- LE JACOBO

After having sol­ved (or found the cause of) the issue of the video qua­lity, I ins­ta­lled the 5.1 recie­ver that came with the combo.

It’s very pretty, an LG HT-353sd.

A very basic design, doesn’t have much options to have audio in, or much power to take the audio out really loud. Good thing it’s it works.

Since I’m not into having wires all around my room, I went clas­sic style and set up the thin­gie only with my good old pair of fatass spea­kers (which sound ama­zin­gly when not over­loa­ded with bass) with the sub­wof­fer the unit came with, to remove bass load from the fatass spea­kers.. and oh god it sounds like it should !

I’m very happy with the way it sounds, the radio is easy to use and the remote has a good size and but­ton dis­tri­bu­tion, etc. Nicely.

After mes­sing a while with the radio I went in to setup the DVD with the tv.

At first it did look great, the splash menu, the inner menues, the options; the audio setup tool is very com­plete, you can set the dis­tance the spea­ker is from you, the volume, the sound eq. pre­set, and others I don’t remem­ber. The video options was a bit more limi­ted, tho. Then I went to the Zone setup, and repla­ced the code coun­try with 0000, then the coun­try code set it to ZZ. After pla­ying and lur­king found the key sequence to access the info screen, with the current firm­ware, zone­lock, that kind of infor­ma­tion, and found out that the DVD Zone was 0. (will never know if it was because of the fac­tory being set­ting them as 0, or I unlo­cked it by changhing the coun­try code to 0000)

tur­ned it on, and had a very sad dis­co­very. After having had a great time unwrap­ping, set­ting up, and pla­ying around dis­co­ve­red the sad fact that the DVD Video qua­lity is very lousy on a giant ass lcd tv. =( My old Master-G (super­mar­ket brand) 35usd DVD pla­yer looks far bet­te­rer, both con­nec­ted via com­po­nent with the same cable.

So I didn’t com­pli­cate my life too much and I just left both DVDs, the 5.1 com­po­nent is now a repla­ce­ment for my old-bigass radio, and a cd pla­yer, or mp3, or wha­te­ver (it’s usb too) And my old DVD will be that while I get a blu­ray pla­yer or a ps3. Wha­te­ver hap­pens first.

later.