Can your wife S/O operate your HT?

[Uniquely]

If you died next week (or you found 20 million cash stuffed inside a speaker that you just bought at a yard sale, and decided to run off to Rio with out them; whichever is more preferable/plausible to you) would your wife/husband/SO be able to......



1. Operate your HT equipment without you? You know........ turn everything on and be able to get both video and audio from the device she wanted?

2. If they had to remove everything from the room to paint or redo floors.... would they be able to put everything back together and STILL get to both the audio and video from the device she wanted?

3. Would they be able to tweak the settings to make them sound almost as good as you do, or would they even care as long as it worked?

4. Would they even know how to find out without resorting to the Geek Squad?



My answers

1. Yes.. even if the universal remotes died... she'd still be able to get the indiviual remotes and eventually get everything powered on and on the right inputs to see AND hear what she wanted to.

2. I think she would label everything before she unplugged it and probably do a good job of getting it back together.

3. No.... and she wouldn't even care to try. If she can see it and hear it she'll be thrilled and relieved with that.

4. If she did get really stuck on something, I think she'd do an internet search, but if the information she found only managed to confuse her further; I don't know what she'd do.


I'm totally book marking this forum in my wife's laptop! I'm just going to tell her to look for Beta Man, Ozzman, Prerich, JJ, Hamp, ALL you guys here are great! And if I forgot your name..... you still rock harder than my memory apparently does.

[Blu Titan]

She can't... if she touches things it is always for the worse.

[jsteinhauer]

NOX4!

And when we put the thing together, I suggested she go to the local HT dealer and get a very nice RTI universal remote. On the other hand, she runs the snowblower.

[nbxfan]

Hah...no...even with a Universal Remote that is one touch to turn everything on and set it up properly she can't. Both my parents are the same as well.

[Marine Mike]

I would leave a note behind telling her not to touch anything.

[pacificvibes]

Originally Posted by Marine Mike

I would leave a note behind telling her not to touch anything.

[Blu-Benny]

she can put a movie in and put the tv on the right input. that's about it though!!!

[joelslaw]

1. Yes, but only because I have a Harmony remote (best $60 I've ever spent!)

2-4. No. She could care less about my HT. She would probably sell it all and buy a 19" TV with a built in *gulp* DVD player

[Bizdady]

She prolly wouldnt be able to put it together but she finds her way enough to watch her bds and access my streaming media server for videos/mp3s/pictures.

[ak808]

1) with the logitech harmony yes. Will she be able to reprogram it though? no
2)HAHA in my dreams
3)put it this way, she picked up my radioshack spl meter and said, "what does this control?"
4)well she knows better to call a professional.

[Mensrea69]

NO!!!!!! Our 7yr old what have to explain it to her before we left.

[BruceWayne]

1. Sometimes (I usually get a phone call if I am gone, and I start getting scared) She usually asks me to leave a note explaining how to get everything working.
2. Not at all, she would call someone.
3. No, and probably wouldn't care too.
4. Probably, or just one of my family members to come help so she didn't have to pay for it.

[Uniquely]

Originally Posted by Mensrea69

NO!!!!!! Our 7yr old what have to explain it to her before we left.

We? Who ya takin to Rio with your 20 mill?

[dad2erin]

Originally Posted by joelslaw

1. Yes, but only because I have a Harmony remote (best $60 I've ever spent!)

2-4. No. She could care less about my HT. She would probably sell it all and buy a 19" TV with a built in *gulp* DVD player

Same here mine appreciates it but could care less about it.

But I do not have a harmony remote, she just can figure out how to use it. But most likely would not bother.

[Marine Mike]

Originally Posted by robinandtami

We? Who ya takin to Rio with your 20 mill?

His mistress that will babysitting his 7 year old!

[BACsader]

Well, my girlfriend says "as long as it sounds good and looks good, I'm happy".

So to answer your questions, all of them would be a big fat no. It's so disappointing.

[naturephoto1]

At this point my Girlfriend couldn't do any of these things. With my new Harmony 880 which should arrive shortly I am still not sure what she could do. Then again, I am not sure how much I want to her to be able to use besides the TV by itself.

Rich

[Nameless Evil]

My wife, I love her to death... but when it come to negotiating the remotes of our HT... It's like watching a palsy victim try to perform brain surgery with a pipe wrench.

[fupduk2]

My wife is the smart one!

[Uniquely]

Originally Posted by Nameless Evil

My wife, I love her to death... but when it come to negotiating the remotes of our HT... It's like watching a palsy victim try to perform brain surgery with a pipe wrench.