Annie popped over this evening to cable up the surround sound system. Wow. We had a quick blast of LOTR Return of the King. The battle scene is awesome. There'll definitely be a weekend viewing of the whole trilogy going down sometime soon, with candlelight, junk food and beer.
But amazingly, that wasn't the best part. Oh no. The best part was setting the XBox to full Dolby Digital 5.1 and hearing some of the games in full glorious surround sound. Amazing.
The only slight downside? We couldn't get DTV recording working. I've been struggling with this for two months now (ever since we left Sky behind - another story in itself) and it seems there's some incompatibility between the Pioneer media centre that came with the plasma TV, and our Sony PVR (which only has an analogue tuner). At least it wasn't anything obvious that I hadn't spotted, so I didn't feel too stupid.
I dunno, you pay thousands for this stuff and it won't talk from one box to the other? Sheesh. We can record a digital channel, but only as long as the TV stays set to that channel AND only if we've programmed the EPG and the PVR to the same time. Not a lot of use. I can see us forking out for a second Freeview box before long.
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