I'm a home theater designer in NY. You should seriously consider the Yamaha line. We have used almost every brand out there. We keep coming back to the Yamaha. You should consider the RX-V2300 and the RX-V3300. They are incredible controllable with extended ir commands for just about every...
Glenn, I'm a home theater designer/installer in NY. We primarily do plasma. We had situations and actually with my personal NEC plasma I had a bad pixel when I got it. My distributer told me to leave on for 24-48 hours with no input. I thought he was out of his mind but you know what it fixed...
Yes the connections are the same. Just match the colors red, blue and green. Y = Green. Cb & Pb - Blue and Cr & Pr = Red. You want to run the audio and the video from the cable box into the Marantz. Let that do all the switching. Hope it helps.