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RE: Do HT receivers process video inputs?

Posted by cfraser (A) on February 20, 2009 at 10:42:29

In Reply to: Do HT receivers process video inputs? posted by TGT on February 20, 2009 at 09:39:32:

I know what you mean, old habits die hard. In the "old days", when the video signals were analog, and the AVRs had limited video bandwidth, it was almost always better to connect directly to the display.

But with digital HDMI, it really makes no difference. As long as your AVR doesn't do anything weird. Almost all have a pass-through mode. It's usually more convenient to go through the AVR too, so that you get AVR menus superimposed on whatever you're watching. And with current AVRs and their large video bandwidths, even putting analog video signals through them doesn't show any degradation (to me, with mine anyway).

The advantage of doing HDMI straight to the display is generally you can calibrate a particular display input. Most people get around that by calibrating a display "mode" to a particular source so they can still go through the AVR.

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