TANKs BLOG : monday misc stuff

Traveling for half of this week, won't be blogging till THursday.  I took a look around today though and not a ton of news out there.  I think everyone's recuperating from E3 and busy writing their impressions and what not.

I picked up the final piece to my new HD home theater system, an Onkyo TX SR606 receiver.   The 'old' one the 605 won many awards and got much praise for all the stuff it does for the price: MSRP $499.  I'm a Sony A/V guy though but the cheapest amp they have that does all the stuff the Onky does is $1199 !!!  Ihad read they were bringing out a competitor to the Onky in July so i wanted and i finally saw it on a product roadmap, msrp on it is 799.  So it's still way more expensive.  Then Onkyo replaced the 605 with the 606 based on user feedback and industry feedback, they've improved it's features and kept the pric ethe same. The biggest thing for me is it now has 4 HDMI 1.3a ports instead of only two.  IT also comes with a tuning Mic to set all 7.1 channels properly to where you're going to sit, sothat's also very cool.

So anyway i picked up the ONky for $399 on sale this week and ordered it out of state so no taxes and got free shipping.  So i managed to save $200 off MSRP and 8.75% in taxes, can't go wrong with that.  Then i ordered some coolor coordinated HDMI cables from monoprice.com for about 5 bucks each, got a green one for the xbox, blue one for bluray and a white one for whatever, it's just spare.  Plus i have a grey one already.