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One last question...when playing a Bluray movie, there is a black band on the top and bottom of the picture on my Samsung 52" tv. Is this normal? When watching a HD cable channel, the picture fills the entire screen. Thanks.

Which Harmony do you have? What are the advantages on running everything through the receiver? Thanks.

I'm a newbie to all of this, so I can use some help making sure I have everything set up properly. I have a HD cable box, Samsung HD TV, Onkyo 706 receiver, Samsung Blueray, Xbox 360 and a 5.1 speaker setup. The cable box is connected to the TV by hdmi and to the receiver by optical cable...

Yep, setting the Blueray to 'bitstream' did the trick. Thanks!

I don't seem to have this on my 706. The problem I have is that when I play Dolby Digital movies, it plays them as PCM 5.1 in THX Cinema mode. I can't seem to select DD on the receiver. My Blue Ray player is connected to my 706 via hdmi. My TV audio out is set to 'off'. What's strange is if I...

Is the ps3 connected by HDMI? The Onkyo 706 can decode the HD audio formats, found on blu ray movies (Dolby TrueHD and dtsHD Master Audio). With this ability, I hope you're not listening to blu ray movies in Pro Logic II? Regular Dolby Digital and DTS are better than Pro Logic, and Dolby TrueHD...

I went into a local Howards store and the sales rep was telling me that. I got the feeling he was pretty new and didn't really know what he was talking about. So I'm clear...if I want the ability to sometimes watch tv without going through my receiver AND the ability to sometims watch tv via...

Thanks David!!

I'm a HT newbie and have seen several recommendations on how best to connect a HT system. Some say to connect everything to the TV and then connect the TV to the reciever while others say to connect everything (via hdmi) to the receiver. What's the best way to do this? My system will include...