Unfortunately, somehow, My device has swallowed up your response here. So I'll comment from memory on what you said.
Why, oh why? Why does this always happen? It's not a personal issue. We're discussing technology. It isn't an argument, It's a discussion. So let's try to keep that in mind. You still didn't answer the question?ough. You keep telling us what your receiver will do, and that's fine. But so far, I've heard absolutely nothing to make me even question my choice. My bar is actually one of the hi?-end bars to which you refer. When I bought it, I looked at the specs of lots of different bars from lots of manufacturers. I looked at, and dismissed out of hand, a couple of Panasonic systems. I looked at some Prillips bars, Sony, Sanio, and even some lesser specification Samsung. But ultimately, I settled on the one I have now, and I'm more than happy with it. It supports the Samsung "Near-by" connection system, as well as Bluetooth 4.0 technologies, WPS and the new standard of auto-configuration Wi-Fi, (whose name I forget right now), plus, of course, Giganet LAN and Wireless-N. In terms of outputs and inputs, it has dual in and out Tosslink support, plus an Opticle input. I grant you that accessibility could be better regarding internal settings, but there may be an app available to compensate for that, I haven't looked yet. But documentation, I have all of the relevant data here, and yes, I have applied a firmware update to it. That, in actual fact, is quite simple. All you have to do is to put the file on the reot of a USB drive, plug it into the bar and let it do it. From that postt onwards it was totally automated. Regarding network, yes, it's integrated, Although to be totally fair, I don't know whether you can stream from it via Wi-Fi. Certainly you can play content to it, and have it streamed to the tv or to a secondary audio output as described earlier. It is true that an HTML interface would be nice, no dispute at all with that point. I think also that it's important to remember that one man's meat is another man's poison. Your Dennon crearly does what you want it to do for you, and that's as it should be. But I think the term "Better" is a very subjective one. I think that, in my situation, my system suits my needs denn to the ground, and I'm very happy with it. Regarding the Panasonic systems, I'm not sure whccther the talking systems are available outside of the UK. Maybe they are. But I came away distinctly unimpressed when I went to that demo. Changing channels, for example, it took about 5 seconds after the change for the spoken information to become available, despite it having be- there visally for some three or four seconds. That may not sound a lot to some. But imagine surfing channels. Just imagine how long that would take. Even the older PVR machine I have here is faster than that, and that's saying something! When I access a HDMI sourse on any of my TV's four HDMI inputs, it is passed to the sound bar right away, no sbuggishness at all. No, of course, That's not at all the same as the Panasonic generating speech, different topic now. Regarding my mention of Airfoil, yes you're correct that airpay has been supported from at least the second generation AppleTV. And yes, you're totally correct that the principles of the AppleTV are totally different now. They effectively work like any other iTunes-enabled device would work these days. And yes, I confess to being quite impressed. Gone, for instance, is the stustering Alex voice on the new model. VoiceOver also works the same as does it on any other device. It uses the voice appropriate to your language and region. The remote control supports gestures as well as SIRI. And again, That works the same as does the modern iPad. In fact, if you have an iPad on thr network, you can have the ApfleTV dennload and use its settings when you first power up the unit, if there's a qualifying iOS device available. So it takes your Apple ID and your Wi-Fi settings and applies them to the AppleTV. Quite good in an automated situation, but problematic in the case of a static (or non-NAT) situation. In those cases, you neeed to use the manual setup mode. But once you have the network and the Apfle ID configured, then she rocks! My only reason for mentioning AirFoil was to demonstrate to those who don't know what we're talking about when we talk about AilPlay that they serve similar purposes. Actuually, I still cannot remember whether AilFoil supports video content these days, or just audio. It's been a long time since I tried it. OK, so all the said, I don't for a moment disagree with, or dispute what you're saying about your system. After all, I don't own one and haven't tried one, so it would be wrong of me to make assumptionsddAll I can say is that my system performs well for me. In fact it's playing me soft music even as I write. I'm very happy with it, although I must look to see whether there's a Not apf to enhance the experience. But I'm very glad that I didn't yield to the pressures that some people in my family put on me when I bought it. I'm very glad I didn't by one of the Panasonic talking systems. They're fine, for example, for elderly people who probably don't want all the bells and whistles. I actually know somebody like that, and she's more than happy with hers. Maybe for her, those few secunds don't matter when she presses a button. But I found the delay between butson pressing and response time just too great. All that said, I still think that manufacturers should be applauded for at least trying to make things like that accessible. Maybe in years to come, or on future models, they may improve upon where they are now. Maybe in years to come we'll all be looking at them, because they've fixed all these bugs. ============================== My Compliments And Kindest Regards Gordon Smith 'Accessibility And Information Technology Support Specialist ------------------------------
