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fo those that don't know the stroy: Trailer for possibly upcoming movie:

This is one of my favorites series. I know of six books; Prelude to Foundation, Foundation, Foundation And Empire, Second Foundation, Foundation's Edge, and Foundation And Earth. Long live Hari Seldon.

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I've had a practically parallel experience with the story; IMO, it's wonderfully told by Asimov. Isn't 'pebble in the sky' also loosely related to the foundation?

Looks like we have a Asimov fan club here. Most of his book are related in some way to the same Foundation universe and empire. One character that plays prominent role through out this Galactic Empire and in the Foundation series is the Robot R. Daneel Olivaw. There are three books on my wish list related to this series and known as the "Second Foundation Trilogy" . Written by other authors and supposedly completes the unfinished saga. "Foundation's Fear" by Gregory Benford "Foundation and Chaos" by Greg Bear "Foundation's Triumph" by David Brin

Looking forward to it. I have been watching for more news on this. Last year I read the trilogy plus "Foundation's Edge" and "Foundation and Earth" again. I was probably 16 when I read it the first time. Then a second time in my 30's while in the Navy on deployment. Hard to believe that "Foundation" was first published in 1951.

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I guess not, but there are some other pre or se quels that you might have missed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundation_series

This player continues to thrill me. I've been meaning for quite some time to get away from my multi-channel Atmos thingy receiver. The only thing that has kept it in place has been the use of the remote for input switching, control of my Marantz Blu-ray player, system volume control, and lastly the ability to break the sound out of the HDMI and send it to my stereo amp. With the retirement of the Marantz player the list of reasons to hold on to the AV receiver just became shorter. I'd just lacked the spare moments to attempt any experimentation. I finally tripped over an adequate block of time that was just sitting there, derelict, which provided the opportunity for me to play some bypass shenanigans with the receiver. I took the HDMI output from the Oppo and sent that directly to my panel display, and the analog outputs went to my highly-regarded Nakamichi CA-7 preamplifier. With everything connected thusly, I found that I had stellar sound coming through my speakers, but somehow the tv was still getting sound and passing it through my Sonos "home theater". I silenced that noise, then found that the soundtrack was playing perfectly through the analog stereo but the vocals were far, far back, as if the speaking roles were phoning in their post-production dubs and Foley from the comfort of the loo. More research and experimentation were warranted. A few layers into the Oppo audio menus I discovered a positively wonderful setting that allowed me to choose what audio output format I wanted. It was but a moment to select 2.0, no LFE, and my show was ready for the big room. I found that Oppo thoughtfully provided a volume control on the remote. With the telly managing the inputs, the analog sound playing perfectly through the stereo, and the Oppo controlling the volume for my ancient, non-remote but very rare and stellar preamp, the Marantz receiver has been retired. Its a brilliant unit but not my particular malt anymore. I do believe my adventures with multichannel are over.