01-27-2012 12:24 AM

Just to add to the fray with all the TV technospeak.....

[Ralphie]I turn the dial on my CRT TV and the channel changes !!![/Ralphie]

Ghoulish Delight

01-27-2012 12:32 AM

Oh dear. We just tried a DVD (upscaled, we don't own any BluRay). We started with LotR:FotR.

If there is a divorce, philosophical differences over the motion-smoothing technology, or whatever LG calls it (TruMotion?), will be the most likely culprit.

Morrigoon

01-27-2012 11:43 PM

Now that Alex has a job, and is going to be away a LoT, it was finally time to fix his phone issues (his 6-year old phone was about to DIE), which meant he hopped over to Verizon with me, AND... we both got new iPhones!

Been waiting a looooooong time for that. Sort of a belated Christmas gift to ourselves, since at the time we had other concerns ;)

Cadaverous Pallor

01-30-2012 03:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight (Post 356345)

That was a pretty epic debate.

As it stands, I'm ceding that the TruMotion thing doesn't work too well when the camera moves, and that it's bad enough to make the good part not so good. I really wish that aspect were better, since the feeling of realism is very appealing to me. I'd rather be "in the movie" than watching a movie.

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