michaelvella wrote:I would not buy this based on your above equipment. It's best suited for a simple set up for watching movies via blue ray and listening to music.
Your xbox already plays blue ray, so go out and spend the same amount of money on a full blown home theater receiver. Onkyo would be my suggestion.

Xbox 360 most certainly does NOT play Blu-Ray.

I agree that he's better off with another receiver, I'd personally recommend the Denon AVR-1312... MSRP at $199, plenty of capability at the price.

cnsf wrote:I also have a 671. This has a blu-ray player. You need to add a whole lot of space and cables if you get a 671 and a bluray. This is smaller and more compact.

You would need 1hdmi cable to connect a blu ray player to your 671 receiver.

This HTIB system sucks. No flexibility.

ItsMorph wrote:I'm tech-stupid when it comes to this kind of thing. Does this have a TV tuner?

Can it tune in, say, an OTA signal?
Can I use it to tune in some of the cable TV signals?

Yes, I read the description, but I'm older than you and have a 3-year-old. I'm tired!

No TV tuner. Cannot receive an OTA signal.

AfroGT wrote:You would need 1hdmi cable to connect a blu ray player to your 671 receiver.

This HTIB system sucks. No flexibility.

It's not for everyone, but it serves its purpose for those with small spaces and limited audio needs.

FYI, my Roku XD doesn't care about HDCP, nor does my ~4 year old Win7-based HTPC, when connected to a brand new Insignia LCD HDTV. The devices both play HD content via HDMI to the TV, while allowing my TV to feed the audio out via 3.5mm headphone jack to RCA splitter to my 20-yr-old pro-logic receiver, which is happy to play the analog audio.

This of course flies in the face of HDCP's intended operation, which tries to restrict any sort of analog output of audio that was delivered in an HD digital signal. When I hook up my upscaling DVD player, the HDCP works as intended, and all I get is a black screen with a copy-protection warning as the audio from the DVD plays through my analog receiver. Put the same disc into my HTPC, and no problem--digital video on the screen and analog audio through the HT.

The point is, HDCP doesn't always get in the way, even though it claims it will, particularly with devices that are a few years old... even if the tech specs indicate they are "HDCP compliant".

Just my $.02, caveat emptor, YMMV, TGIF, etc. Woot on!

michaelvella wrote:Your xbox already plays blue ray, ...

Um, nope, Xbox 360 does not play BluRay only PS3 does...

This is surely limited and might suit some people with a limited secondary setup but gets complicated as soon as you want to watch anything but BLuray.

it's a little weird that it's even called a 'receiver', like some have said it hardly 'receives' anything. It really isn't that jaded to want a couple more inputs in something called a receiver that you'd use as your entertainment 'hub' in theory.

If it doesn't include some of the fancy wireless web apps for netflix/hulu, etc like lots of new components do now, and you ever want that, then you have to plug something else into it or your TV and out to it, and this things immediately gets messy. It's like the dvd/home theater cheapys that they sold a video stores a few years back; one function, no support for any more.
Sell it as that; for some people that's fine, watch some movies get ok surround. But a receiver? Hardly. Good luck with those Blurays, too. They'll quickly be the laser discs of this generation, great but dead. Just hook up a video game or any other device and stream everything in HD, it's not a big future thing you can do it now.

If this was like 80 bucks, and came with some jiffy pop I'd be all over it, but a solid craigslist receiver and an xbox already out performs this at my house (or playstation if you MUST have BLUray).

The lack of an equalizer or even rudimentary bass/treble controls is a deal breaker for me. Otherwise would want one for my bedroom system.

renatus wrote:It's a little weird that it's even called a 'receiver', like some have said it hardly 'receives' anything.

Yeah, it's definitely not a receiver. It's a Blu-ray player with a built-in 5-channel amplifier.

ashah1111 wrote:One HDMI port? Eh. Pass.

To anyone interested in this item, if you want a true entertainment system, this is not it. If you don't know what I mean, then, this is for you. Otherwise get a 7.1 receiver with a wifi ready blu ray player and a good sub. You'll feel the throaty rumble then.

C'mon woot this is easy to beat. With 10% THD at rated power, you should be embarrassed- I think my clock radio is better than that. For $230 you can do way better than this deal- and I didn't even pick the cheapest stuff out:

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cbearnm wrote:This is inaccurate, PS3 can play BluRay, XBox can not.

No Only PS3 can play blu-ray

DocSpringfield wrote:No Only PS3 can play blu-ray

LOL even if I didn't already have a PS3 I'd buy one over this POS.

When in the name of ME (mike) are these MFG going to include an HDMI cable? Where's the Hotel?!!!!

Regarding the statement that this is not a receiver. Yes, it is, indeed, a receiver. I've had systems since long before you could hook up video to them, so the lack of video inputs doesn't mean it's not a receiver. It doesn't have the functionality of most (ok, virtually ALL) newer receivers, but, as long as it "receives" audio input, has a tuner built in, and has an amplifier, then it is technically a receiver. Just not a good one.

technosavant wrote:Xbox 360 most certainly does NOT play Blu-Ray.

I agree that he's better off with another receiver, I'd personally recommend the Denon AVR-1312... MSRP at $199, plenty of capability at the price.

Any advice for subs to make the full set? I know nothing about audio but I bit on the Klipsch because I wanted a nice sound system to go with my new TV/Apartment. Thanks!

warcoc6 wrote:Any advice for subs to make the full set? I know nothing about audio but I bit on the Klipsch because I wanted a nice sound system to go with my new TV/Apartment. Thanks!

Klipsch Quintet, you mean? Ought to have some sort of sub, already. But in the inexpensive sub range, these are pretty good. The whole lineup.
http://www.parts-express.com/pe/showdetl.cfm?Partnumber=300-629