Flexion.Org Blog » Home Cinema http://blog.flexion.org Bad grammar and typos for total strangers Tue, 17 Jan 2012 17:01:52 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 PS3, Mediatomb, Multi Zone Music streaming http://blog.flexion.org/2009/09/26/ps3-mediatomb-multi-zone-music-streaming/ http://blog.flexion.org/2009/09/26/ps3-mediatomb-multi-zone-music-streaming/#comments Sat, 26 Sep 2009 11:02:52 +0000 Martin http://blog.flexion.org/?p=275

PlayStation 3 firmware 3.00 added a new feature I was very excited about, multi-av output.

Today I finally got round to re-wiring the home cinema system to make use of this new feature. I now have the PS3 streaming music from Mediatomb with my A/V receiver sending audio to Zone 1 via digital inter connects and also sending audio to Zone 2 via analog stereo interconnects. Zone 1 is a 5.1 speaker setup and Zone 2 is a 2.0 all weather wireless speaker system which  are often in the kitchen but also moved outside for parties. We have a party today :-D

If Sony could just add Skype to the PS3 and allow the PSP Remote Play to output audio to both the PS3 and PSP (rather than just one of them) I would be very happy indeed.

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Today I finally got around to ordering some stuff from Amazon.co.uk using the vouchers I was given as present at Christmas. I have ordered The Matrix Trilogy and The Lord of the Rings Trilogy (Extended Edition Box Set) which I hope arrive before the weekend as my wife is away for a few days and I feel I need to spend some time (or a couple of days to get through both box sets) in our home cinema :-)

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I have noticed that the contrast levels on my Panasonic TH42-PHD8 plasma will suddenly increase during dark scenes and then drop back down to normal a fraction of a second later. This can be most distracting but as it only happens once or twice a week it hasn’t really bothered me.

But, I found a discussion at AVForums which describes how to enter the plasma service menu and fixed this behaviour. I am pleased to say it works perfectly :-) Read me below…

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I had previously read on Yahoo Groups that a project was under way to retro fit a USB interface to the PaceTwin allowing for easy archiving of recorded programs to a computer. Well, the guy who is planning the DIY upgrade has setup a website which is documenting progress and also other useful PaceTwin information. See the URL below for more information…

  •  http://www.pace-twin.org.uk/website/index.php
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I have been exchanging e-mails with the UK distributor for Lumagen and the Lumagen engineering department. Today is a happy day because I have just tested a prerelease firmware which fully fixes the issues I have reported :-D Thanks very much to the engineers at Lumagen for their patience and hard work, truly excellent customer service!

See my post in the Lumagen forums, post by ”Remix_88” are me.

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I have spent the last few weeks tweaking and improving my home cinema setup, most of my time has been spent learning how to fully exploit my Lumagen video processor.

I am extremely impressed with the hugh improvements in image quality the Lumagen VisionDVI provides as opposed to sending video sources direct to the plasma screen, but something isn’t right with the de-interlacing of DVB-T (or Freeview as we call it in the UK).

I have isolated the exact issue and posted a problem report in the Lumagen forums.

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Tonight was a landmark occasion. After nearly two years of planning I finally completed our home cinema, the last job was mounting the plasma screen. Apart from hiding away some power cables it is all complete, can’t wait to get into some serious film viewing :-)

Mounting the plasma screen was not a job I was looking forward, DIY is not my strong suit. But, I managed it and posted my experiences in the topic below at AVForums. Posts by ”Remix_88” are me.

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I got an e-mail form my farther-in-law this morning telling me that Pace were about to release a new software update for the Twins PVR. Yah! I love my PaceTwin but it has had a checkered past with bugs in the software, the one existing bug which I still encounter is 0 second recordings. Initial reports seem to indicate this problem is resolved in the new update, woohoo! :-D

The following topics at Digital Spy and AVForums are discussing the new update…

Whilst reading about this new PaceTwin update I also found mention of TwinRip which enables you to extract recorded programs from the PaceTwin hard disk. I have yet to test it, but it looks very interesting and a Linux version is also available :-)

You can check for upcoming software updates for other Freeview receivers on the Engineering Channel Download Schedule page.

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I have started working on a new project at home, it is one I know I am going to enjoy because it satisfies two of my hobbies :-) I am going to build a prototype PVR based on MythTV. I am still in the planning stages at the moment but I am keeping notes in my Linux PVR and Media Center article.

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