Onkyo AVX-290 660W 5.1 Channel 3D Home Theater System $149.99 + Free Shipping

Mine has been flashing weird. I'm not sure whether its my Boxee Box or something else. I will test it with my Xbox today.

But when I play something with the Boxee. Right as I hit play, the screen goes black, I heard the sound and then 3-4 seconds later the image comes up, and my TV input flashes, kind of like I just plugged my HDMI cable into the TV. I don't know whether this is normal. Could be my Boxee so I will check with other components.

Woohoo, mine just arrived! Came a day earlier than the estimated date of delivery...

The clicking when switching inputs is normal. Some receivers do this, some don't. One of my Denon receivers even clicks when hitting mute/un-mute. There is a slight static like effect when switching options on the OSD, but it's no biggie and doesn't happen when nothing is pressed.

lol its 8:00pm still no sign of UPS. Product gone MIA.

Update:

Emergency conditions beyond UPS' control. awww snap lol...

Mine was available today for in store pickup. I was able to use a Staples $30 off $90 coupon (good for online or phone orders) that came in the mail as well. Probably YMMV, but I asked for a competitor price match and the manager did not find anything in BBY policy that "specifically excluded" the coupon so he allowed it.

I have successfully connected the gaming console and blue ray player to the onkyo receiver and sounds great.

But i'm not finding the way to connect my cable tv to my receiver. I have a cable connection which is a screw type one. Can someone please suggest me how to connect? Thanks

Quote from MKT : I have successfully connected the gaming console and blue ray player to the onkyo receiver and sounds great. But i'm not finding the way to connect my cable tv to my receiver. I have a cable connection which is a screw type one. Can someone please suggest me how to connect? Thanks

Are you talking about a coaxial cable connection? Do you normally screw it into your TV or a cable box?

Anybody know which speaker wall mount works for the rear?

Quote from Kiev : Are you talking about a coaxial cable connection? Do you normally screw it into your TV or a cable box?

Yes I am taking about the coaxial cable. I don't have the cable box and usually screw to my tv and now I want to connect to the receiver. Any suggestions????

Quote from MKT : Yes I am taking about the coaxial cable. I don't have the cable box and usually screw to my tv and now I want to connect to the receiver. Any suggestions????

So it appears your cable box is most likely NOT HD capable, or at the very least, only sports a component connection. You'll not be able to run your cable through your receiver unless you use the component connection. Look for red/green/blue output on the back of your cable box. If you've got those you can simply use a component cable to connect to the receiver.

EDIT: Just noticed you stated no cable box. That said you'll need to pick up a converter which allows you to convert your coax connection to a component connection. Do you have HDMI input on your TV?

EDIT 2: Apparently there is no "converter" for RF Coax to Component. That said, you probably wouldn't want to do it anyway as the picture would most likely be worse. Looks to me like you're simply going to have to run the coax directly to the TV bypassing the receiver. Then run audio out from the TV to the audio in on the receiver. Not sure you'll have any other option without either purchasing a Tivo or upgrading to digital cable.

Just got the set last night. This is replacing a 10 year old RCA HTIB with an RT2500 receiver. It has been pretty faithful, but the LCD display has been almost unreadable for the last couple years and no HDMI ports It will probably find a few more years use in the gameroom upstairs, which still has a 27" tube TV.

Hooked up the front speakers, center, and sub last night to do some testing. Not sure I'll connect the surround speakers.. mainly because it is going in an open, two story living room and I'm not sure how to even mount them.

So far I'm pretty happy, especially for $150. The voices are much easier to hear now over sound effects/music than on my old set. One thing I am slightly depressed about is it doesn't appear that you can pass a component signal through the HDMI to the TV? I guess you need an upconverting receiver to do that? I really wanted to connect the Wii to the receiver also and just have one HDMI cable going to the TV, but when I do I can't get a video signal to the TV.

Am I out of luck getting the Wii to display over the HDMI out from the receiver?

Quote from farscapesg01 : Just got the set last night. This is replacing a 10 year old RCA HTIB with an RT2500 receiver. It has been pretty faithful, but the LCD display has been almost unreadable for the last couple years and no HDMI ports It will probably find a few more years use in the gameroom upstairs, which still has a 27" tube TV. Hooked up the front speakers, center, and sub last night to do some testing. Not sure I'll connect the surround speakers.. mainly because it is going in an open, two story living room and I'm not sure how to even mount them. So far I'm pretty happy, especially for $150. The voices are much easier to hear now over sound effects/music than on my old set. One thing I am slightly depressed about is it doesn't appear that you can pass a component signal through the HDMI to the TV? I guess you need an upconverting receiver to do that? I really wanted to connect the Wii to the receiver also and just have one HDMI cable going to the TV, but when I do I can't get a video signal to the TV. Am I out of luck getting the Wii to display over the HDMI out from the receiver?

Ah! Same here - I tried hooking up m PS2 via Component and I could not figure out what was wrong, it took me like an hour of messing with it before I realized I couldn't hook it up. I just hooked it up to my TV and that's it.

I think you can make it work if you hook it into your receiver and then use component out on the receiver into the TV. I choose not to do this because of the extra wire and you still have to switch the input on the TV to get it to work.

Quote from lzzrdboy : Apparently there is no "converter" for RF Coax to Component. That said, you probably wouldn't want to do it anyway as the picture would most likely be worse. Looks to me like you're simply going to have to run the coax directly to the TV bypassing the receiver. Then run audio out from the TV to the audio in on the receiver. Not sure you'll have any other option without either purchasing a Tivo or upgrading to digital cable.

It appears he has analog cable, so another option would be to plug it into a vcr and ouput components to the receiver. Though this would not support HD and would require using the vcr to operate the channels.

Quote from Kiev : It appears he has analog cable, so another option would be to plug it into a vcr and ouput components to the receiver. Though this would not support HD and would require using the vcr to operate the channels.

Good point as that too would resolve the issue. I'm curious at this point however, was the original intention to use the receiver to enhance the audio from TV viewing or from gaming/dvd watching/etc.? If it was perhaps he should have gone with something simpler with no HD input/output.