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The Home Theater Showcase Thread
Posted By Austruck
I ended up getting a refurb Roku 3 (one of the...

I ended up getting a refurb Roku 3 (one of the models that actually works with the Xfinity streaming app right now), and it has those earbuds in the remote. Works great if I want to watch something...
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The Home Theater Showcase Thread
Posted By Austruck
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All that's missing is a bare light bulb overhead and someone zip-tied to that chair. :)
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The Home Theater Showcase Thread
Posted By Austruck
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Sedai, we have three Rokus of various incarnations around the house and love them. What's with the earbuds in the remote, though? How well does that work?
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The Home Theater Showcase Thread
Posted By Austruck
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Still, as a customer of a new set, if you get it home and you just don't LIKE it, won't most stores let you return it within X amount of days? Just a sort of "Wasn't what I expected" sort of thing? ...
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The Home Theater Showcase Thread
Posted By Austruck
True ... but I purposely needed a smaller TV (no...

True ... but I purposely needed a smaller TV (no bigger than 15") to fit in the tiny corner of my L-shaped desk in my office. Could never have fit a TV that big in that corner.
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The Home Theater Showcase Thread
Posted By Austruck
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You go, boy.

I really dislike customer service runarounds like that. Shame on that guy for not sticking around to see if his "fix" actually fixed anything. I don't know whether to hope you get...
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The Home Theater Showcase Thread
Posted By Austruck
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Seds, I literally gave it back to my son without having finished it (Heavy Rain) because it was more like an interactive movie and never felt like a game. It was entirely linear (ugh) and, despite...
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Posted By Austruck
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Seds, I hear you! I have a little HDTV in my office (15"), which I got for about $100 right after Christmas, just so I could borrow my son's PS3 to play Heavy Rain -- which required an HDMI cable and...
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Posted By Austruck
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(sigh) My parents have two HDTVs now and keep giving us their old CRTs every time they upgrade. And their "old" TVs are fairly new and in great shape so we're using them and would feel guilty to...
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Posted By Austruck
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John, was that thing a real bear to program properly? That's my one issue with combo/universal remotes -- getting them to work with everything and have the buttons all mean what they're supposed to...
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The Home Theater Showcase Thread
Posted By Austruck
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Well, keep in mind my hubby also added a few, well, I don't know their official name, but I keep calling them "switcher boxes" into which you can plug other things. I know he "upgraded" all our...
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The Home Theater Showcase Thread
Posted By Austruck
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John, not sure what you mean about getting surround sound from your cable. We do get the sound through the home theater speakers from any device we have hooked up: cable box, DVR, DVD players, VCR......
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Posted By Austruck
P.S. I must admit ... I disliked Batman Begins...

P.S. I must admit ... I disliked Batman Begins the first time I saw it (on HBO a while ago). Just didn't strike me right. I'm watching it again now with the sound system, and it's a LOT more fun with...
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Posted By Austruck
Ours felt like Christmas morning. Hubby's working...

Ours felt like Christmas morning. Hubby's working overnight shifts, so on his night off he stays up. He'd gone out shopping and came home with this around 1 a.m. just as I was going to bed. When I...
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Posted By Austruck
We have nothing to compare ours to, either, so...

We have nothing to compare ours to, either, so we're having a great time with it. Perfect timing with all the horror movies on too. The girls are still getting used to hearing "things" sneak up...
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The Home Theater Showcase Thread
Posted By Austruck
I see a bunch of us have the same Motorolla dual...

I see a bunch of us have the same Motorolla dual drive DVR cable box. We love it! I'm so hooked on DVR now.

I'm approaching this thread from a different angle: how fun the setup is COMPARED TO...