Well, that does it for me. I'd pretty much decided the Outlaw 950 wasn't for me anyway - too many problems with the units and too long to bring the product to market. Throw in the complete lack of forethought on the zone 2 control features, and that's definitely the icing on the cake for me.

Again, re-read my original post. Why even have a zone 2 feature if you've got to do tricks to control it from the second room? And as Matthew pointed out, it would cost next to nothing to have incorporated 12 - 15 more discrete codes for zone 2 operation. Plenty of other companies have found a way to do it on receivers that cost the same or are less than this unit.

Since it's obvious that Outlaw put very little thought into this feature, I wonder what other features of the unit they put very little thought into. Composite to S-vid conversion? Bass management? Noise floor? Kind of makes me wonder. An isolated incident or single problem is one thing, but the 950 seems to have more bugs than Win 98 first edition.

-Cliff