[bluesfan]

I'm at work right now but I remember in the setup part of my HR20 there was some options for "display sounds" but it was grayed out. I'm assuming this is something like with Tivo where you would hear sound/beep when pressing play, pause, etc. So my question is that true and why is it grayed out? Because I do like that feature with the Tivo's, not a big deal just curious.

 

[LameLefty]

It's grayed-out right now because the s/w team has bigger fish to fry, mainly. Secondarily, it's also to avoid a lot of confusion that is likely when they do enable system sounds. Since many of us ONLY connect sound through the optical port and watch a great deal of DD content, we won't hear sounds anyway. Multiplexing system sound effects in real-time into a DD stream is pretty processor-intensive and it's something TiVo has never done either. So we're only likely to hear system sound during PCM audio, which is liable to confuse a lot of people.

As a slight aside, I was reading the blog of a developer associated with the MS HD-DVD add-on player for the Xbox 360 and he mentioned that multiplexing sound like that while displaying HD content off the discs uses all the hardware threads of the 3-core processor of the 360; this task it just about the most processor-intensive application out there for the 360, with the exception of one particular game (Gears of War).

 

[bluesfan]

LameLefty,

Thanks for the info, not a big deal just some of those small things I got used to with the SD Tivo box. I'll survive with out sound when pushing buttons, this is my first HD TV it is freaking amazing the difference. thanks again.

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