The new Yamahas RX-V*57

[ducker]

So I was reading the article here:
Audioholics Industry Press Releases

And couldn't really tell much of a difference between the RX-V550 and the new RX-V557? OR any of the other levels aside from the addition of XM radio support.

If I'm not planning on listening to satalite radio... is there any reason I would want to pay more for the newer model? Seems like if anything this should drop the prices of the RX-V*50 models.

-Mike

 

[ducker]

A followup to my own post.... Would people suggest simply finding the cheapest price online? Many online venders I'm noticing aren't Authorized dealers of the product. and thus it voids out the MFG Warrenty... should I care? (I wanna say I do... heh) If that's the case... I need to find a quality vendor that is an authorized dealer of Yamaha and the lowest price... bah... so much of a pain!


-mike

 

[ducker]

Yet another follow up to my own post...
I spoke with a guy that was fairly knowledgable in Yamaha's lines. the 557 line will also get an upgrade to the component up... instead of just S-video up conversion, it will have composite. the 457 will have S-video up (prior, it had none). In addition to the XM satalite support.

So now the big question is do I wait a month or so for the 557 model, or go with the 550... How nice would composite component up be?

-Mike

 

[Audioholics]

Component video up-conversion is very nice to have. Other than that I wouldn't oay for an XM Radio upgrade if you aren't planning on using it.

 

[ducker]

Thanks for repling Clint.

Component video up THAT much better then s-video up in terms of visual quality? Sadly I have no basis.

Also the guy at the shop mentioned that in many instances he would suggest going component directly from, say the DVD player, to the TV, circumventing the whole receiver. Yet at the same time he stated that having component up is very nice because you can have all your electronics going to one input to your TV via the component connection.

-Mike

 

[NetGeek]

What does your TV use?

If you have or plan to get a HDTV anytime soon you will want the component; HD only works on component or HDMI/DVI connections. You can run your video straight to your TV but this kind of defeats the "Visual" part of a AV Receiver.


Component is your higest quality of video signal (besides HDMI/DVI) but a AV receiver's upconversion of composite & S-Video to component does not improve the quality of the signal but does allows you to run one cable from your reciever to the TV instead of one for component video, one for S-Video, and one for composite video.