Well, I was just about to pull the trigger on a new Yamaha receiver when I started reading about the HDMI 1.3 standards. The upgrades look to be pretty significant. Although I would like to upgrade my TV too, I can wait for the next gen or two- but should I wait on the receiver implementation too?

Anyways- should I spend 1K now and have it out of date in a few months or should I wait? Will anything (Besides the PS3, which is already 1.3) be able to use it?

 

I dunno Ash. 1080p displays are out in the wild and that really hasn't caught on that well outside of the PS3 and I suppose Blue-Ray and HD-DVD. No broadcasts are in 1080p. Heck... Channels haven't even converted over to 720p HDTV yet.

1.3 brings more throughput, colors, audio tweaks... Given what we have today... I wouldn't wait.


But with respect to the receiver, why do you care about HDMI? You should be running the video source directly to the TV and audio directly to the receiver. Unless I'm missing something, you shouldn't pass HDMI through a receiver unless you have to.

 

You have a good point. The problem is, my TV doesn't have HDMI or Digital Audio out so I wasn't thinking of that. I was thinking of everything going through the reciever as a switch and video upconvertor.

 

HDMI contains both audio and video, so one cable can do it all going from your source to processor/reciever. Assuming your reciever has a DAC built in its the way to go, in addition if you have multiple sources you will have video switching, which is expensive to do otherwise.

 

Yeah, the only reason I run all my video sources direct to set is because I like/need the ability to store custom picture settings for each input.

Otherwise, I'd run all HDMI through the receiver. It's not like the old days when running a video signal through your processor would/could degrade the signal. It's pure digital all the way through, there's nothing wrong with running HDMI through a solid processor.

 

Ash, which receiver are you looking at?