Onkyo 805 / 806 Music First

[ematthews]

OK...To ease my mind on spending a bunch for the AVR is to use it for the audio..... not video.... I still don't get it. Why do they put so much in them for video if the Blue ray players do all the work.

 

[allargon]

The only reason to utilize video upconversion on your AVR would be if you still have SD sources such as standard cable or an old DVD player. But even in those cases, depending on what kind of display you have---the display itself probably does just as good a job or better of scaling the source. So despite these possibilities, the applicable value of AVR video upconversion is still questionable...

Cable and satellite boxes do a horrible job of upconverting SD sources like multichannel TV (cable/sat). Mitsubishi DLP's also do a horrible job of upconverting SD sources. Other SD sources include VHS, laserdisc, non-XBOX 360/PS3 gaming systems (i.e. the overwhelming majority of consoles in people's homes), CED (rare), Betamax, older Tivos (yawn) and many media extender devices.

It's not all about upconverting DVD's. It totally boggles my mind that so few people get that.

 

[triplejumper18]

According to Onkyousa (I can't post links for a couple more posts):

Shows the 805 decoded Dolby TrueHD. Am I missing something here?

 

[phlakvest]

OK...To ease my mind on spending a bunch for the AVR is to use it for the audio..... not video.... I still don't get it. Why do they put so much in them for video if the Blue ray players do all the work.

One advantage of the video proccessing/upconverting is you can hook a single HDMI cable from the reciever to the TV, then run all your devices to the reciever. Your reciever then switches everything and pushes the video over the HDMI cable. Theres not reason to run additional cables to your TV or switch inputs.

I run an 805, all my devices are HDMI currently. But if I wanted to I can hook some of my older game consoles (xbox, SNES, SEGA, PS1) to my reciever. And it will pass all that video to the TV over the HDMI port.