Can a receiver combine A/V from HDMI & component?

[evosero]

I have a Sony rear-projection TV and 6.1 receiver from 2002, and just got a Sony BDP-S770 blu ray player last winter. The TV does not have HDMI (nor does the receiver) so the BD player is connected via component cables and optical audio.

I want to be able to get HD sound from my blu rays, so am looking at upgrading the receiver. Problem is, even with a new receiver the TV still doesn't have HDMI.

I want to know if it's possible for a receiver to be able to take a video signal via component and an audio signal via HDMI and essentially "combine" them such that I can better utilize my BD player.

If so, is it a common feature? If it's not common, can anyone suggest any models (budget is around $300-400)?

(Without getting into why, I cannot upgrade the TV first, and cannot afford to upgrade both at the moment. If a receiver capable of the above does not exist, I'll just have to wait until I can afford both a new TV and receiver.)

 

[jonnythan]

I don't know of any receiver that can do that.

That said, you won't really notice much of a difference with HD sound versus DTS or even DD. IMO you'll get much, much more benefit right now by upgrading your TV instead of your receiver.

 

[highfigh]

I have a Sony rear-projection TV and 6.1 receiver from 2002, and just got a Sony BDP-S770 blu ray player last winter. The TV does not have HDMI (nor does the receiver) so the BD player is connected via component cables and optical audio.

I want to be able to get HD sound from my blu rays, so am looking at upgrading the receiver. Problem is, even with a new receiver the TV still doesn't have HDMI.

I want to know if it's possible for a receiver to be able to take a video signal via component and an audio signal via HDMI and essentially "combine" them such that I can better utilize my BD player.

If so, is it a common feature? If it's not common, can anyone suggest any models (budget is around $300-400)?

(Without getting into why, I cannot upgrade the TV first, and cannot afford to upgrade both at the moment. If a receiver capable of the above does not exist, I'll just have to wait until I can afford both a new TV and receiver.)

That's called 'up-conversion' and a lot of receivers do it now.

 

[jonnythan]

That's called 'up-conversion' and a lot of receivers do it now.

Well transmitting component video over HDMI is common, but I don't think any receivers let you choose HDMI as the audio input for a component video input.

 

[highfigh]

Well transmitting component video over HDMI is common, but I don't think any receivers let you choose HDMI as the audio input for a component video input.

I just re-read the question and obviously got it wrong the first time. I haven't tried it with an HDMI source, but Denon receivers have a way to select the video when a source has been selected. That way, someone can watch TV while listening to something else.

 

[Adam]

I speculate that you can do what you want, so I'll throw the following out there to see if anyone knows if it's right or wrong.

On my Pioneer Elite VSX-23, I can assign both an HDMI input and a component video input to a source. While I haven't tried doing what you're asking, my assumption is that if I had the TV connected via component video to the receiver, then whatever component video input to that I had assigned to a source would get passed out to the TV. Meanwhile, the HDMI input assigned to that source would get used for the audio.

Does anyone know if that's true?