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Yeah, Alex; as Chris points out, two different lasers are being discussed. One operating at a 780nm wavelength reads CDs, while one operating at 650nm reads DVDs, DVD-As and SACDs. Apparently the CD laser in Ken's player is inoperative and he hasn't had the optical reader assembly replaced.

I'm a bit concerned that I couldn't get the HDMI output from my laptop to work on one of the rear HDMI ports, but it worked on the front one. I'll have to do more troubleshooting, but I'm starting to get nervous about those reports of bad HDMI inputs on Onks. Sigh.

I haven't even got to the fun stuff in the receiver!

Oh, i had not idea that there were actually 2 laser elements, i thought that the dvd/blu ray laser elements were backwards compatible.


BTW Ken, where are the photos?!?!?!?!

Blu-ray players actually have 3 emitters. Some cheap DVD players tried reading CDs with the one laser, it works for some part of the time. It was found out by the people who bought them there was a lot of media that couldn't reliably be read with the shorter wavelength. Pioneer's first batch of BD players didn't include a CD laser, but they didn't try to cheat, they just left CD playback off the feature list (that confused a lot of people).

So I've been playing with it a little more, and I've gotta say, there must be something I'm missing here. Mostly I've been watching some fairly low res (ie 400p) streaming from my laptop through the receiver to the TV. Now the receiver says it has some decent tools for streaming video, but they don't work on the PC input. ?! So I logically changed the HDMI port to be the Game input, but that doesn't seem to change anything. Anyone with an Onk streaming from a PC through it?

OTOH, it was pretty cool that my laptop recognized the Onk as being the output by name in the Sound System Preference pane.

Heh. I just hooked my Mac directly to my TV yesterday to watch Weeds (via iTunes). The HDMI audio output was labeled SAMSUNG.