This is a longish story so please bare with me. I decided to unpack the JBL system last night because I should check and see if it works. I wanted to use the TCL display that came with the trailer. I brought the 40" TCL to my basement and leaned it on the back of the couch. I started looking for the remote and couldnt find it. Looked everywhere too. I either lost it or its still at the trailer. What to do... I thought I would need to buy another Logitech remote when it dawned me that I already have a spare remote. I bought a Harmony 665 while it was on sale for $40 Cdn new to eventually replace a used Harmony 650 that I picked up several years ago but some of the buttons are starting to go; needing multiple presses to make it work. The 650 will become my trailer remote and the 665 is now in active duty for my 2nd system. I copied the remote functions from old to new using Logitech's Harmony software. It copies everything over EXCEPT for the screen buttons for each programmed function. It took me 90 minutes to get the 665 to where the old 650 was. Perfect!! Now I can proceed to repurpose the 650 for the TCL display, JBL system, and an old Sony BDP-S360. It took all of 5 minutes to do becuase I just wanted to test basic functionality.
I unpack the JBL, dig out the old Sony and connect everything up. I inserted Hancock, a DVD into the Sony but it wouldnt load. I tried Hanzel and Grettle and even another BluRay but none of them loaded. The Sony finally died. It didnt owe me anything.
I dug up an old Panasonic BP -B30 bluray player which was replaced with an Oppo; both of which I bought used.at a Thrift store for about $20 each. I run backup stairs and reprogram the remote and finally get to test the system... (part 2 will come in a couple of hours...have a meeting to run too.)