Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion Advice from Axiom Owners Killing power to BluRay player harmful?

Scott, I honesty don't see how the problems you're having would be caused by what they're suggesting you eliminate from the equation. I'm curious if a power bar is considered a possible problem, because I had my previous Oppo 981 plugged into a power bar and it also worked fine.

They have excellent and knowledgeable C/S from my experience, but I find their reasoning suspicious, unless you have an insufficient power supply on one circuit and it's overloaded, causing the Oppo to fail.

Seems weird that I haven't had the same problems with the same setup.

I've had all my AV equipment plugged into Brick Wall surge protectors for 3+ years now without a glitch. I think that the Oppo just fried on its own and the problem isn't fully resolved yet.

Unfortunately it sounds like that's the case, bud.

Yeah, but your system is getting Canadian power instead of American power, so yours is mostly mellow and less agitated.

Yeah, I was enjoying just pressing the 1 power button to turn everything off.

Ah well. I'll try and shut it down gracefully at the end of the movie but knowing me, I'll only do it half the time.

Thanks for all the feedback

snazzed

I have a one button turn off solution for mine, but it cost a little under $500. The cost may have gone down since then. It's the Harmony 1100 remote. Newegg.com has the 1100 for $300 and you also need the $100 RF extender (I think it's called). Anyway the remote sends RF signals (Radio Frequency) to the RF extender, which converts RF to IR (Infrared) and flashes IR to your devices.

Once it's all setup (slight learning curve there, but not too bad), all I do is push the power button on it and it shuts everything down, which nicely cycles down normally and not just yanking the power.

Yeah, I've thought about the Harmony... but I have other things to spend $500 on first. For example, I still don't have a centre channel. Then I want some acoustic panelling. I'm sure I'll need a new computer by then... Perhaps a Harmony remote after that

Snazzed

Jeebus, a $500 remote? I'm perfectly happy with my little ol' $120 Harmony.

Yeah, but all of my eqipment is in a different room than the TV so it had to be RF and I'm tickled pink with the 1100. It gives me full access to all of the built in options of all of my components, with the touch screen.

Edit: I haven't experienced any of the problems with any of the reviews I've read (except 1, which is you cannot program a macro of functions other than what to do at turn on and turn off time). I've left it off of the recharger for hours and haven't ever experienced a down battery. I've dropped it numerous times and it still works. It's easy to use with one hand for most functions, but if you need 2 hands, so what. I haven't felt put out yet. So much for reading reviews.