Well, that's what the ads say. Have you used it and found it to be indeed plasma proof?

It even comes in silver to stick onto a plasma display.

I quit using Niles and went to Xantech for IR stuff a few years back because the accompanying Niles hardware seemed so much higher in price.

Just wondered what you folks thought.

[Link: nilesaudio.com]

The piece is awesome. I have put several on the front of plasmas with no trouble. They are +12V regulated so they work nicely with Xantech pieces.

Really? You can buy one of those and stick it into a Xantech setup? That's pretty amazing.

I just put one in where the previous now-absent installer used a dinky link connected to a Niles IRP2+. The dink had problems only with the satellite receiver commands, and the Niles has no such problems.

It is a little weird that the talkback light is blue...and it blinks just like the Xantech did, although much less.

Plasmaproof, maybe, but it still LOOKS like something is wrong!

The product is great! Chad is right, it does work nicely with xantech distribution blocks. I used it with a panasonic plasma and I had no problems. I ran a cat5 from the equipment location to the plasma which was 40 ft away and it worked fine. As far as for the blue blinking light, I like because you know that it is receiving the commands. But if it is too annoying for the client Niles says that you can use an IR code to turn off the blue blinking light. It should be available on their website. I haven't checked it out yet.

Wil
HomeTheaterTech.com

I've always mixed Niles and Xantech. Am I missing something here?

Used to be that Niles and Xantech sometimes had problems mixing. Depends on the setup.

Niles sensors each need their own connection to a Niles box. Xantech sensors can be paralleled. Niles described their system as "high impedance," which goes along with their saying to use shielded wire...although they put the data on the shield.

The IRP stuff did not have a common ground on the minus side of the IRs, so if you connected more than one IR output to a component's IR in jack using miniplugs, there were good chances that there would be a problem.

Their current crop looks a lot more like the Xantech, and maybe they have changed the type of circuitry, too.

Ok guys Xantech uses 3 wires and Niles 4 am I missing something here?

These work great. I've installed a few with Sony plasmas and no problems at all.

I have been having problems Xantech and Sonance working with Panasonic. Does the Niles IR sensor work well with the Panny plasmas?

Speakercraft also makes a "plasmaproof" target that we have had great luck with.

I have a Panasonic plasma, and the amplifier (Yamaha) does not always respond to the IR commands when the plasma is on. Other components don't seem to have a problem. I have the older version of the Niles sensor (looks like the MS200, but I believe was called MS2---it is 3 years old). It is connected to a Niles IRP 6+ by 3 wires. The repeater unit is very difficult to get to. Would it be possible to buy the new MS200 from Niles and splice it to the wires from the old sensor?

I must be the one missing something because I have never had a problem with plasma interfering with IR!

What brands of plasmas are y'all using that cause problems with Xantech's stuff?

Guys, the recieving eye is application specific, ie., check your bandwidth frequency of the gear before getting one. If the gear is ever going to be changed, make sure its replaced with the correct gear that operates within the recieving eye bandwidth.