Hello Martin On 30 Apr 2012, at 17:01, Martin McCormick <[email protected]> wrote:
• I just read the April-May "Sound and Vision" magazine yesterday and they mentioned 7.1, 9.1 and 11.1 surround-sound systems. I doubt that there is much media available with more than 5.1 or 7.1 discrete channels. That was also my brother's comment. He said that currently even a 7.1 system may be a waste of money. So I'll go with that advice I think and, when we are ready, we'll try and find a system which will work for us. On one of our HD recorders we were astonished to discover that there is only scart (RGB and composite) video connectivity. There is component video available on our TV but none of our other devices support that either. On the HD recorder which Gordon bought himself a few years back, there are 2 HDMI I/O connectors. Well; I think they are I/O, but possibly they may be only outputs. Our Sky Digital box also has a lot of connectivity options which are, we think, disabled currently. For instance, there are 2 type A USB connectors which we are lead to believe are intended to allow the use of an external hard drive; but when we tried one it wasn't seen. There is also a SATA connector in the same state, along with an RJ45 Ethernet connector. Amstrad won't provide any information on these extra connectors, neither will Sky. So it looks as though those are either there to future-proof the hardware or else they are used by different digital satellite providers with their own firmware. Oh, and I forgot to mention that there's also an RJ11 telephone line input. But for reasons of practicality and also because I don't trust Sky not to use my box to make telephone calls at my expense, (as happened a few years back here in the UK), I refuse to entertain the Sky demands that the box be connected to a telephone line. Lynne ======================================= The Techno-Chat E-Mail forum is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free To modify your subscription options, please visit for forum's dedicated web pages located at http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/techno-chat You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Techno-Chat group at either of the following websites: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/techno-chat/index.html Or: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]> you may also subscribe to this list via RSS. The feed is at: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> ---------------------------------------
