Recent content by Tim Dawson

Still running my DC2's . . . have not found anything yet that justified thencost to change again, and the only problem they ever seem to have is the power supply, which is an off the shelf item that is about $35 and can be changed in less than 10 minutes . . . FWIW . . .

1985 . . . 7+1 speaker config (EV professional stuff) with about 2500 watts of amplification (mixed brands . . . primary being Phase Linear with biamped fronts), 60" Kloss Novabeam and a top end Fosgate surround processor. The desire was a video experiencenthat didn't suck . . . Over time, the...

Of course, it's not like the MSM has ever reported anything accurately or honestly on this topic . . . IE calling it a "Trade war" and then going downhill from there . . . .

It will be interesting to see if this actually affects US studio and crew filming in a remote location. Common sense would say no (at least how I read it). The goal would seem more to discourage the use of foreign resources/crews/etc. and not necessarily locations.

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 . . . . :-)