I'm currently looking to buy an A/V receiver, and one of my reasons for doing so is to have most of my consoles hooked up to my TV and switch between them with a single remote.
I want something with at least 5 HDMI inputs, at least 1 component input, and a few composite inputs. My concern is the processing that the receiver does on analog video signals to be able to output them over HDMI, and the latency that that adds (I know that my TV does the same thing if I hook up an analog source to it, but if I shell out a bunch of money for a new piece of equipment I want it to perform well).
Do any of you have a brand or particular model that you can recommend for this use-case? And yes, I'm aware of the Framemeister, and it might be something I'd be interested in eventually, but not right now.
Good A/V receivers?
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I ended up not buying a receiver after all. I wanted to get a soundbar for my TV in order to get better sound than what the TV's built in speakers can produce, but without the space requirements of a full speaker set. And since most of the soundbars you can buy around here have their own integrated amplifier, it seemed like a bad idea to buy a receiver and try to get the two of them to play along nicely.
So what I did was getting an HDMI switch to add some more HDMI inputs to my TV, to which I've hooked up all my current/last gen consoles, my STB, etc. And then I got a Framemeister, which I've connected some of my older consoles to: 5 via RGB SCART (through a switch); 1 via D-Terminal (Component); and 1 via composite. That leaves about 5 or 6 consoles that currently aren't hooked up, so there will still be the occasional unplugging and replugging of cables, but I guess I can live with that for the time being.
So what I did was getting an HDMI switch to add some more HDMI inputs to my TV, to which I've hooked up all my current/last gen consoles, my STB, etc. And then I got a Framemeister, which I've connected some of my older consoles to: 5 via RGB SCART (through a switch); 1 via D-Terminal (Component); and 1 via composite. That leaves about 5 or 6 consoles that currently aren't hooked up, so there will still be the occasional unplugging and replugging of cables, but I guess I can live with that for the time being.
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Out of curiosity, which consoles used which connectors?
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HDMI: PS3, PS4, XB360, Wii U
RGB SCART: Super Famicom / SNES, Megadrive, Saturn, PSX, Gamecube, Dreamcast (through a Toro box), N64 (after I get it modded).
Component: PS2, Wii
Composite: Famicom / NES, Master System, TurboGrafx, Amiga CD32
Like I said, I can't have all of those hooked up at once, but still a good number of them. RGB SCART is an alternative for the PS2, Wii and Master System (without having to modify the consoles in any way, AFAIK).
RGB SCART: Super Famicom / SNES, Megadrive, Saturn, PSX, Gamecube, Dreamcast (through a Toro box), N64 (after I get it modded).
Component: PS2, Wii
Composite: Famicom / NES, Master System, TurboGrafx, Amiga CD32
Like I said, I can't have all of those hooked up at once, but still a good number of them. RGB SCART is an alternative for the PS2, Wii and Master System (without having to modify the consoles in any way, AFAIK).