[ivor84]

If I were to get a receiver with no hdmi input and I purchase a dvd player with hdmi output I guess I would have to fall back to using component connection? Or by pass the receiver and plug the dvd player into the TV directly, but end up loosing surround sound. If I had to fall back to using the component connection how would that affect an upconverting dvd player, picture-wise?

[Robert_J]

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Originally Posted by ivor84

If I were to get a receiver with no hdmi input and I purchase a dvd player with hdmi output I guess I would have to fall back to using component connection?

That would not be necessary.

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Originally Posted by ivor84

Or by pass the receiver and plug the dvd player into the TV directly

I currently do that with a pair of HD DVR's.

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but end up loosing surround sound.

Why don't you connect the DVD player to the receiver using a digital audio connection. My DVR's are connected to my receiver using optical and digital coax. I get full surround sound.

-Robert

[JeremyErwin]

Connect the dvd's hdmi output to the TV.
Connect the dvd's optical/or coaxial output to the receiver.

[ivor84]

thanks guys

[Joseph DeMartino]

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If I had to fall back to using the component connection how would that affect an upconverting dvd player, picture-wise?

Might not affect it at all. Depends on which outputs your upconverting player upconverts over (some do both HDMI and component, some do only one or the other) and how good your TV is at scaling inputs by itself. (All LCD, DLP, LCoS and most plasmas sets scale all inputs to their own native resolution anyway, so picture quality often comes down to which does a better job of upconverting - the TV or the DVD player.)

In my system (JVC LCoS microdisplay, Sony upconverting DVD player, HDMI direct and component via the AV receiver) there is not discernable difference between the upconverted image from the Sony and the TV's own scaler, or between the HDMI and component connections.

Regards,

Joe