Re: Is component video and HD audio over HDMI possible?
[quote=”Naylia”]
Used is a great way to go on a receiver. Looking at some of the brands, if you can find a model from about 2 years back, you can still have your cake and eat it too. HDMI 1.3a with HD audio format support was around, and still bundled with analog in and out, along with Audessey EQ for much less money that on a new AVR today.
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Don’t even have to go that far back. My Denon 590 from last summer has component video inputs (that it will cross convert to HDMI, but doesn’t upscale, which is nice, since upscaling is where AVRs usually mess up the quality), and of course is HDMI 1.3 and does the HD audio formats. It has the full Audessey MultiEQ suite with Dynamic Volume, etc. It’s just missing the multi-channel analog input, which the set-up the 790 has.
I was seeing the 590/790 still around at Fry’s and Best Buy earlier in the summer.