Posts by BrianJohns

I'm looking for a sound bar that provides an on-screen display on my TV of the volume level. Seems like such a simple thing -- but I feel like I'm searching for the Holy Grail! I have a Samsung un55b7100 TV and no current audio system...

Quote: Originally posted by chinadog which lead me to the solution: http://home.comcast.net/~apastuszak/ which will supposedly fix the problem. I don't know IF I'll have this problem, but I assume so. So, for those folks...

Does anyone have a PDF of the Mintek DVD-1600 manual? Mintek's web site says it's here: http://mintekdigital.com/dvd1600.htm but when you click on the link, the 1600 is not one of the listed manuals. My first email to Mintek...

I've found the same thing to be true with my Dish Network receivers and my Replay 5040. Replay doesn't (apparently) understand anything but Remote Address #1. In my case where I have more than one receiver in a room, I just changed the...

Whoa!! I just upgraded my satellite system to receive my locals and in the process went through the list of all Dish channels I receive, wrote them down, then went through the "Add/Remove Channels" list on my Replay...

Quote: Originally posted by skro Anybody have any new info regarding this problem? At least one other member of this forum has recently had his Kenwood receiver fixed, for free, and it was also out of warranty. Quote: Originally...

Quote: Originally posted by j.m. Houston, we have a problem. This duplicate ISN problem may be MUCH more widespread than previously thought. What a SNAFU! BrianJohns, the good news is that sfhub and I have come up with...

My Replay 5040 keeps intermittently failing the IVS test and I'm trying to pin down the problem. A Net Connect seems to solve the problem temporarily, but nothing I've found has solved the problem for more than a day or so. Because of...

I love my 53UWX10B TV, but it does one thing that's driving me crazy. When watching a letterboxed, wide screen movie, the Hitachi has four aspect modes: Normal, Full, Fill, and the useless "Smooth Wide". The problem is,...

Quote: Originally posted by gweempose I have never understood why the "return to live" button doesn't take you to live TV no matter what you are watching. Wouldn't this be logical? AMEN TO THAT! I've...