Hi Jeff,

RA: I have all the items you noted in place. I also have ...well, a lot of idle time, so...... I took a digital photo of some of my kids sitting in the HT room reading a books of my choosing and incorporated that into my TP. I then placed a transparent button over the particular studious child and joined that to a press for that lighting scene. Now I can have a page flip in the TP to another photo, with actors unmoved and the light illuminate, with a toggle to flip back or to another "illuminated" child, etc.. i also have a stepper to do a system on when the RA dimmer is pressed entering the Ht, with various lights sequencing to unltimatly turn off the screen eyeballs at image transmission. DVD pause steps to a lighting scene of choice, etc..

The Crestron system has an audio distribution system that allows multisource inputs and 8 zone outputs, all selectable by each TP individually.

Winamp is a free sofwtare player for MP3's.

I have an Adcom tuner and amp + switcher for 6 zones and am going to use either an old Yamaha amp for the 2 remaining zones or go to a different amp system. Most of my zones are in wall or outdoor speakers and the HT room isn't rellay used for much MP3 stuff. My HTPC, Toshiba 3109 and sony 200 disc changer are there at the moment.

I have a Panasonic 6/16 system, so just punted on the intercom via Crestron/security system system.

You are right we are a bit off topic-i always seem to do that.

Anyway, when will we get Meridian to give us anupdate onthe rs232 feedback so we can poll the 861 , get the info onwhther we are in 2.0,2.1,5.1 or PCM and switch the DSP accordingly. I think DPLII is second to only %>! in EZ.

Thank you very much

Rich