carlos67
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Yes, I certainly have, on both the TV and the HT, and it makes no difference.
Yep, same here no difference even after putting latest firmware on.
btw thanks for the link
Yes, I certainly have, on both the TV and the HT, and it makes no difference.
You would think when you turn of the HTD5500 box everything would turn off. But Hell no. The box turns off and the tv stays on. This is horribly programmed.
As explained eight months ago - why on earth would anybody want their telly to switch off, just because they've turned their speaker system off?
It is because most people who buy a "home theater system" will want their sound to come out of the theater system, so they can get the best sound possible when they watch Telly, dvd, etc.
Correct.
Turning on the TV should not automatically turn on things which are connected to it via HDMI CEC (the general term for Samsung Anynet, Sony BraviaSync, Panasonic Vieralink etc etc etc). Turning on the home cinema first will then turn the TV on (because the manufacturer wouldn't expect you to have the home cinema on without also having the TV on) but turning the TV on would not be expected to automatically turn the home cinema on. You are expecting Anynet+ to work in a way it has not been designed to work. Many people want their TV on without wanting their home cinema on also - and it would annoy more people than it would placate if the home cinema did turn on automatically every time you turned the telly on.
If you want both to turn on from one key press, turn the home cinema on. This will turn the TV on. But don't expect turning the telly on to switch the home cinema on - cos this will never happen automatically. But selecting the home cinema source HDMI on the TV will switch it on, if you really can't be bothered pressing the on/off switch of the home cinema yourself.
I would have thought so, yes. Can't imagine anybody else wanting the home cinema to turn on each time you turn the telly on.
Well, in my case it doesn't even work that way around (I had already tried). When both things are off and I turn the home cinema on using its remote, the TV remains off...
I'm already in touch with Samsung's support service via email and I'll sure give them a call. Probably won't get anything out of it but maybe if many of us complain loud enough... because I'm not alone in this, or am I?
A home theatre system is a DVD player with its own speakers. That's it - in a nutshell. The fact that it might allow you to connect other things to it - and hear these other things through the same speakers - is an extra facility that might, or might not, work. Therefore, I would suggest that nobody would buy a home theatre system to hear anything but their DVD player through said speakers - because if they wanted to hear anything but their DVD player through it, they wouldn't have wasted money on a home theatre system.
They would have bought a real AV amp/receiver, and worked out how to connect all of their external AV equipment to it.
I agree with those who want their receiver coming on at the same time as their tv. I have a Sony ht with hdmi pass through and a freeview+ box passing through my amp. The tv turns on the freeview box, but doesn't turn on my amp as its passing through. Most annoying to have to turn on the receiver by going to tools, anynet, receiver, on. But if I turn the receiver on before the tv then the tv plays sound through both its own speakers and the amp making an ever so slight echo. So I can't even use that as a workaround. Still have to go to tools every time.
Rather than setting tv to "external speakers", I just put the volume to 0. If I dont turn on the amp, I can still turn up the volume on the tele. If I do turn on the amp, the tele volume stays at 0 and the volume control turns up the amp instead. Laziness ftw!
(Really I did it because my doddering parents-in-law are quite often 'round, and there's just no point trying to explain what to do...)
Haha, they understand there is a magic box that the young 'uns use to make sound come from all directions. We leave it at that.
The whole hdmi control malarkey seems very 'un-standard', so I guess Onkyo decided that turning on the receiver IS a good idea and put that in their interpretation of it. It probably really annoys a load of Onkyo users, and they're on their forum shouting about the stupidity of it
Yeah, probably right there. My 5yr old tosh LCD manages to turn on the receiver so I know it's all samsungs fault. And as long as I can point a finger, I'm happy. Keeps the mrs of my back anyway. "It's not my fault, you wanted a samsung tv!!"
A home theatre system is a DVD player with its own speakers. That's it - in a nutshell. The fact that it might allow you to connect other things to it - and hear these other things through the same speakers - is an extra facility that might, or might not, work. Therefore, I would suggest that nobody would buy a home theatre system to hear anything but their DVD player through said speakers - because if they wanted to hear anything but their DVD player through it, they wouldn't have wasted money on a home theatre system.
They would have bought a real AV amp/receiver, and worked out how to connect all of their external AV equipment to it.