Passthrough is good or bad? I am still confused.

i dont own an hdmi receiver but what i understand is passthrough means receiver has hdmi for video only, no audio. you would need to use optical or coaxial for audio from player to receiver.

if the system does not do passthrough it can mean the receiver does not have hdmi connection at all. so no video through receiver. you would use hdmi or component cable from player to tv and use optical or coaxial from player to receiver.

OR

it can mean it does not do passthrough but DOES both video and audio through hdmi which is the best.

hopefully someone else can chime in but thats what i understand from all the reading ive been doing. I am looking to get the Harmon Kardan 254 which does both video and audio via hdmi cable.

since youre looking for an htib ive also been looking a the sony HT7200DH which does both video and audio via hdmi cable. i am also looking at just getting that instead of buying separate speakers and receiver.

its $449 total but if you wait for amazon to lower the price or look around you could probably get it cheaper.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg...X0DER&v=glance

lets see what the experts say. im still learning myself.

what im looking at myself (after a ton of reading) is the harman kardon 254 receiver with energy act6 speaker system. that setup gets recommended a lot here.

the 254 is usually less than $400 on amazon but today they spiked it up to $500. should go down soon.
the energy act6 speaker set goes for tops $220 on ebay.

I'm not understanding...do you need another receiver for another room or are you replacing the Yamaha RX-V463 with a different receiver?

Sub $400 receiver suggestions are pretty much covered in this thread: http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showt...&highlight=400