Denon AVR-790 (0 comments)
When it came time to put the living room back together post-remodeling, I decided it was time to change the way I was cabling things together for my home theatre. Since the last update, we've added a Siesta Sak to the room, which is easy to place within the range of a corded controller when needed. Because of that, I'm able to move my "classic" consoles out of the coffee table.
I also opted to simplify my configuration with a new receiver, Denon's AVR-790. It understands HDMI and can upscale analog inputs and route them over a single digital link to the TV. As you can see, that simplifies my configuration pretty nicely:
Or perhaps not. It turns out that it's tough to diagram a system where any of the digital inputs can be reassigned and all of the inputs have been renamed.
As an added bonus, I'm no longer using S-VIDEO for the PC's video connection. So instead of scaling 768p to 480i to 1080p and looking pretty shitty, I've now got a straight 720p connection from the video card to the TV. Mel noticed the difference right away, fulfilling one of my strongest metrics for whether a home theater upgrade was worthwhile.