The "Official" TX-NR708 Owners Thread - Page 40

Nice, thanks for the reply. Im excited to change up what I have been use to for the last 19 years. Not receiver but Brand.

I recently purchased and set up my first receiver: TX-NR708. I'm very, very happy, but also a newbie and am always working out issues (it's a learning experience).

One thing I need to learn, is in setting up my Harmony One (also new) to recover some of the functions from the 708. For example, when I hook my iPhone to the USB port, and select "Play Digital Music" (or whatever I named it), it all sets up accordingly now (TV on, to browse via TV menu), receiver powered and on net/usb input, and it "wakes up" my phone and browses to the top of my music files on it.

I've mapped some of the standard buttons that weren't mapped (such as the left, right, up, down arrows and the OK button) to navigate the music. I still can't figure one function out, though. How do I go up a menu using the Harmony One via the iPhone music listing on screen? I've tried many options and none seem to work. I'm trying to map it to the "go back" cicular button.

My version is also listed as 1041-0800-0010-2103, and when I tried to update via network it said that it was the most current version.

The firmware update document lists three firmware release dates (11/10/10, 10/27/2010 & 10/1/2010) but no version numbers. I can't see anyway to relate the firmware version listed by the receiver to the dates.

There may be discrete codes that would let you do this directly (without using the Harmony One sequences). You can find a list on RemoteCentral. Pick the ones you want and send a request to Logitech support (with the file) asking them to add the commands to the TX-NR708 device database. They'll take the pronto codes in the spreadsheet and convert them.

Hartlenb, thanks for the response. Nice to know I have the most current firmware............at least for now.

Dick

I believe the "Guide/top menu" button on the onkyo remote does this... you may need to have the Harmony "learn" it while your receiver is in usb/net mode.

Amazon has it at a good price but I wish it would come down closer to the upcoming 609 so I would feel better on pulling the trigger in it.

Eric,

You know, one of my friends wanted to wait "a couple more months" for the new models to come out to drop the prices of the older models.

I was previously looking at the 608 for $380 on Amazon, but pulled the trigger on the 708 for $200 more at the time because I was tired of trying to figure out what to do.

I'm an AV receiver newbie like no tomorrow, and my wife & I are enjoying our decision to purchase immensely. Tonight, I was watching a new (or at least new to me) show called Camelot. My wife looked at each other and grinned when Merlin was leading Arthur through the ruins of Camelot and the sound of water was dripping....from behind us.

Little things like this keep us eager to learn more. I suppose tomorrow (all day on school work) I will have to figure out how to make the remote learn this command these guys are trying to teach me for my music playing to go up a directory.

Thanks for the help, folks.

Figured it out. It's in the standard ones, it's Net/USBReturn.

Now, I can't get my Slingbox PVR-922's "Info" button to work. Unfortunately, it won't "learn" the command (I think cause the remote for PVR-922 is RF?) either.

That's really gonna suck.

Yeah, the Onkyo remote has differrent commands for some buttons, depending on which receiver input you are on. The Net/USB commands use different IR codes on the same buttons.


I'm not too familiar with the Slingbox, but I believe they have a menu option in the setup to "enable IR"?

This is partially true. The Slingbox itself will accept IR commands when you set it up via the menu. The remote itself is RF only, however.

There is a more recent version posted earlier in this thread. http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showt...1#post19780981

Thanks for the pointer... The file doesn't have a TX-NR708 column. Is the TX-SR708 column a typo?

Any chance anyone here has already sent this file into Logitech to update the Harmony ONE codes?

The codes are the same across models... the columns just confirm compatibility. Just about anything that works for the 808 will work for the 708.

Support for the 708 is stated on the cover worksheet.

I just updated and it says Complete but I cant get it to do anything now !

Well folks, I had the 708 for less then 24hrs and have decided to return it and keep the Denon 2309CI , I have had for 2 years. My reasons ?
The only thing it did that my Denon could'nt do that I cared about was Net radio and USB connection. Ya those two features are great but not worth $610 bucks. Another thing that I notice was the Toslink sound via Dirctv would cut out about every 2 min. It sounded grate and is very pretty to look at ( panel display) compared to the 2309CI. In the end I just felt buyers remorse for spending that kind of cash when I dint really need to. Now If I had a receiver older then 4 years or a defected receiver this would be a solid contender.
Thanks for the advise through out this thread.

This has probably been answered before, but does the 708 have the image degradation when the OSD is enabled like the 608 was said to have?

have the 708 when I plug in harddrive via front usb none of my mkv files show up Why? have latest firmware...please help.

The 708 is an audio device.

The listing of supported file formats starts on page 63 in the manual.

Ok I see no mkv...I guess I will go through my awful piece of junk samsung 4600 blueray player...wish I knew how to have audio with 708 when i go through my samsung PN50C550 TV...hooked up with hdmi...do I have to use an optical cable from tv out to in on 708?

Dude, you're not listening. Matroska file containers are for VIDEO and the 708 only plays AUDIO.

SO yes, use your BD player. So plug a HDMI cable from the BD into the 708 and then a HDMI from the 708 into the C550. It will work fine, that's how I do it.

Or run an optic cable from the C550 to the TV/CD in on the 708 if you want to play your movies directly on the C550 but this is grotty but will work.

Make sense?

Will the zone 2 pre-outs work with wireless speakers? I am wanting to setup wireless speakers on my patio. Also what source will I be able to output to the wireless speakers?

Zone 2 will only output analogue sources.

And network/streaming sources.

Any responses on my OSD/image degradation question above? Honestly, the couple of mentions of the image/osd issues are the only thing keeping me from buying the 708. I'd consider the 609, but I'd rather not loose MultEQ.

In order to use Zone 2 and my wireless speakers from my HTPC how will I have to connect the 708 to my HTPC? I understand that it will be not be digital so I cannot use an optical connection. Will I need a separate sound card?

I think the Pioneer Elite VSX-31 and 32 may output digital inputs to Zone 2, but not sure on that. Other than that, I'm heavily leaning toward getting the Onkyo 270, or waiting for the 609, both now under $500.

In order to hook up a HTPC you would need analog outputs from it--you could do it with a mini-jack and a Y connection to some RCA cables. Just be warned that this could be a bit noisy, but if it's zone 2 you might not notice. Another solution would be to get a decent USB sound card and use it as a sound output device, if there is a way to output digital at the same time. My Turtle Beach does both through the same jack.

I haven't built my HTPC yet, but I'm going to use an old XBOX, which allows you to do analog and digital at the same time. However, with a networked receiver like this one, will you even really need it? Seems it can play about anything audio-related natively. Video is another story.

Someone confirmed that Internet audio plays through Zone 2--that's what I wanted to know. I assume HD-Radio would as well?

I would also like info on the video degradation problem.

I don't want to junk up this thread anymore with my question, but has anyone noticed or measured any image degradation with the OSD enabled? Is that a real issue, or just FUD?

I don't think there's any real issue of significance with regard to the OSD. I haven't observed it anyway, but I mainly use the 3008/5008. In the 260, 270, 608, 708, 808, and 1008 receivers I've set up for other people, I haven't noticed any degradation with any type of source and I always leave the OSD turned on. The 260 through 1008 receivers all use the same Faroudja video processor. Of course, make sure to optimize the settings for your setup, e.g., I prefer to turn off all noise reduction, edge enhancement, and leave all the other settings at off or default I think. The Faroudja chips deinterlace and scale well-enough, in my opinion, but I'm definitely not a fan of their noise reduction or edge enhancement implementation, but then I'm comparing to the Reon-VX in the 3008 and 5008 which are just about the best video processors out there.

If you feel there's any issue, it's a simple thing to completely disable the Faroudja chip and all other video processing by the receiver.