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  1. Selden Ball

    Looking to upgrade HT receiver and speakers....preparatory questions beforehand :)

    Phil, You're very welcome. Although it's very convenient, HDMI does have its quirks. Be sure to get cables which are certified Category 2 (aka "high speed") so that they can carry 1080p/60 video signals without loss. Such cables don't have to be particularly expensive, though. The general...
  2. Selden Ball

    Looking to upgrade HT receiver and speakers....preparatory questions beforehand :)

    The Denon AVR-890 is one such higher-end receiver. See pages 9 and 36 of its manual, which is downloadable from the Denon Web site. All analog video inputs are transcoded to HDMI and can be upscaled in the AVR to 1080p/60 if you want. It's usually better to do the scaling in the display, though.
  3. Selden Ball

    Looking to upgrade HT receiver and speakers....preparatory questions beforehand :)

    Sadly, model numbers aren't as much of a guide to improvements as they used to be. Many newer AVRs with what seem to be sequentially larger model numbers actually have poorer performance or fewer features than the previous year's supposedly comparable model. :( Per-channel wattage values are...
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