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Question on buying a reciever with HDMI inputs?

822 Views 4 Replies 3 Participants Last post by rynberg, Jan 24, 2008

RickPas

Discussion Starter · Jan 23, 2008

THis may be a dumb question but here it goes anyway..

I have a PS3 and HD A-1 players.... Both go component, my PS3 goes Toslink, the A-1 goes 5.1 analog outs..

My tv is component no HDMI.

If I upgrade my reciever to one with a couple of HDMI inputs, and hook the PS3 in one HDMI input and the A-1 into another HDMI input, will I then be able to leave the analog inputs on the reciever for my DVD audio player and now be able to use all to their full benefits and all hooked up at the same time?

I wasn't sure if the HDMI input on the new reciever would pass thru the video and the audio, without having HDMI in the tv..

So will the PS3 be able to just have the one HDMI cable going into the recievers HDMI input along with 1 optical for Dolby digital and DTS codecs?

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Rick

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namechamps

· #2 · Jan 23, 2008

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Originally Posted by RickPas /forum/post/12909220

THis may be a dumb question but here it goes anyway..

I have a PS3 and HD A-1 players.... Both go component, my PS3 goes Toslink, the A-1 goes 5.1 analog outs..

My tv is component no HDMI.

If I upgrade my reciever to one with a couple of HDMI inputs, and hook the PS3 in one HDMI input and the A-1 into another HDMI input, will I then be able to leave the analog inputs on the reciever for my DVD audio player and now be able to use all to their full benefits and all hooked up at the same time?

I wasn't sure if the HDMI input on the new reciever would pass thru the video and the audio, without having HDMI in the tv..

So will the PS3 be able to just have the one HDMI cable going into the recievers HDMI input along with 1 optical for Dolby digital and DTS codecs?

Thanks

Rick

No (as far as I know) AVR will pass HDMI video -> component.

So an HDMI AVR will be able to switch and handle all your audio. You will still need a separate video cable from each source to the display.

Alternately you could run all video sources to AVR and run all audio sourced to aVR using optical or analog in then you can switch both audio & video from the AVR.

I believe there are no AVR that let you assign a component input to a source as video and HDMI as audio and do switching that way.

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rynberg

· #3 · Jan 23, 2008

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Originally Posted by namechamps /forum/post/12910132

I believe there are no AVR that let you assign a component input to a source as video and HDMI as audio and do switching that way.

Sure there are, most of the current advanced codec receivers can do this. If not, he'll have to do what you suggested, run HDMI to receiver and component to display.

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RickPas

Discussion Starter · #4 · Jan 23, 2008

So how will it work...I'm confused, with no HDMI on my display...I already have to run everything component to a zector component video switcher, because I don't have enough inputs..So what will I gain by getting a Reciever with HDMI inputs? Are you saying I will still have to keep everything hooked up thru component for the video, and then run HDMI for each item so I can get the advanced lossless codecs like Dolby True hd and Dolby digital plus, and maybe Dts hd master audio if the PS3 issues a firmware update....

Rick

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rynberg

· #5 · Jan 24, 2008

Yes! Welcome to HDMI.

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