Mike Romo
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- Mike Romo
hey--
So, I was looking at my latest issue of Home Theater magazine and reading about this crazy Yamaha receiver that was super massive and was jam packed with all kinds of crazy inputs and it just looked amazing. Look at all those ports! Whoo hoo!
Then I wondered, "How many people actually NEED all these inputs?" Like, really, do we need all these analog inputs when so much of what we are inputting is either digital co-ax/fiber optic or HDMI? I mean port after port after port--I just don't use.
I was curious what you all thought about this. I am not saying do away with all of the analog inputs (I use my CD input for my Airport Extress) but I wonder if there would be significant cost savings and smaller casing. Just give us 2 or 3 analogs and then let the user manually assign them. Are there any high quality receivers that do this? Or is it just a matter of "let's keep adding inputs so we can be obviously better than the competition?"
happy valentine's day!
-mike
So, I was looking at my latest issue of Home Theater magazine and reading about this crazy Yamaha receiver that was super massive and was jam packed with all kinds of crazy inputs and it just looked amazing. Look at all those ports! Whoo hoo!
Then I wondered, "How many people actually NEED all these inputs?" Like, really, do we need all these analog inputs when so much of what we are inputting is either digital co-ax/fiber optic or HDMI? I mean port after port after port--I just don't use.
I was curious what you all thought about this. I am not saying do away with all of the analog inputs (I use my CD input for my Airport Extress) but I wonder if there would be significant cost savings and smaller casing. Just give us 2 or 3 analogs and then let the user manually assign them. Are there any high quality receivers that do this? Or is it just a matter of "let's keep adding inputs so we can be obviously better than the competition?"
happy valentine's day!
-mike