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Jon L

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In Reply to: Re: Typically posted by Bob C on December 1, 2004 at 18:04:24:

There's definitely the possibility that receiver may degrade the video signal and/or do odd things. I would definitely connect all the video sources to the monitor directly for video, DVI or HDMI. Then connect toslink/coax digital audio from source to receiver.
There may be receivers in future that have multiple DVI/HDMI inputs and can act as "switcher" and do it well, but I haven't seen one yet. The new Panny XR70 was supposed to have that ability, but I see that it only has one HDMI input.
I have a 60" Sony GWIII(DVI only), Zenith DVB318(DVI), and DISH 811(DVI), so HDMI wouldn't be good for me.
But if you are buying gear now, then I don't see why you Shouldn't get everything with HDMI.

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Re: Typically - Bob C 09:27:14 12/02/04 (1)
Great info. I'll look for sources that have HDMI when I get to that stage. But let's take a theoritical situation. Let's say I have a monitor with HDMI and several sources that offer HDMI. Now my receiver or pre/pro only has 1 HDMI input so I would not be able to have multiple sources use that receiver. My question is - are there other switches that allow multiple HDMI input & (at least) 1 output? While I don't like using switches, digital to digital shouldn't cause too much degregation (if any).
- Not that simple - Jon L 13:15:03 12/03/04 (0)
  DVI or HDMI switcher is not a simple matter. For DVI switcher, several companies made/make one, but pretty much all of them had some problems or another, such as simply not working with certain brands/gear. It's not simple to get it right like a analogue switcher as it involves very high video frequency and digital circuits. And they all cost an arm.
  Which is why I would have automatically bought the Panny receiver or something similar IF it had good DVI/HDMI switcher. But no luck..
  - HDMI switcher (Open in New Window)

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