audiophile/videophile Here To Stay discussion thread

[JTK]

Originally Posted by GoldenRedux

I currently have a 6.1 setup, but for my Panasonic, there is no way to make the speaker settings for 6.1 using the analogue outs, it can only be set for 5.1 or 7.1. My receiver has two sets of analogue multichannel inputs, a 5.1 and a 7.1 and I use them both plus I have a Zektor analogue multichannel 5.1 3x1 switcher, but space considerations also keep me from using a 7.1 configuration. I wish Panasonic had allowed for a 6.1 setting.

I just haven't felt a fire under my ass at all about 7.1. I don't feel like I've ever seen it even supported that much with regular DVD's.

I'll probably stick with 5.1 for a pretty long time.


I'm looking at this Anthem D2 that Rob was talking about. It's pretty impressive, although I see it's currently HDMI 1.1.

I see a lot of buzz about this thing. Is it upgradeable to HDMI 1.3 and the rest of it?

I see that it runs around $6500.

I see that it's basically a combined Gennum VXP video processor combined with a great pre/pro.

You can kill a lot of birds with one stone with this thing. Impressive, but probably overkill for a lot of us. If it's upgradeable to HDMI 1.3 and some other things, then it becomes that much more compelling.