Receiver picking nightmare!!!!!!!!!!!

Well, your nightmare is only beginning because you will get many advices all of which will contradict one another and will confuse you more than anything That being said, I am in a somewhat similar situation as you although a minor difference. I have my receiver picked, my amplifier picked, now I am getting the RS6 and its corresponding centre channel. My receiver choice I have is the Yamaha RX-V663 (for an incredible cheap price) and paired it with a Rotel 5 channel amplifier (RMB-1075) with the RS6 to come in February!! Many say that speakers are not hard to push to their full potential and a seperate amplifier is not required but decided I wanted to go that route. Rather than spending the money on a RX-V1900 which will become absolete in a year or two (as new features will come out), I figured, might as well get a cheaper a/v receiver with the pre-out and then pay for the seperate power. This way, when HDMI Y.Y comes out or whatever else comes along, its easier to justify swapping the cheap a/v for a new one That being said, for me, the 663 had enough HDMI for what I needed, had the features I was looking and...the price was right!!.......


Best of luck

I agree with you. You don't need a receiver that does the upscaling and neither one that does the new sound fields HOWEVER, most new receivers do decode the new codecs and the price of RX-V663 is so low that it is pretty hard to imagine someone buying a receiver that doesn't do the new codecs. This way, you have a new receiver that will allow you to take advantage of what your blu ray player will bitstream to your receiver. If you already had a receiver that was fairly recent and expensive and was wondering if you had to replace it for one that does the new codecs, I would have said, maybe you could wait....but since you don't, just go for it