You know that you have to press user A or user B volume knob for aboout 3s to turn the unit off?
This always worked when my unit was unresponsive yesterday.
You're right. I didn't realize that. Probably would have powered off from my "red screen" if I'd done that. I will be sure to hold it in for 3-5 seconds if/when this next occurs. But for sure it did respond right away to POWER on the remote.
And you know that you can turn off the green lights on the set top completely? p. 41 in the manual.
Yes I did know that. I'd already turned down the brightness on the lights so that I could make out the individual LED's from the otherwise bright glare from across the room.
Keeping your head still just to keep the green lights in the middle doesn't make much sense. Headtracking is there so that you DON't have to keep your head straight all the time.
Well, I'm not sure. I do want to look straight ahead, at the screen. And I want the L/R speakers to be where they should be from my perspective.
Unless I see the lights as my easily observed positive visual confirmation that (a) I'm centered and "perpendicular" to the ST, and (b) am not mistakenly considered to be rotated slightly so that the L/R balance is off, I have no way to detect if I'm off-center except by rotating my head left and right until it "sounds right". Can't stop doing that. And "flying blind, i.e. by sound" it's just as distracting and annoying as looking at the green lights, and again taking away from the pure enjoyment of just watching the picture on my TV screen while hearing sound properly balanced coming into both ears and not having to think about it at all.
If the HT rubber-banded to my headphone band isn't looking perfectly straight ahead, and if the ST isn't perfectly placed so that my straight-ahead viewing position is perpendicular to the HT, then the A16 will consider me to be off-center or rotated, and will adjust the L/R balance accordingly. That's not really what I want. Add in the up/down sensitivity as well, and it's a real delicate job to affix the ST on the top of the TV and the HT on the headband just perfectly, so that I can just forget it. I understand that if I turn my head the sound field will change, and that's fine. I just don't want me to be looking straight ahead and the L/R balance is off.
And then i t seems that your head top doesn't work properly, the gyro doesn't calibrate itself, this is a known error.
I don't follow. I'm using the ST/HT in optical mode. What does this have to do with the gyro and calibration? Was I supposed to do something special to facilitate optical mode? I didn't think so, or know that if true. I thought in optical mode it just worked, like with the A8, except that there is now the cable going from HT to the A16 instead of a rechargeable battery in the HT. Did I miss something?
For sure, something is not right, when all of a sudden and with no head motion of any kind the lights on the ST change or disappear, and the sound field rotates 90 degrees.