Newegg YAMAHA YAS-101 2.1CH Front Surround System + 60 gift card for $149

Quote from runIrish24 : Anybody know if this falls under $150 somewhere if we could get the paypal price match? I doubt they would notice the gift card.

yes sir

I don't see 60 $ gift card.. How to get that

yeah...no more gift card. What's going on with Newegg??

I don't think it's an error.
They probably nuked it, which is odd, since they're still running the gift cards for a bunch of other Yamaha products. The others all seem to be receivers though.

Would have been a great deal for me..Was up until 4 this morning but missed this The GC is not available anymore.

I know this is sold out, but for future reference does anyone know if I can still use a soundbar? I stream all my movies onto the tv from my laptop, and the sound comes from speakers hooked up to my laptop..

So tempted to order this sound bar. I emailed Amazon to see if they can come any close to this price. Their policy states they keep trying to have competitive pricing. Any idea this will help?

Quote from krazyshopper : I know this is sold out, but for future reference does anyone know if I can still use a soundbar? I stream all my movies onto the tv from my laptop, and the sound comes from speakers hooked up to my laptop..

That's somewhat difficult to answer straight up.

Well, I guess first, if your laptop has an optical output, the easy answer is yes. Of course I don't know what you have, but I'm going to guess that your laptop doesn't have the right output to feed the sound directly to the sound bar.

So then the question becomes how and why you feed sound from your laptop to external speakers. Yeah, I know the short answer is to hear better. But if you hook your laptop up to your TV via HDMI cable, will the sound come out of the TV speakers? My girlfriend's parents used to have an older HDTV that would only show video from the laptop. If that's your problem, then I don't think this soundbar would work for you because this sound bar does not take any HDMI inputs.

If you just feed the sound through external speakers because they sound better than the TV, but you can actually run the sound through the TV speakers with an HDMI cable from your laptop, then you should be in business. The sound will then be fed from the TV to this sound bar with the optical cable and you're good to go.

Quote from Parachute07 : That's somewhat difficult to answer straight up. Well, I guess first, if your laptop has an optical output, the easy answer is yes. Of course I don't know what you have, but I'm going to guess that your laptop doesn't have the right output to feed the sound directly to the sound bar. So then the question becomes how and why you feed sound from your laptop to external speakers. Yeah, I know the short answer is to hear better. But if you hook your laptop up to your TV via HDMI cable, will the sound come out of the TV speakers? My girlfriend's parents used to have an older HDTV that would only show video from the laptop. If that's your problem, then I don't think this soundbar would work for you because this sound bar does not take any HDMI inputs. If you just feed the sound through external speakers because they sound better than the TV, but you can actually run the sound through the TV speakers with an HDMI cable from your laptop, then you should be in business. The sound will then be fed from the TV to this sound bar with the optical cable and you're good to go.

Thanks parachute07 for the explanation. That clears things up. I don't think I ever tried using my tv speakers for streaming movies because the sound was really good from the speakers I hooked up to the laptop. I didn't want to mess with what worked well.

I think I will try getting the sound from the tv then and if I can get that to work then I can perhaps start looking for a soundbar for even better sound. Thanks!

Quote from krazyshopper : Thanks parachute07 for the explanation. That clears things up. I don't think I ever tried using my tv speakers for streaming movies because the sound was really good from the speakers I hooked up to the laptop. I didn't want to mess with what worked well. I think I will try getting the sound from the tv then and if I can get that to work then I can perhaps start looking for a soundbar for even better sound. Thanks!

Yeah -- I mean, if you're not set on this Yamaha sound bar (which, now that they took away the $60 GC, I'd guess you're not set on it), then keep your eye out for one that has HDMI inputs (HDMI switching). Then you can just plug the laptop straight into the sound bar.

Quote from Parachute07 : Yeah -- I mean, if you're not set on this Yamaha sound bar (which, now that they took away the $60 GC, I'd guess you're not set on it), then keep your eye out for one that has HDMI inputs (HDMI switching). Then you can just plug the laptop straight into the sound bar.

oh, ok..so basically the soundbar would be replacing my current computer speakers plugged into my laptop. I don't think my laptop has two Hdmi inputs. I need the current one to plug into the tv, so the soundbar I would need to get would probably need a regular audio jack plug I'd suppose. Either that or I try getting the sound through my tv speakers.

Quote from calvin_nr : Would have been a great deal for me..Was up until 4 this morning but missed this The GC is not available anymore.

I was also up till then with Borderlands 2, too blurry eyed by then anyway. I already have a Yamaha 7.1 system but sometimes I just want to junk all the wires and start over with a cleaner install.

Quote from krazyshopper : oh, ok..so basically the soundbar would be replacing my current computer speakers plugged into my laptop. I don't think my laptop has two Hdmi inputs. I need the current one to plug into the tv, so the soundbar I would need to get would probably need a regular audio jack plug I'd suppose. Either that or I try getting the sound through my tv speakers.

Maybe I should have let someone else answer you because I'm admittedly a little out of my element on sound bars. I came to this thread to pick one up as a Christmas gift :-).

But, what I'm saying, is that I believe you should be able to get a sound bar that you plug your laptop into directly via HDMI and then connect the sound bar and TV via a second HDMI cable.

Laptop ---HDMI-------> Sound bar input
Sound bar output -----HDMI--------> TV input

So you'd need two HDMI cables, but only one output on the TV. Like I said, I'm a little out of my element here -- but I'd imagine this is perfectly possible. However, as I mentioned earlier, it's also probable that you can just continue to plug your laptop into the TV and the TV into the sound bar and you're golden.

If someone else wants to chime in, that's be great as I use a receiver and speakers, so I'm not terribly knowledgeable about the sound bar options that exist.

The only time it would make sense for a sound bar to have HDMI, is if it had two hdmi inputs and one output. the inputs would come from PS3, laptop, etc, and the output would go to the TV. There is no popular system (console, laptop) that has two hdmi inputs to allow for one to go to the tv and another to go to the sound bar. Also, I would be concerned about the quality of the image for a soundbar that has hdmi in/out. This sound bar, having two optical inputs is perfect for me personally, since I can connect the ps3 straight to it with optical for maximum quality and hdmi for the tv. and I can have the tv optical connect to the sound bar for other uses such as TV shows and when connecting the laptop.