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Ok I am here to gain some perspective on the best possible setup. I do a lot of research and reading but sometimes the more I learn the more I seem to question everything. Ok so later this year I will be finally upgrading my tv and basically getting my "dream tv" after sitting on the fence for 2 years now. I will be getting the 55 inch Sony XBR8. I have a PS3. I will also more than likely be hooking up a stand alone upconvert DVD player, and of course I will have my digital cable box. I will be switching over to an HDMI enabled box. I had my receiver picked out but at the last minute doing some research here I found out it doesn't do pass through like advertised and it has issues with the PS3 full RGB scale so alas I will be waiting a bit on that for the new version but that doesn't matter for my questions. Let us just assume receiver X will have 4 HDMI inputs and 1 HDMI output.
Ok here is the meat of my question. In theory the easiest way to hook this up would be the digital box, the DVD player, and the PS3 all have HDMI into the receiver and then a single HDMI from the receiver to the tv. Piece of cake. I get it. However this leaves me without being able to fine tune settings on the tv for different inputs. Basically a different setting for tv, than for the dvd player, than for blu-ray through my PS3. Also some people have said that you always want to run the digital box cable as direct to the tv as you can.
Here is where I get confused. Would I say run HDMI from the digital box directly to one of the tv's HDMI inputs, then the DVD HDMI to another of the tv's inputs. Then run a single HDMI from the tv's output to one of the receivers inputs? Would that give me sound in stereo for both cable and dvd's?
Lastly I was also thinking possibly of just running HDMI from the cable box to the tv, from the DVD player to the tv, then just running optical from each of previous said devices to the receiver. This would cover all areas of video and audio.
I'm not a huge videophile or audio phile person. I'm just looking to see what most average people do. For the most part as of right now I know one thing for sure is I want to run HDMI from the PS3 to the receiver, and from the receiver to the tv. I guess I just need some direction on what would be the best way to do the cable box and the stand alone DVD player.
Would my idea work of running the cable box HDMI to the tv, and the DVD HDMI to the tv, then running the HDMI from the tv output to the stereo input?
Ok here is the meat of my question. In theory the easiest way to hook this up would be the digital box, the DVD player, and the PS3 all have HDMI into the receiver and then a single HDMI from the receiver to the tv. Piece of cake. I get it. However this leaves me without being able to fine tune settings on the tv for different inputs. Basically a different setting for tv, than for the dvd player, than for blu-ray through my PS3. Also some people have said that you always want to run the digital box cable as direct to the tv as you can.
Here is where I get confused. Would I say run HDMI from the digital box directly to one of the tv's HDMI inputs, then the DVD HDMI to another of the tv's inputs. Then run a single HDMI from the tv's output to one of the receivers inputs? Would that give me sound in stereo for both cable and dvd's?
Lastly I was also thinking possibly of just running HDMI from the cable box to the tv, from the DVD player to the tv, then just running optical from each of previous said devices to the receiver. This would cover all areas of video and audio.
I'm not a huge videophile or audio phile person. I'm just looking to see what most average people do. For the most part as of right now I know one thing for sure is I want to run HDMI from the PS3 to the receiver, and from the receiver to the tv. I guess I just need some direction on what would be the best way to do the cable box and the stand alone DVD player.
Would my idea work of running the cable box HDMI to the tv, and the DVD HDMI to the tv, then running the HDMI from the tv output to the stereo input?