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shmokes:
The Harmony remote solves that problem gracefully enough. While it's a slightly less elegant solution since there's sometimes a slight lag waiting for input changes when everything's powering on initially, or every now and then a command gets missed by one component or another and I have to hit the help button to resend the command, it's still a better solution than replacing what is already a very good receiver. Plus, even when I do eventually replace my receiver I'll still be using the Harmony since it is guaranteed to be an astronomically better remote than whatever my new receiver ships with.

HaRuMaN:
My Onkyo remote (came with the receiver) worked with every component I have (minus the PS3, damn bluetooth!) and took about 10 minutes total to setup.  :dunno

shmokes:

--- Quote from: pinballjim on February 21, 2012, 02:02:51 pm ---
Then why not patch the hole you made too high and drop the exit down?


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Lack of gumption, mainly.

Samstag:
I'm going to be using one of these to hide my cables.  It has an IR repeater port so I can hide all my components in a closet.

I have an old Harmony 550 remote that simplifies all the switching going on behind the scenes.

pmowry:
Wow, This thread took an interesting turn.


--- Quote from: Samstag on February 20, 2012, 04:37:08 pm ---On the left side of the Amazon screen find the "seller" group and check amazon.com to filter out 3rd party sellers.  If you want some of the best info on whether a TV is good or not browse avsforum.com.

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Thanks,  Can't believe I missed that Seller Tag.  It sure helps to clear out all the used items and get a better read on prices.  I tend to keep things forever.  This will be replacing a 31" CRT I've had for 16 years.  So I tend to go for bang for the buck.  The reason I'm looking now is spiff I received from work in the form of gift cards to Amazon.  So I don't have much of an option on vendor :(


--- Quote from: HaRuMaN on February 21, 2012, 12:20:18 pm ---Just buy a good receiver that has HDMI switching / upscaling, run one HDMI cable to the TV, and done. 

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I have a surround sound receiver with HDMI ports that I've never tried using (no HDMI TV yet).  I was just planing on feeding it audio from the TV with an optical cable.  I was concerned about the audio being ahead of the video. Does that usually not happen?

  I'm in a rent house, but the policeman that owns the place had all the cables in place and used plates like skmokes.  But if I had to do it myself in a rental I would have used a plastic conduit on the outside of the wall. #1 because of repairs when I leave, but also it is an outside wall.



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