Connecting Your System?

[flexodude]

1/ All components send audio directly to my Yamaha Receiver.

2/ All components send Video directly to the television.

This was recommened to me by the guys at a high end Audio/Video store. They felt you get a better picture quality going directly to the television, less cables to buy as well.

Why does the Receiver Manuals tell you otherwise, it seams really stupid to buy twice the cables, just to send a video signal threw a audio device.

Sorry for posting this if it has been covered before, I didn't see anything when I did a search.

 

[MDS]

Why does the Receiver Manuals tell you otherwise, it seams really stupid to buy twice the cables, just to send a video signal threw a audio device.

Connecting all of the audio and video to the receiver allows the receiver to do the switching of sources - when the video source changes, the receiver automatically switches the audio as well. With the video connected to the TV you have to switch the video input on the TV as well as change the audio input on the receiver - that requires multiple button presses or a macro programmed into a universal remote and is not nearly as convenient.

I can buy the 'fewer cables to buy' argument but 'improved video quality' is a poor excuse for direction connection to the TV as in the vast majority of cases there will be no discernible difference.

 

[mytzen]

You wouldn’t necessarily be buying twice as many video cable to run all video through your receiver and then your TV.

You should just need one additional video cable. All of your electronics would have their video outputs going into the receiver. Then you would just one of the receivers video outputs to go to your TV. Meaning that you would just have to buy one more cable.

But, you may not be able to do this if your electronics are using different types of video cables to connect to your receiver. Such as, when setting up my system I had to have each item output component video to my receiver so that it could send component video to my TV. Then again, I have an older receiver and I would think that most of the newer models wouldnt have this problem.

 

[flexodude]

You're right about the extra cables, only one would be needed.

I use a harmony remote which programs all the different activities into one touch activation.

So really it comes down to the ability to use the remote that came with the Yamaha receiver, if I were to use this.

Thanks for the answers, I wasn't thinking along those lines, I thought that maybe there was a better video signal hooking it up directly to the TV.

 

[MACCA350]

Also many tv's don't have enough inputs to support the number of components many of us have.

My tv has 3, but I have 6 video components. I also have a Projector which needs a feed from all 6 components aswell, so my connections are a little more complicated and the receiver simplifies all this quite easily

cheers

 

[flexodude]

Another good reason, all these years I kept thinking it was a signal quality reason, that makes perfect since.