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A2H GO
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16th Mar 12 at 20:54   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

How much would you say this is worth?

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=120878437475&ssPageName=ADME:X:RTQ:GB:1123#ht_698wt_922
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17th Mar 12 at 09:04   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

A hell of a lot more than £55 that's for sure
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17th Mar 12 at 09:16   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

Hmmm, wonder if you can buy the speaker covers separately.
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17th Mar 12 at 10:06   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

to be fair mate, you could probably do it yourself?
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17th Mar 12 at 14:30   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

Been and collected, gave him £100 for it.

Will sell the Bose sounddock which never gets used.
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17th Mar 12 at 14:33   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

Nice

There's loads of setup controls and stuff to faff about with if you like doing that kinda stuff
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17th Mar 12 at 17:37   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

Just had a go, haven't a clue what I'm doing. Literally just stuck and optical cable from the Onkyo to the back of the TV and left it at that.

[Edited on 17-03-2012 by A2H GO]
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20th Mar 12 at 19:56   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

Do you find when running Sky/Xbox through the Onkyo and back to the TV that the picture isn't as good?

Straight to the TV:



Through the Onkyo:



You can see the bright green squares on the left look more of a dull yellow, the white writing in the menus at the top is duller and doesn't stand out as much and it overall looks more 'dull' and less vibrant.

Sky is the same

Direct to TV;



Through the Onkyo:



You can see the colours are more washed out when going through the Onkyo....
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20th Mar 12 at 20:52   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

i haven't really noticed, just wired it all up and used it.

Can you adjust the colour/brightness on the onkyo somewhere or have you tried that?
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Nah there are no picture settings on the Onkyo at all. TBH I only noticed because I put xbox on and noticed COD didn't look right so switched the HDMI from the Onkyo to the TV and it was night and day.

When you go on brightness settings on MW3 the top box that says 'Barely Visible' is clearly visible when through the TV because I have it set to quite a high brightness whereas through the Onkyo you can't read it so there's definitely a difference.
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Are you using a different HDMI port on the TV for the Onkyo?
It's very likely that your TV has different image settings depending on input. Might be that you've adjusted the settings for one input channel and not the other?


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quote:
Originally posted by Balling
Are you using a different HDMI port on the TV for the Onkyo?
It's very likely that your TV has different image settings depending on input. Might be that you've adjusted the settings for one input channel and not the other?


This is a good point! I'm using HDMI 1 from the Onkyo and HDMI2 when connecting the components up directly. Didn't realise the Samsung would remember settings based on each HDMI port.
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6th Jan 17 at 09:38   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

UPDATE: Just bought the extra speakers for mine so its now 5.1

Thanks for reading
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3rd Feb 17 at 11:50   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

found this on ebay -

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Onkyo-HTX-22HTX-5-1-surround-system-99p-NO-RESERVE-/122331414610?hash=item1c7b854052:g:kLAAAOSw44BYjjS0

Shame i am so far away so looking at 2.1 now to

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