Total Serious Happy Thread

[Snowflake]

Good news for Alex and Goonie (and little Amelia) hooray!

[alphabassettgrrl]

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]

Originally Posted by Moonliner

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]

Originally Posted by Moonliner

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]

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]

Originally Posted by CoasterMatt

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]

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

[Ghoulish Delight]

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]

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]

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

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.

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.