Gonk,

Does the 990 have to be powered on to pass thru a cable box signal. You know, so my daughter can just sit down and just turn on the tv::

My Loewe only has one Component input and its being fed from the 990.

Also, my Loewe is wide screen and the menu form the 990 don't look to good. the menu seems out of "kilter" and some items overlap.

Have yet to get the SACD to funtion. In fact the only thing I can get it to do is run on 7.1 from the oppo and just have two channel playback.

At least I got a small taste of my labor!

Im just happy it fired up! If I can get the oppo to get on my moniter I can get it set up.

Man I still got lots to do! Been working on this for two days. Electrician was here for 8 hours saturday. Ran into some problems with running wires thru beams. Didn't help that he dropped the nastiest looking drill bit I ever saw on his foot.

I said "hey, that could have been real bad"!

He looked at me, then we both looked at his socks as it fast turned red.

My first thought was "Curt Shilling!" (hey its not my foot and im paying this guy by the hour!), then I ran around and got a towel, paper towel, Peroxide, band aids and got him fixed up! After cleaning his toes from blood and putting a few band aids on where he cracked his nail, we are very close now. Can't remember the last time I touched another mans feet. But I felt bad for the guy, he's bleeding like crazy, and I want the damm job finished!

Ran a 20 amp circut to the den. Also one for the fridge in the garage. ran the Cat5 cable also on recommendations here!

I hope it all comes together tomorrow! Gotta call the cable company, my DVR cable box won't reboot properly! Family is looking at me funny now! I messed it up!

I got a ton of questions. So little time! I thought by now I'd be cranking out some movies!