Since the subject of Bose has been batted around I wanted to mention a new product of theirs, been on the market about a month. It is a home theater system, the V35. I have the home theater systems that they call the 49, for both the upstairs TV and the downstairs as well. In that unit they have a regular DVD player and a way to store your music, but since I use the Mac for music I don't need that feature of the Bose.
That unit did NOT have a BluRay player and many times I would get on their case about this but they never had a definitive answer, well now they do. They have just introduced the V35 home theater, same jewel cube speakers and sub-woofer but boy is the system completely different. First, no music storage, AND no DVD player. As the industry changes so much they have left these features to other devices, and I now think they are right. I just purchased a Samsung 8000 that will play the DVD, BluRay AND 3d, so had Bose finally put out a BluRay now they would be behind with the 3d. So what are the advantages? This system is the coolest, and here is how it works. Plug in the Bose, run ONE cable to the TV, and as soon as you plug in the first component the screen on the TV says "you have installed a new devise, what is this". You choose cable box, or whatever. It walks you through the installation and THEN it ask you to point the device at the Bose (no more codes to look up). It walks you through a few steps with the cable box remote and then says it is recognized and you are done. You then plug in the BluRay, and it says "You have installed a new device, what is this". You select BluRay and go through the same process as before, a few clicks of the remote and now it is recognized. You plug in the Apple TV and the same process, but here I had difficulty due to the very simple remote from Apple. I called Bose and they said there was an update that if I would install that the Apple TV would have NO setup, once you tell the system it is an Apple TV you are done, no remote buttons to push. They send you a thumb drive, you plug it into the front of the Bose, it reads your version and it tells you to remove the drive and install on your computer. (Why they didn't use ethernet I'll never understand). Plugging the drive into your Mac it then goes to the Bose site and without you doing anything it loads the latest version, when done the computer screen says to plug the devise into the Bose (these controls are on the front of the Bose so easy to get to). It downloads the latest and greatest, then installs. Then you unplug the Apple TV, it ask if you are wanting to remove this devise from the list, you say yes and it is now removed. Plug the HDMI cable back in and this time when you choose Apple TV from the list of devices you are installing it says you are done. Now when you use the Bose remote you select your input, and they are shown on the TV screen in a list (very Apple like) and you scroll to the one you want and in a few min. it will load. One caveat, the BluRay 3d players are pushing so much down the pipe that Bose recommends you use the HDMI for video only and then plug a fiber audio from the TV back to the Bose for the sound. Works fantastically. This also means that when you are done using the BluRay you may have to pick up the BluRay remote to get away from it and back to the Bose. That's it, the most simple system I have every seen. I can change from Cable box, BluRay, AppleTV, Am,Fm, all so easily and from one remote. How do folks keep inventing all these magical toys????? John _______________________________________________ MacGroup mailing list [email protected] http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
