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JustAnEngineer wrote:If your TV has plenty of inputs for everything, you can plug all of the inputs into the TV and just plug the audio out from the TV into the receiver.
titan wrote:When I setup a home theater I usually run everything I can through the receiver. The receiver should have a bunch of options for enhancing your experience/immersion, such as audio syncing so that the lips and what you hear are synchronized.
Vrock wrote:titan wrote:When I setup a home theater I usually run everything I can through the receiver. The receiver should have a bunch of options for enhancing your experience/immersion, such as audio syncing so that the lips and what you hear are synchronized.
My biggest problem with routing all video thru the receiver is that you lose the ability to calibrate picture information for each specific input. Instead all your sources are using the same TV input which means if you have to manually adjust settings each time you use a different source.
JJCDAD wrote:
Tell the wife to go make you a sammich!
Vrock wrote:titan wrote:When I setup a home theater I usually run everything I can through the receiver. The receiver should have a bunch of options for enhancing your experience/immersion, such as audio syncing so that the lips and what you hear are synchronized.
My biggest problem with routing all video thru the receiver is that you lose the ability to calibrate picture information for each specific input. Instead all your sources are using the same TV input which means if you have to manually adjust settings each time you use a different source.
Usacomp2k3 wrote:Vrock wrote:titan wrote:When I setup a home theater I usually run everything I can through the receiver. The receiver should have a bunch of options for enhancing your experience/immersion, such as audio syncing so that the lips and what you hear are synchronized.
My biggest problem with routing all video thru the receiver is that you lose the ability to calibrate picture information for each specific input. Instead all your sources are using the same TV input which means if you have to manually adjust settings each time you use a different source.
I can't say that I've ever 'calibrated picture information'. It usually just works (TM)
Usacomp2k3 wrote:Brightness, contrast, color temperature, and color saturation all make a significant difference. The goal of home theater of any kind is to faithfully reproduce the theater experience in the home. Sets that aren't calibrated don't necessarily look bad, but it's a very safe bet that they don't look accurate. Taking half an hour with a basic calibration disc can go a long way toward fixing that, heck, even just taking the TV out of "Vivid" mode is an improvement. If you're really obsessive a full-fledged ISF calibration is the only way to go (I'm not quite that obsessive, mostly because I'm cheap).Vrock wrote:titan wrote:When I setup a home theater I usually run everything I can through the receiver. The receiver should have a bunch of options for enhancing your experience/immersion, such as audio syncing so that the lips and what you hear are synchronized.
My biggest problem with routing all video thru the receiver is that you lose the ability to calibrate picture information for each specific input. Instead all your sources are using the same TV input which means if you have to manually adjust settings each time you use a different source.
I can't say that I've ever 'calibrated picture information'. It usually just works (TM)
david00214 wrote:This can be a nice feature if your TV has a picture setting it will default to depending on the input you select. You can have a "movie" setting for your DVD player, "gaming setting" for your gaming console, and "TV" setting for your cable box, as examples...
paulWTAMU wrote:Keep in mind that unless you do some workarounds/spend money on adaptors, the universal remote won't work with the PS3.Mine has them, but until I get A: more than one input and B: a universal remote, they're not that high on my list to figure out. My next purchase is probably a PS3 to use as a BR player...at that stage I will first get a universal remote, and then start switching all the damn full screen movies I've got to wide screen blue ray (unless they're my older movies that were shot in non-widescreen, like some of the old Disney movies I have).
paulWTAMU wrote:Doh. Oh well...soon as my reward zone points come in I'll use them on the universal remote then, and maybe a PS3 (should be enough to cover a good part of those).
david00214 wrote:paulWTAMU wrote:Doh. Oh well...soon as my reward zone points come in I'll use them on the universal remote then, and maybe a PS3 (should be enough to cover a good part of those).
IIRC correctly the PS3 remote is bluetooth. That's why you can't use just any universal remote for the PS3. If you google.... ah heck I'll do it
http://www.remotecentral.com/articles/ps3-ir-remote.htm
paulWTAMU wrote:Damn. I just looked at the BR selection on Amazon and it's still pretty skimpy. That makes the PS3 a lot lower priority since I mostly want it to watch movies with. The prices of the movies that are out aren't too bad---maybe a couple or three dollar premium over DVDs--but the selection...I thought the majors were all on board now?
titan wrote:Don't know. All I know is that when I press the PS button on my Sixaxis (or bluray remote, for that matter), the unit powers on.However, doesn't the PS3 even shutoff Bluetooth when its powered off?