RickR

Promising update: I found that the Roku device itself have sound leveling set, and I think that is what was glitching. Turning off that leveling setting made it work fine for the couple of hours of TV we watched. Fingers crossed that it is now fixed. The updated AV settings and two extra speakers make it sound pretty great. So I think for now, we stick with this setup.

We just watched S5-E5 too. I agree with your assessment. Interesting stuff regarding the Breen.

An Atari 8-bit Pico Cart. Do I "need" another multi-cart for Atari? No I do not. But it was inexpensive and I went for it.

Here is a pic of my setup. I've re-hooked up the AV system and made a few changes. We'll see if this helps. I went ahead and added the two rear speakers, but I put them underneath the cabinet facing sideways. I have no idea if that will work well, but it beats running cables across the room! I made some tweaks to the settings on the receiver. Of course, about 30 minutes in to this basketball game, the sound went wonky loud again. Sigh.

Good question, and I've tried it with that both off and on. No difference in results, although I did leave it on as I like the way that works.

Mine too! But something is going on. I don't think it's the HDMI cables themselves, although I can easily switch those out. More experimentation I don't really have time for coming 🙂

I'm also a little bit discouraged by the reduced image quality going through the digital av receiver. I wonder why it would do that?

I agree with everything you've said Crossbow. But the other problem is the complexity of the digital receiver. My speakers include surround modules, but I have no desire to run wires to the back of the room. Hence, I don't use them. So then setting up the receiver to convert sounds to the 3.1 format instead of 5.1...well, it is cumbersome and god forbid someone touches the wrong button to goof it up.

Oh Ye Gads! I just downloaded the manual for my TV and LOOK at this monstrosity! Samsung! NO! BAD!

I've been struggling lately with our main family room entertainment setup and I'd like others' opinions. What do you use, and do you like it? Let me describe what I have and the issue I'm trying to solve. I'll post pics later if necessary, but I think you've all seen my family room setup in various high-score contest pictures. TV: Samsung 50" (we love it, such a beautiful and bright picture. Replacing this is not on the table) Audio: Sony digital receiver with Bose 3.1 speakers. Sounds really great with a deep bass boom. This has been our setup for years, so we are very used to it. 8 HDMI inputs. This is the heart of our system. What is connected: Main item: A Roku streaming device, which we use daily. Also: A blu-ray player, my PS1 Classic, an empty HDMI cable that we use for laptops or other gaming, and a USB thumb drive full of music. The problem: The Roku sound is terrible. This is a new (withing the last six months issue, and it isn't just me...MANY people have this issue and Roku seems oblivious). It will often either get REALLY loud or really quiet. Very annoying. My experimentation: Hooking the Roku directly to the TV helps. The sound issue occurs MUCH less often. Let's say twice a week instead of twice a day on average. However, the TV sound is pretty weak with NO bass boom. It also appears that the picture is cleaner this way, although I don't know why. My idea: I've been thinking of ditching the digital receiver and speakers and simplifying. Instead, how about adding a nice soundbar (with subwoofer) to the TV, and then an HDMI switchbox. I could use the extra space that the receiver occupies for another gaming console (like the VCS). I'd play it more if it were down here. What do you all use? Any advice greatly appreciated.

I think we had this exact box! This one reminds me of how hard it was to share toys with my older brother. Always telling me what to do and how to do it and making sure I didn't "mess it up" or break it. Sigh. I guess this is why I love my Atari 2600 so much, as that was the first toy we had that I kind of took ownership of and didn't have to take any guff over.

Somebody needs to track down the Intellivision DK developer and ask though 🙂 I'm kidding of course. That one is worse than the 2600 version IMO, but probably due to the limited time to develop.

You guys have me beat in the feedback dept. Very impressive!

I watched last night. Excellent! Very enjoyable to watch and hopefully this puts the issue to rest. Personally, I liked 2600 DK a lot. I remember buying it at Toys R Us and being so excited on the car ride home to play. I know it had it's limitations, but it was a lot of fun and definitely captured some of that Donkey Kong magic in my eyes.

No, but this is going to be me if they don't send me one on Oct 6: