Home Theater Blog

This is just a short video in response to a forum posting. Here you can see that the Panasonic’s Viera functionality with the Yamaha receivers with hdmi. I have a cheap little digital cam but I show how you can turn the receiver on via Viera, you can change the volume via Viera and when you turn off the TV it turns off the receiver automatically. FYI, when you turn on the tv and then you go into the Viera interface and select home theater output the receiver automatically picks up on that and changes the receiver to the correct input setting as it is turning on.

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We review Samsung’s first 3D HDTV, the 8000 series. Are DLP HDTVs dead? Can you hear the difference between DTS and Dolby Digital? And the new Blu-ray releases for December 21st, 2010!

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Picking The Right RAID Mode, Roku Gets More Affordable, Steve Jobs: 720p is the New HD! Apple TV 2.0, Plex: Goregous Interface for OS X home theater, Which home theater calibration certificates are worth the money, and the Blu-ray releases for September 7th, 2010.

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