I refuse to believe I am the only person who finds they don't need 99% of the features on many receivers, but seems to have no choice but to purchase them. I'm turning to the forums for help, hoping I am wrong, but fearing I am right.
I'm putting together some old components for a second room, and I can almost do it right. I have a TV with HDMI in, but only a single port. I have three devices that can do HDMI out (AppleTV, PS3, HD Cable Box). Right now I'm using a $29 3 port HDMI switch to get them all in the TV.
But, you guessed it, all I have is 2 channel stereo sound coming out of the TV, the little, poor quality TV speakers.
I have extra speakers, enough for a full 5.1 setup in fact. What I don't have is a receiver.
So what I want is a receiver that has 4xHDMI in (one extra for expansion), 1xHDMI out, 5.1 speaker connections, and NOTHING else.
In particular I have absolutely zero use for:
However, every receiver I can find with 4xHDMI and the necessary decoding circuitry has a TON of legacy baggage with it. I refuse to believe I'm the only one who has a room where I don't need all of this other junk, and it's just running up the price and making the unit far bigger than it needs to be.
Am I crazy? Does something stripped down like this exist?
I'm putting together some old components for a second room, and I can almost do it right. I have a TV with HDMI in, but only a single port. I have three devices that can do HDMI out (AppleTV, PS3, HD Cable Box). Right now I'm using a $29 3 port HDMI switch to get them all in the TV.
But, you guessed it, all I have is 2 channel stereo sound coming out of the TV, the little, poor quality TV speakers.
I have extra speakers, enough for a full 5.1 setup in fact. What I don't have is a receiver.
So what I want is a receiver that has 4xHDMI in (one extra for expansion), 1xHDMI out, 5.1 speaker connections, and NOTHING else.
In particular I have absolutely zero use for:
- AM Tuner
- FM Tuner
- Satellite Tuner
- Component Inputs
- Composite Inputs
- Optical Inputs
- Coax Inputs
- Second Room Audio
- Third Room Audio
- RS-232 control.
- Fancy remotes.
- 7.1, 7.2, 11.1, 11.2 or any other audio format.
However, every receiver I can find with 4xHDMI and the necessary decoding circuitry has a TON of legacy baggage with it. I refuse to believe I'm the only one who has a room where I don't need all of this other junk, and it's just running up the price and making the unit far bigger than it needs to be.
Am I crazy? Does something stripped down like this exist?