Harman Kardon AVR 247 for great sound quality. However, don't get it if you will be buying a 1080p TV. It upconverts 480i/p to 720p, and then when the tv converts it to 1080p, there are jagged edges. It will work great for 720p TVs. Sound quality is awesome.
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I have about $300 in best buy gift cards and need a new receiver. I am trying to figure out what to get. I just bought 5 B&W M-1s and a B&W ASW 600 to go with a Vizio LCD TV. I want to get a new upconvert DVD player and a reciever. I intend to send all the video signals through the receiver and up to the TV with HDMI.
any help would be great.
any help would be great.
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Right now my TV is 1080i and I think I will stick with this for quite awhile. I saw that people were having problems with the HK when using the video side of things. Do these only happen with 1080P or is 1080i also a problem?
If you CAN up your budget by $99 you can get the Panasonic xr57.
What kind of TV do you have right now. Only CRTs support interlaced natively such as 1080i. If you have a LCD, DLP, LCoS or Plasma, they are inherently progressive scan and they will have a native resolution. The H/K 247 is great if that native resolution is 720p such as 1366 x 768 or 1280x720. If it is natively 1920x1080 then the double scaling problem arises. That is what happened to me. Otherwise is is a great receiver.
I would go ahead and get the H/K AVR247 and either forgo the HDMI connection or connect video straight to your TV. H/K makes very good receivers in terms of audio quality.
H/K really screwed up with the 247....by not letting users bypass the limited video processing the AVR has.
From what I have researched and demoed it is the receiver I want...sound wise..but i would have to bypass it for my HDMI sources which means I cant use it to handle the "audio" part.
Ide end up with HDMI going from source to TV.
and optical/coax from source to AVR.
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I would go ahead and get the H/K AVR247 and either forgo the HDMI connection or connect video straight to your TV. H/K makes very good receivers in terms of audio quality.
H/K really screwed up with the 247....by not letting users bypass the limited video processing the AVR has.
From what I have researched and demoed it is the receiver I want...sound wise..but i would have to bypass it for my HDMI sources which means I cant use it to handle the "audio" part.
Ide end up with HDMI going from source to TV.
and optical/coax from source to AVR.
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