Mitch Scoggins' Weblog

So, yesterday turned out to be a good day.  I was in Seattle for a couple days for meetings, and got to the airport a bit earlier than expected to fly home.  My boss and I decided it was worth it to pay the $25 to get home a couple hours earlier, so we got an earlier flight.  That flight was delayed for an hour (I was annoyed with that), but I still got home an hour earlier (10:20 instead of 11:20pm).  I found out this morning that my original flight was canceled, so the 1-hour delay doesn’t look so bad now

Anyway, the new home theater receiver we ordered arrived last night (the BluRay arrived last week), and it was the Yamaha RX-V465BL instead of the 463 that we ordered.  The 465 costs about $100 more.  I called the company this morning to see what was up, and they said they were out of the 463 so they gave us a 465 instead – epic win.  It’s got four HDMI inputs instead of two, and does Dolby Tru-HD sound.  Both of those were features I wanted but was not willing to pay an extra $100 for.  I spend 3.5 hours this evening setting up the new home theater, and it’s mostly working.  It’s really complex, but worth learning about ’cause it does all sorts of stuff.

The system included a antenna that I hooked in and ran it through some test cycle where it automatically set-up the surround sound.  That was neato.  The one bad thing was that our existing subwoofer would not work with the new system (it requires a woofer with its own amp) so we are currently sans woofer.  I do have one on order though, so we should have bass again in a week or so (Amazon free shipping is slow).  The remote that comes with the receiver is programmable so it can at least power on the other devices (TV/BluRay) so we might use slightly less remotes.  We are still thinking of getting a good universal remote, but maybe we won’t.

Ok, that’s all for now.  Oh, and if you didn’t understand the title of this post, it means you’re not reading enough Pearls Before Swine.  Check out the strips from Aug 10 & 11, they funny.

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