Hey folks
I'm going to be moving in a few months and building a HT area in the new place. The system I have now is 8+ years old and there's a lot of new goodies these days. I'm going to be replacing almost every component I have and starting from scratch. I plan to go with a plasma tv, around 50". I was wondering if anyone knows of any good receivers to look into that can do all of my component & video switching through just 1 HDMI connection to the TV? I will have a variety of different video and audio sources, like for instance my Wii will connect with RCA audio and component video, my HD DVD/Blue Ray will connect with HDMI I guess.. I basically want the receiver to do all the switching so I don't have to have multiple cables going to the TV, just the 1 big HDMI cable.
I'm looking for something that can not only do that switching but something that can "upconvert" or "deinterlace" or whatever it's called, so that even the 480i sources will still look good
And of course for the HD sources I'd like it to look as perfect as possible. Any recommendations on what to look for and what I can expect to spend? I'm pretty much limited to Best Buy or Circuit City, though there's a Tweeter I can hike to. My current receiver is a Yamaha and I had no problems with it so I would be fine with getting another Yamaha unless there's something better for the same amt of cash. And last I would like a 7.1 receiver instead of 5.1. So, any ideas?
I'm going to be moving in a few months and building a HT area in the new place. The system I have now is 8+ years old and there's a lot of new goodies these days. I'm going to be replacing almost every component I have and starting from scratch. I plan to go with a plasma tv, around 50". I was wondering if anyone knows of any good receivers to look into that can do all of my component & video switching through just 1 HDMI connection to the TV? I will have a variety of different video and audio sources, like for instance my Wii will connect with RCA audio and component video, my HD DVD/Blue Ray will connect with HDMI I guess.. I basically want the receiver to do all the switching so I don't have to have multiple cables going to the TV, just the 1 big HDMI cable.
I'm looking for something that can not only do that switching but something that can "upconvert" or "deinterlace" or whatever it's called, so that even the 480i sources will still look good
And of course for the HD sources I'd like it to look as perfect as possible. Any recommendations on what to look for and what I can expect to spend? I'm pretty much limited to Best Buy or Circuit City, though there's a Tweeter I can hike to. My current receiver is a Yamaha and I had no problems with it so I would be fine with getting another Yamaha unless there's something better for the same amt of cash. And last I would like a 7.1 receiver instead of 5.1. So, any ideas? 
So I want something a little better and I'll salvage what I can for a regular stereo system in another room.
