My new baby..........

you don\'t mind the the HDMI on that unit is busted Raz?

you don\'t mind the the HDMI on that unit is busted Raz?

Huh?

While that is a nice receiver, it\'s HDMI won\'t extract the audio signal, only the video.. in my mind, sort of defeats the purpose of even having HDMI in the first place.  The quotes below are taken from the first 3 user reviews of the Onkyo TX-SR505 from Amazon.com

It cannot extract the audio channels from HDMI. It also cannot do any upconversion or downconversion so you have to wire every possible video source to your TV. The whole reason I bought this thing is it could take HDMI S-Video, and Component inputs and switch them to my TV. I wasn\'t careful enough.

The HDMI circuits in this receiver DO NOT pass the audio portion of the program; they pass only the video portion. This necessitates the use of the analog audio or optical digital audio outputs to provide the audio portion of the program to any connected device (such as a high definition television). Since one of the main reasons for the existence of the HDMI specification is to simplify connectivity, one has to wonder what the engineers (or, more likely, the marketing and accounting department heads) were thinking when they decided to hamper this connection circuitry! While it\'s true that many people may only want to pass the video program portion to a connected monitor, routing the audio through the receiver\'s amplifiers and on to the connected loudspeakers, one should not purchase this receiver thinking that it has full HDMI connectivity, because it doesn\'t. Otherwise, this product represents a very good buy.

This receiver is a joke. Even though it has two HDMI inputs, it won\'t play the audio from those inputs. You need to set up a separate audio input. What\'s the point of having HDMI then?!?

It\'s a budget receiveier. I don\'t expect everything.

As for not passing HDMI audio - doesn\'t really bother me. Optical cables are cheap and I only need two.

[Paul2]

if you don\'t care about lossless and uncompressed multichannels sound quality.  Then optical cable is enough.  Because optical cable doesn\'t support lossless audio codecs mostly because of copy protection.

It seems like only HDMI can carry all the famous audio codecs.  Beside HDMI, there is also firewire.  But I guess that receiver\'s model doesn\'t support audio pass through for HDMI to cut cost.

if you don\'t care about lossless and uncompressed multichannels sound quality.  Then optical cable is enough.  Because optical cable doesn\'t support lossless audio codecs mostly because of copy protection.

It seems like only HDMI can carry all the famous audio codecs.  Beside HDMI, there is also firewire.  But I guess that receiver\'s model doesn\'t support audio pass through for HDMI to cut cost.

I\'m gonna run two front\'s and a center. Sound quality really isn\'t the biggest importance to me and if I do decide to buy a different receiver a year down the road, it\'s no real big loss.
Hell, if TV speakers didn\'t suck so bad, I probably wouldn\'t get anything. As it is, I\'ll pick this up fairly cheap and it\'ll do while we live in this apartment.

TV came in.
Found a Wii at Wal-Mart.
New HD DVD player.
This day friggin\' rocked.

So, I\'m thinking of buying the Onkyo TX-SR505 and a set of 2.1 speakers. I know that receiver is overkill, but it\'s only for right now. When we move into a house, I will upgrade all the speakers.

Any suggestions? I don\'t want to spend a lot, just getting it because it\'s fairly cheap and TV speakers are teh suk!

If you are looking into Onkyo, check out the HTiB systems. You can get the a refurbed SR800 for $289

I\'ve spent so much lately. Need to hold off on ordering more stuff for awhile.

In the last two weeks I\'ve bought.

New TV
TV stand
Wii
Super Mario Galaxy
Eight Scooby - Doo DVDs\'
Feast / The Thing / Scary Movie 4 / 300 /Bourne Idenity / The Hulk / Frighters (HD DVD)
Planet Earth  / Return to house on Haunted Hill (Blu Ray)
Toshiba HD DVD player.
Hdmi Cables

Time to chill out for a bit.

[GmanJoe]

Did you finish WWZ?

What\'s your theory about North Korea? Are there 30 million zeds waiting to crawl out of their bunkers?

Did you finish WWZ?

What\'s your theory about North Korea? Are there 30 million zeds waiting to crawl out of their bunkers?

Not only that.
But I\'ll never go into the ocean again.

So, in summary.

I, welcome our  North Korea zombie overlords.

I, won\'t ever swim again, due to the fact that Lucio Fulci is right - there is zombies at the bottom of the ocean. I don\'t know if they are having battles with sharks, but I know that they are there at that is enough for me.

[GmanJoe]

The chinese submarine story was my favorite. Never thought about a nuclear sub being the best thing to have in a zed infested world.

^ When is that book going to be made into a movie you nerds?

The chinese submarine story was my favorite. Never thought about a nuclear sub being the best thing to have in a zed infested world.

That was also one of my favorites. But for creep factor, I think the opening story of the doctor visiting the village is one of the best in the book.

Least favorite? The female pilot. I wanted her to die before that story was over.