I put together a home theater system 6 years back that I still use. The amp/receiver I picked was the Yamaha DSP-A1. It was their flagship model and was very highly thought of. The only issue it has is that it lacks support for component (or better) video inputs/outputs (uses s-video).
This wasn't a problem before since I just ran the dvd player video straight to the TV. However, it is about to become an issue once I upgrade to a plasma/hdtv monitor. I will now have multiple component (or better) video outputs that will need to reach the monitor.
The obvious solution is to buy a new amp/receiver, but spending $3500+ on a new receiver/amp really isn't an option anymore since I'm a family man now. The plasma was a hard enough sell and that was accepted because I can get it at cost and it's easy to see the benefits to it. A receiver/amp, unfortunately, just looks like a box to most people.
It's been a while since I was up-to-date on Home Theater, but I'm making the assumption that a 6 year old DSP-A1 would still be better than a new ~$1000 model (other than the upgraded inputs/outputs).
If that is not the case, please correct me and, if you care to, give me a bit of an explanation as to why it's not true.
If that is the case, I would really appreciate hearing some opinions about what options I may have from people who have stayed much more in touch with recent happenings in this field than I have. I was thinking that I might be able to run all the video outputs to a remote-controlled switching station that connects to the monitor. This would mean I couldn't use HDMI (which the monitor can support), but that's not that important to me at the moment.
Any help or time given to this would be very much appreciated!
