JOHN,
How can you manage all these magical toys. Now, before I disappear
into the fields where heavenly music plays without my plugging in
anything, I will HAVE to SEE and HEAR what you are talking about. And
do I ever have questions !!!!!
Yes, you hear me right. You will have to send a limousine!!
Do you actually have a job besides trying out all these things? Does
your wife still have room on the kitchen or living room table? I with
my four computers and iPhone and a small tv not connected to anything
by Insight, several printers and a scanner free standing, I just about
used our house up.( It is a mall place, considering where I live) My
cabinets are filled with cords and plugs and what not, most of them I
cannot identify anymore----how in the world do you do, hear, see and
keep up with it all? Yes, I need to see your contraptions in your
home museum. It must be something -- and, by the way--- what is a blue
ray? I only know blue jays - even the sound they make. I do not know
whether blue ray makes a sound, too. Come on, deliver to the lover of
all these gadgets, but not in the know what they are and do!!!
Maybe you can even arrange a bus tour for us? And I am NOT kidding.
Marta
On Aug 6, 2010, at 11:31 AM, John Robinson wrote:
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
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