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I'm looking for a device that plays standard and Blu-Ray DVD's but also supports univeral plug and play retrieval of video (.avi, etc.), music and still pictures (.jpeg). I see network connectivity on most players these day, but they seem to only support various commercial services (Netflix...

I wired 4 sets of remote speaker pairs with pairs of 14/2 (12/2 on the long runs). Each had a volume control. I found it more convenient to just buy one wire on a big spool of two conductor (single pair) and just pull two cables to from wall plate to attic to volume control for each speaker...

Yes, FLAC or any other lossless format support would really be handy, presumeably if they do it on Z7, we'll get it on the RX-V3900 too.

Thanks! I did move the microphone to a better spot and with a few trials got the phasing OK. I was a bit confused for a bit when all 5 speakers (front l/r, center and surround l/r) were all out of phase! Wonder what the reference is? Anyway, my friend is happy now and it sounds OK...

I'm helping a friend do auto setup of an AVR-589 with Boston Speakers (The Denon DHT-589BC HT in a box). The auto set up reported a phase problem on two of the speakers. One appeared OK the other not, but I reversed them both. Then I re-ran the setup and found a different speaker with a phase...

mp3 is actually decent if you create the files with high (or variable) bit rate and set all of the parameters in your ripping software to their best settings. As may be said elsewhere, mp3 is a lossy compression format, i.e. some information will be lost and the recreated play back may not be...

Sounds like you might be ready for bit-torrent... :)

Well said, point taken. I'll probably continue to tweak, but backing off and listening to more varied content is probably a sensible approach. Thanks.

Well, I'm up to plus +6 dB on the surrounds to get any sense of surround. Yes, I do have the Radio Shack digital SPL. What do you suggest I check? I just confirmed with test tones that the surrounds are 6 dB higher than the fronts when I use straight, so it all seems right. I don't seem to...

The straight alone still is very front centric, so I must have been getting some enhancement for the surround from my Sony DSP. Pure Direct seems to kill the picture (I only use component video), even though the Pure Direct setting is Audio and not Audio + Video, don't understand that. I...

Agreed, some of the recommendations are way off, but I accept that for the movies I never would have tried that have turned out to be great!

I've had my RX-V3900 for about six weeks now and am very happy with the features, capabilities and sound quality when I listen to music. The FM tuner is excellent and I love being able to access my music server, internet radio and Sirius Internet all from one AVR. This replaced a Sony STR-DE845...

I guess I don't have any experience with BB other than going to the store, but I love Netflix cuz: 1. Movies come fast, always 1 day return, 1 day to get the new movie. 2. I find a lot of interesting flicks from the recommendations based on my ratings. 3. I love the Roku Netflix box, free on...

I've had good luck with http://free.avg.com/. A lot of the viruses now seem to block access to the av sites, so if your browser can't find free.avg.com, then you may already be infected with one of those. In that case, you can get avg free from cnet (I had to do that on a badly infected...

As mentioned above, 8 ohms is 8 ohms. This is the DC impedance of the speaker and will be the same which ever polarity you hook up the ohm meter. Just to be back up my statement with a measurement, I put my DMM on my Polk RT-800i (two way speaker, one tweeter, two low range speakers) and...

That's a huge savings, certainly worth a try. The connectors I used have now been discontinued by Ideal, but on a quick web search I found the Ideal OmniCONN F connectors for RG6 Quad at $0.60 a piece in the 50 pack. These are for use with the same crimp tool, so hopefully the Monoprice unit...

I wired about 12 coax drops in my small single story home configured as a star from a distribution point in my attic using about 500 feet of RG6-QS. I have had great results delivering cable (including internet), UHF antenna for OTA HD and FM antenna (antennas in the attic) via the QS. (I...

Yes, it was plug and play, like I said, worked with all my browsers. Assuming you plugged receiver and PC into the LAN ports on your Linksys and they were both configured using dhcp from the linksys and had their IP's on the same subnet, then I agree it is time to contact Yamaha and/or your dealer.

That is indeed strange, sure sounds like there is a firewall or something blocking on some port. I don't know that the connection uses different ports after the initial loading files. The browser goes through three screens, "Loading Files", "Loading", and "Loading System Settings", so it...

Epilogue IMHO, this is a flaw in the RX-V3900 that Yamaha should really fix. I found a "work around the problem" for most of my use, but not completely. Acquiring lock on the digital audio stream or switching between sources should not output an unwanted noise to a speaker (it usually occurs in...