Help Decide Receiver war.

[jacquescas]

So here is the deal. I have a Denon 2307 powering my Pioneer 60" 1080p Kuro plasma display. I have Cerwin Vega Home Theater 5.1 surround sound. I'm not too happy with performance of my receiever since it doesn't deinterlace and the HDMI is just 1.1

So i'm really want something that upconverts to HDMI has optimum HD settings since it will be a TV/Movie watcher for 80% of the time, games 15% and music the other 5%.

my price range is about $1300.

I'm debating between these:

Denon 3808CI

Yamaha RX-V3800

Sony STR-DA5300ES

Onkyo TX-SR875

Pioneer Elite VSX-94THX

i want something that will upconvert up to 1080p with just about everything. If someone else has a good suggestion let me know. I want lots of HDMI inputs. good de interlacing.

 

[AdrianMills]

i want something that will upconvert up to 1080p with just about everything. If someone else has a good suggestion let me know. I want lots of HDMI inputs. good de interlacing.

This beggars the question; why do you want anything else to do the scaling rather than the 1080p Pio which by all accounts has pretty incredible built in processing.

I have a 768p Elite Kuro (actually it's not called "Elite" over here but whatever) and I can attest to its very good processing; the 1080p screen is supposed to be even better according to reports by those that have both.

 

[Jeje2]

This beggars the question; why do you want anything else to do the scaling rather than the 1080p Pio which by all accounts has pretty incredible built in processing.

Well - AFAIK the Onkyo 875/905 are leading this combat with HQV Reon-VX video processor chip. (At least beats Denon & Yammy) - So what does Pioneer use?


For me this battle is fought between:
Denon 4308CI
Yamaha RX-V3800
Onkyo TX-SR905
Marantz SR8002

 

[fmw]

Not only will your TV handle the deinterlacing just fine but HDMI 1.3 is pointless at this time in history. It doesn't provide anything meaningful. It may one day, perhaps. If you want a new receiver that's fine. Help yourself. But don get confused about how it will affect the performance of your system.

 

[Seth=L]

The Onkyo TX-SR875 offers the best video scaler of those receivers listed.

 

[Ax-man]

Seems like I read somewhere that the Onkyo TX-SR875 was having some heating issues?

I too have been keeping an eye out for one of these new receivers and have been the type who likes the tried and true stuff, it's tough trying to decide.

 

[jacquescas]

so the pioneer
tv does all the deinterlacing fo me? i had no idea, in that case i may just stick with my 2307 denon.

 

[Adam]

so the pioneer
tv does all the deinterlacing fo me? i had no idea, in that case i may just stick with my 2307 denon.

Yep, it does it for you. Anymore, TVs do it, DVD players do it, and some receivers do it. The video processors keep getting better, so sometimes it makes sense to upgrade to a newer component with better video processing. Adrian mentioned that your Pioneer should be doing a very good job with it, so you're probably more than fine letting it do the job for now.

 

[Seth=L]

Seems like I read somewhere that the Onkyo TX-SR875 was having some heating issues?

I too have been keeping an eye out for one of these new receivers and have been the type who likes the tried and true stuff, it's tough trying to decide.

If the Onkyo TX-SR875 reaches to high a temperature for safe operation the oh so quiet fans will turn on and it will cool right off.

 

[AdrianMills]

Well - AFAIK the Onkyo 875/905 are leading this combat with HQV Reon-VX video processor chip. (At least beats Denon & Yammy) - So what does Pioneer use?

Actually, I've no idea what chipset the pio's use - I gather that the 1080p models have much more grunt though, as they should.

I know one of the posters over on the UK avforums.com compared both the 768 and 1080p models with and without and external scaler and found that the panels did just as well without it.

 

[mtrycrafts]

So here is the deal. I have a Denon 2307 powering my Pioneer 60" 1080p Kuro plasma display. I have Cerwin Vega Home Theater 5.1 surround sound. I'm not too happy with performance of my receiever since it doesn't deinterlace and the HDMI is just 1.1

So i'm really want something that upconverts to HDMI has optimum HD settings since it will be a TV/Movie watcher for 80% of the time, games 15% and music the other 5%.

my price range is about $1300.

I'm debating between these:

Denon 3808CI

Yamaha RX-V3800

Sony STR-DA5300ES

Onkyo TX-SR875

Pioneer Elite VSX-94THX

i want something that will upconvert up to 1080p with just about everything. If someone else has a good suggestion let me know. I want lots of HDMI inputs. good de interlacing.

For that price, why not jump into the hi def DVD game and buy that new combi Samsung BD-UP 5000 that I read a most interesting test report on. While it is delayed to Dec, it should be on sale at holiday time for less than $1,000.
I would not spend that kind of $$$ for a standard def DVD player anymore.

 

[jacquescas]

For that price, why not jump into the hi def DVD game and buy that new combi Samsung BD-UP 5000 that I read a most interesting test report on. While it is delayed to Dec, it should be on sale at holiday time for less than $1,000.
I would not spend that kind of $$$ for a standard def DVD player anymore.

its a reciever not a DVD player, i want a receiver that deinterlaces up to 1080p, but apparently my monitor does that for me.

 

[mtrycrafts]

its a reciever not a DVD player, i want a receiver that deinterlaces up to 1080p, but apparently my monitor does that for me.

OK, then it is just feeding the video, not powering the 60"
Let the TV do all that, in this case.