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This may be a dumb question... To give you an idea of where I'm coming from, I've got a 13 year old Pioneer Elite receiver that I'm finally forced to retire because I can no longer connect all my audio sources to the available inputs.
So I'm pretty dumb about "modern" AVRs. I'm still wrapping my brain around all the new features that have become available since my last purchase, but there's one thing I want to be able to do: Drive one TV in the living room, plus a smaller TV or monitor in the kitchen on the other side of the wall (so cable length should not be an issue). I want to present the same program on both screens. (Use case: The football game's on, and I want to still be able to catch the action if I step into the kitchen to fix a snack.)
The main TV and the kitchen TV/monitor will not be identical. I don't understand how the HDMI handshaking will work in this situation...I want to make sure I don't get myself into a box where the AVR negotiates a connection to the "weakest link", then duplicates that signal to the other device.
Is that a legitimate concern? Are there other "gotchas" I should be looking out for? What are the minimum specs I need to look for to make sure the AVR will present the "best" signal to each device?
So I'm pretty dumb about "modern" AVRs. I'm still wrapping my brain around all the new features that have become available since my last purchase, but there's one thing I want to be able to do: Drive one TV in the living room, plus a smaller TV or monitor in the kitchen on the other side of the wall (so cable length should not be an issue). I want to present the same program on both screens. (Use case: The football game's on, and I want to still be able to catch the action if I step into the kitchen to fix a snack.)
The main TV and the kitchen TV/monitor will not be identical. I don't understand how the HDMI handshaking will work in this situation...I want to make sure I don't get myself into a box where the AVR negotiates a connection to the "weakest link", then duplicates that signal to the other device.
Is that a legitimate concern? Are there other "gotchas" I should be looking out for? What are the minimum specs I need to look for to make sure the AVR will present the "best" signal to each device?