Sherwood RD-6513 - Hunk-o-JUNK!

[Patrick_Wolf]

Pioneer To The Rescue!

200 bucks gets you HDMI audio processing! Welcome to the VSX-519V-K. Oorah!

Unfortunetly that reciever wasn't available until shortly after Joeteck's friend made his purchase.

 

[Lordoftherings]

My sig? Where did it go?

Que?

Yeah! That's very stange, isn't?

Well, to compensate: * Substantial Evidence *

And: * Extreme Clarity in Obscure Darkness *

Bob

 

[Adam]

If you're actually wondering why your signature isn't shown in that one post, it's probably because you deselected "Show my signature" in the "Miscellaneous Options" portion of the "Additional Options" shown when you create a post (those are below the white text box that you type in).

For example, my signature isn't showing in this post.

 

[Lordoftherings]

Ty

Thanks Adam, I must have push the wrong button by mistake, that'll explain.
Makes lot of sense. Where should I send you the cheque?

Bob

P.S. Let see if this one show my sig? Yes it does. Cool.
But how come nobody congratulated me yet about my sig?

 

[Adam]

No worries!

But how come nobody congratulated me yet about my sig?

I haven't been keeping up with things all that well this week (work's been hectic), so maybe I missed something - why would we congratulate you on your sig?

Oh, heck with it - congratulations!!!

 

[Lordoftherings]

Why not? If I chose that signature its because I liked it.
And that will be kind of akward to congratulate myself, isn't?

Thanks Adam for the nice compliment. And don't work too hard.

 

[Adam]

What does your signature quote mean? Is it from a movie or literature?

I'm just curious. Thanks.

 

[jamie2112]

Adam you didn't thank me for my sig either
Jeeze whats your deal.........

 

[Adam]

Adam you didn't thank me for my sig either
Jeeze whats your deal.........

I thanked you (perhaps silently) when you're sig contained those two betties. I may have even did it when you posted your pooch's pic.

 

[Lordoftherings]

What does your signature quote mean? Is it from a movie or literature?

I'm just curious. Thanks.

It's my pure total invention. And it means what it says, you know, you go fishing on a very come lake by a day of sunshine and gentle cool breeze, little birds singing, fishes jumping out of the water; then, suddenly the weather changes for the worst with hurricane winds and gale forces, lightenings, fire in the sky, volcanoes erupting all around you, and then you wish that you had stay home and watch a blu-ray on your home theater system...

 

[corey]

Wow, what an interesting read, this thread and the "Thank you" thread.

What really strikes me, is that maybe a lot of this could have been avoided if someone had just explained to the OP that HDMI came about not to make things better for us, but to implement copy protection. How come, with all the knowledgeable people posting to these threads, no one told him?

And BTW, LordOfTheRings, I share your pain. No one has congratulated me about my sig either. Oh wait, I guess that's just because I don't have one....

 

[Lordoftherings]

Aloha Corey,

Glad you enjoy reading this thread, there are many more very rewarding and educational threads just like this one.

As for HDMI problems, we try to conceal it. But it should be resolved pretty soon with the new arrival of version 1.4!

So, we remain very positive with our OPs.

I also think that you should create your own distinctive signature, so we know how smart you are.

Be careful with that surf board. And watch out for those giant waves too.

Bob

 

[bandphan]

I cant believe that their are 6 pages now And I cant belive its not butter

 

[Joeteck]

Yes, this has definitely has become an interesting thread to say the least.

What I've learned:

Two types of HDMI receivers

HDMI switching;

Glorified HDMI switcher control with 5.1 only on the Optical and coaxial inputs, still need to use analog video inputs.

and

HDMI repeating;

Allowing you to enjoy what HDMI is all about. allowing you to enter the digital world with HDMI.

Never knew there were a difference, since I always buy higher end equipment and took it for granted.

 

[Joeteck]

I'm just going to say that the Sherwood is a POS and those receivers which don't process ANY audio on the HDMI inputs are equally POS worthy products.

There is no call for any manufacturer to not make it 100% clear that their AUDIO/video receiver does not actually handle AUDIO over a audio input cable which the receiver supports.

There are several different versions of 'switching' which are used to describe this lack of feature within an A/V receiver and even I'm confused as to which one specifically says "This receiver can't process audio over HDMI, so you must make an additional audio connection from HDMI video sources if you want the receiver to reproduce audio."

See, now that sentence I understood, but it seems like that is buried on instruction manauals (Page 38, at the bottom).

I understand not only how this could frustrate someone, but how they could read "A/V receiver - SUPPORTS HDMI SWITCHING!" as a 'feature' integral to a audio receiver, which means that audio recevier switches to that HDMI cable, and process the audio just as it switches RCA audio, Coax audio, and optical audio.

When a standard supported feature (audio on HDMI) is not supported, I am in full agreement that manufacturers are skirting the edge of terminology to make their lack of audio processing over HDMI perfectly clear to consumers and are, in fact, using the lack of knowledge of consumers to sell them a product which fails to deliver what is expected on a regular basis.

Kudos! I agree, POS product. Hopefully more people will make it clear that these types of products should not be supported, or delivered to consumers without far more clearly stated specifications.

Thanks for supporting and agreeing with me on this... Thank goodness someone else see's the confusion.....! Just got around to reading the rest of the posts in here... some of them are more colorful than mine....