Recent content by Tim Dawson

I've been using the Universal Remote Control remotes . . . They pretty much crush the Harmony line in terms of features and function, but are more work to configure.

And, apparently, as is typical these days, no effort whatsoever to open source the devices for others to support if desired. Yet another reason that "cloud based" equates to "you don't own it".

The issue was that the software for the 1100 had no dicumented mechanism for adding things manually that I recall - I believe that it was a different package than the 890 as such, being full touch screen.

Good for you! All that means is that your system is likely a lot simpler with a lot less dependencies than mine was at the time (and the problem was in power *up*, not power down. The sequence was something like: Power on projector Power on audio rack Power on surround processor Power on...

As I said, it's been a while, so I'm not 100% . . . I just know that no matter what I did, it kept losing sync with the system, so was replaced with a far more versatile product (URC). That, and my wife kept killing screens (replaced it 2 or 3x iirc).

Some devices will not respond to commands until after they finish coming up, and with the Harmony, it was near impossible to get it to wait and not just throw commands into a deaf device, leaving the system in an unknown/incorrect state.(As I recall, input select on my projector was a big one...

I had one of those, an I had one of those, and it absooutely would not work well with my Dish network Joeys . . . intermittent, stuttery, excess or missed commands sent (while everything else worked) and support just stuck thier head in the sand . . . . that, and the incredibly non-flexible...

I would rerun the test using the same mic for both, and without moving it. Sure, cal may not be there, but typically (at least with a good mic) those factors are not drastic, and I would expect to see the same thing. It's possible that the mic was just in a null, directional, or some other...

I have both, but again, you seem to be missing the key point. Sure, CD to DVD to BluRay, etc. have been improvements, but they don't carry the latest "Make everything HD!" naming hype (There are even sunglasses sold as "HD") . . . Dynamic range, freq response, etc. are all just functions of...

If it's beyond the resolution of human hearing, it's marketing spew, nothing more . . .

And some would say that it means that the marketing doofs had too much free time on thier hards . . . . :-)

I first thought that this was asking about firmware, and that response would be "whenever a new release comes out" As far as replacement, that would be "When it dies, degrades, or I see a huge enough difference old to new to call to me". I am not one of those lemmings who always charges to the...

Nope. More typically, a lot of the nonsense features, incomprehensible UI, and lack of serviceability has *prevented* me from considering a lot of newer stuff.

Why does it always seem that the complete and total turds end up buying (and typically destroying) ledgendary brands? Yeah, Bose is in trouble . . . . Not selling complete garbage might be the solution to that . . . not dragging others under with them!

Hmm . . . Tough call. Not judging by audio, just overall favorites (based mostly on what I rewatch): 2001 A Space Odyssey Blazing Saddles The Wall (odd, but a masterpiece of animation) Office Space Forbidden Planet Apollo 13 Some kind of wonderful (Many others that don't come to mind at the...