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Re: Home theater/stereo - Help me decide -- longish Posted by Justin VanAbrahams [Email]  (#32) [Profile/Gallery]
(more from Justin VanAbrahams) on Wed, 18 Nov 2015 10:00:08
In Reply to: Home theater/stereo - Help me decide -- longish, Finch, Tue, 17 Nov 2015 21:05:22 Members do not see ads below this line. - Help Keep This Site Online - Signup |
I have set up a few of those Denon InCommand receivers and they are quite nice. Unfortunately, these days, there is no such thing as a future-proof receiver. Every few years they revise the HDMI and HDCP standards and that makes long-term involvements with receivers difficult. Denon has been pretty good about firmware updates, but some things are hardware limited.
That said, it's impossible to know how HDMI and HDCP revisions will affect you. If you're going to be watching Netflix through an app on the TV or get in an LTR with your bluray player then maybe you don't care.... I mean, if you're not changing what you're doing, who cares if copy protection standards change?
I generally advise people to get on a three year plan with HT just like with PCs. In three years, stuff is going to change and that's when to consider wholesale replacement. You don't necessarily have to replace everything in three years, but at that mark you're really going to want to seriously consider doing that vs. making new, incremental changes. Interoperability isn't what it used to be... you don't buy a $1000 receiver and own it for life anymore.
All that said, what I have found is that digital delivery changes a lot of things for a lot of people. For a long time home theater consisted of a lot of parts. I know an increasing number of people who have three components - a TV, a receiver, and a bluray player or streaming device (or a bluray player that is a streaming device). What else do you need? The days of dozens of inputs are fading quickly. Maybe something to consider when spec'ing your new equipment.
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