Booo ... No hdmi... then again for this price can;t expect hdmi

just buy an xbox 360, no need for HDMI

how are you comparing an xbox to a 7 channel receiver?

#3 by weight, duh.

a Duck!

who are thee who is so wise in the ways of science?

I probably won't bother with hdmi switching on my next receiver. For one thing I haven't seen any with more than 3 hdmi inputs, and I know I need at least 4, and preferably 5, and I don't care about upconverting.

So, I'll probably just go with a decent 7:1 receiver and an hdmi switching box.

Right now I'm using an 8 input 1 output component video switcher to do the same thing with my 5:1 pre-component video receiver. With my Harmony 880 everything works just great.

Same here. I don't have any HDMI monitors, just DVI. I'm pretty happy with component switching. I'll live with the extra wires and w/out HDCP.

I have this receiver. Works great. The ipod dock is nice cause you can sort through playlists and songs through the system remote viewed on your tv set. Playing music at my ny's eve party was super simple. Made 5 playlists, blues, rock, latin, island, and dance, everyone was supper happy with the music, now I have about 20 requests for cd's. When it seemed like folks were getting tired and exiting the dance floor, I hit em with a new playlist.....kept the party rockin.

So 5960 + ysd-10 ipod adapter = big hit.

I have to agree with #7. I have 3 HDMI sources in my home theater setup - PS3, Upconverting DVD Player and the Cablevision DVR cable box. My HDTV accepts only one HDMI input. Most of the HDMI-capable AVRs have only 2 HDMI inputs/1 Output. With the rapid adoption of HDMI, my next laptop and camcorder are going to be HDMI complaint. Also, wireless HD tech will be rolling out this year.

The premise behind HDMI is to eliminate the proverbial rat's nest behind Home theater setups. That's why, for me, AVRs with multiple component and composite inputs are useless. The only AVRs that I have seen till date with more than 2 inputs are the Pioneer Elite VSX-84TXsi and the Sony STR-DA5200ES. Unfortunately, they both only support HDMI ver 1 And they are expensive. If you have waited for so long, you might as well wait for AVRs that support Ver 1.3 to start rolling out. Ver 1.3 is capable of producing pictures with billions of color pixels. Let's see if the manufacturers announce something new in this week's CES in Vegas.

Note: The PS3 can play regular DVDs but does not up-convert them. In fact, it does a pretty shitty job as compared to my upconverting DVD player.

I've looked at component and HDMI on the same 1080 HD screen and can't tell the difference. I wouldn't worry too much about HDMI. Number of total inputs is a much more critical factor. I would also like to see something with two outputs. One for my LCD and one for the projector.

Most new TVs have good conversion built in, or are 768 resolution anyway, so converting everything into a 1080 HDMI signal is detrimental in the first place. Component allows everything to stay in its native form, and since they sell component cables with attached optical or coax audio cables, you can forget the rat's nest.