Well we have been wanting to get a new Receiver. Our old Sony Receiver has kinda been showing a bit of age (HDMI 1.2, old gen DTS and Dolby) so we finally gave in and replaced the receiver in the Home Theater with a Onkyo TX-SR806! I was always one to scoff THX since we see tons of crappy stuff in the PC world bearing the THX mark but no longer. The sound is JUST AMAZING! Hooking the back up is better than any of the other AV Receivers I have dealt with. The array of speaker connections was amazingly spacious (considering there were 9 outputs - 7 speakers and 2 Zone B outputs). Also since this has a Repeating HDMI 1.3a inputs at the back, there were only 2 HDMI cables going in (PS3 aka DVD, and our Satellite HD Receiver) and on HDMI out to our Aquos (only serves as a monitor). Finally got rid of the Toslink Optical cables. Hooking up our 7.1 setup wasn't too bad. Though I dreaded the loathsome THX Configuration (speaker height, angle, distance, etc etc), I was pleasantly surprised that this unit had an Automated setup via Audyssey. The other AV Receivers I have set up did use mics but they were not completely automatic. We had the mic set up at all 6 sitting areas and it completely set everything up everything. I didn't have to fiddle with anything. Had it all configured for THX in a few minutes. All I had to do was move the mic to the next sitting position and hit next and it beamed sounds through all 8 speakers. Also one of the most appreciated things I have for this AV Receiver is the Onscreen GUI. No more scrolling line by line on the Receiver's display! Just tinker around on the TV. Now that there was some musical AV Receivers being played around (old Sony going into the parental's bedroom), I just inherited a Denon Receiver for my own bedroom. Now I need a sub...
got something today ooh, and some other stuff i got recently..forgot to post (meh, the IS..fails imo..can't rma it *had to rma my pda due to touchscreen malfunction*)
I just found out how to hook up my Z-680's sub to the A/V Receiver (now all of my stuff is hooked up the the Sony STR-DG800)! The sattelites use normal speaker wire so thats no biggie. The sub however, is connected through the control pod. So what I did was I took a RCA cable and hooked it up to the Receiver's Pre Out Subwoofer and then hooked it on the green input on the pod (using a gold RCA to mini plug converter) and presto. Active subwoofer for my setup. Should keep me happy as I save up for some Paradigms... They sound a LOT better through the receiver. PC is connected via Optical Toslink (SPDIF Out) from my X-Fi's panel to the receiver.
Just bought 1TB WD Home HDD, it's awesome. And now I realized that 1) Normal SATA wont fit into e-sata 2) Fat32 cannot support a single file size larger than 4GB
I'm having the same problem. I'm trying to copy a 4GB file into PS3, but PS3 will only see FAT32 USB drives...
from some reading, someone success doing so by using TVersity - Home source: GameSpot Forums - PlayStation 3 - PS3 Hard Drive...FAT32---> NTFS? by carterhc
