Using with Older HD capable DLP: Would I be able to use HDMI from my dish box/hd dvd box to the receiver and still use component out to the TV?
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The best signal you will be able to get via component cabling is "1080i" upscaling does nothing to this one way or another. Your only gain using HDMI before your TV would be less cabling as their bandwidth is worthless due to yoru tv having the wrong inputs. I would recommend the HDMI cables just incase you ever upgrade to a newer tv and find out "crap I don't have the best cables for this, now I have to go buy them."
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I have the dish setup and just need the box. What do i need to do to have it fully functional?
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You need a receiver that does HDMI Audio Decoding, which until recently has only been availabe in upper-echelon receivers. Most recently the Onkyo 605/605 and comparable Yamaha's and Denons do decode 5.1 and Dolby True HD / DTS Master Audio. If a receiver is labelled pass-through that means it won't be able to split off the audio from the HDMI signal and will just give it to the TV, and you'll have to use a separate digital optical or digital coaxial cable to send to the receiver from your DVD, DVR, Blu-ray, etc. Sucks doesn't it?
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It sounds like you only have one HDMI input into the tv. If so you can put the satellite input into the 9230 home theater system. It has 2 HDMI inputs. You would probably just leave the input on the theater system set to the satellite box. When you play a DVD it will switch automatically. Yes changing inputs is easy.
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Probably yes, I use an old "URC" universal remote to control both the (remote) HDMI source as well as the (local) HDMI receiver, just works.
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That's the point of the receiver. Route all videos inputs to the HDMI output. I suppose there will be no loss of signals, you need to configure the HDMI output to HD (1080P).
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with dish and direct tv converter boxes that are conected to the new hd tv's a hdmi cable is needed.if conecting a blu-ray dvd player to the tv a hdmi cable is needed.my rca tv is conected to a blu-ray dvd player using a hdmi cable for best picture quality and sound.if conecting a regular dvd player the colored red,yellow white cords can be used.i do have another 32inch tv in another romm in the house that is conected to dish using a hdmi cord. everything works well together.
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Yes, you just need to hook up the Component inputs from the back of your receiver (or cable box) via a long cable to the projector. Use the VGA to Component adapter supplied. Problem is it is not easy to find a 20-30' Component cable - I had to have mine made up at Best Buy - then found one for special order on Radio Shack site for 1/2 what I paid - but you probably won't find any component cables in regular store over 12'. Mine works great. Since my Home Theatre has a built in DVD player, I don't use the optical audio out since I elect to play DVD's through the Home Theatre - which keeps wiring simplier (power cord and component cable)
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I have 3 components connected to my receiver - An Amazon TV, a Blu-Ray disk player and the Directv receiver - all using HDMI cables. You do need to have the receiver on, but how else would you get that beautiful sound! If your DirecTV receiver doesn't have an HDMI output, you can connect the DirecTV box to the composite video inputs on the front of the receiver and select the V-Aux input on the remote control. You may be able to connect it to one of the composite video inputs on the back, but I didn't try that. I hope that helps. TopCatOnyx
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Jeremy,Since this device converts HDMI to a standard definition analog signal there should be no issues with HDCP, which is to prevent HD digital to HD digital copying. If your 'older flat panel' is really SD then this is what you want. If your TV is HD capable, you'll want an HDMI to component (red, green, blue) or HDMI to DVI adapter (see HDFury.com). I am using the Sabrent to connect the zone 2 HDMI output of my Denon AVR to a DVD recorder that only has composite (yellow, red, black) and S-video inputs, and it works well.
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Paul - what do you mean by "receiver" - I would be connecting the DVD player directly to my Samsung LCD TV (Samsung LNS3251D 32" LCD HDTV) using the 2nd HDMI input. Am I good ?Also I found this comment about my Samsung: its HDMI connections still support version 1.0 and I cannot connect my Toshiba DVD player which supports Ver1.1 HDMI specs - Is this a problem if I get the A20? Thanks in advance....jon battle
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Not sure if this is the answer you're looking for, but my issue is with component input from satellite receiver and especially when there are changes in screen format at commercial break, and/or heavy action scenes like bright flashes/explosions, etc. I DO not find that there are any issues with hdmi input from my blu-ray player or DVD/VCR. Appears to me that there is an issue processing the action quickly enough. I contacted Onkyo online a month ago and never received a reply.
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I've run mine from my Dish main receiver to this splitter then to my HD TV and my HD projector with a 25' HDMI Cable. Works great what plays on the tv plays on my projector. However we watch our main tv 90 % of the time without using our projector and about 50% of the time I get an error message on my TV screen that said audio not compatible with this device. By accident I found at all I had to do wasto turn off my Dish box with the remote and turn it back on again and voila! Audio worked.
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In theory, yes, as that is what powered HDMI splitters are supposed to do...take the original signal and amplify it so a clean signal gets to multiple devices. In practice there are sometimes problems when connecting to equipment that is several years old as they may not have implemented the later HDMI standards. For instance, I wanted to send HDMI to a new tv at the end of a 50 ft hdmi cable as well as a four year old 'smart tv' adjacent to the dish receiver. Both tvs would get the same channel although only one would be turned on. The splitter worked fine for the newer tv, but the older one would never have audio UNTIL power was cycled on the splitter. I tried several splitters .... all exhibited the same symptom. Apparently the older tv didn't have the same interface standards as the newer so I do not think ANY splitter would have worked as I intended. Bottom line is you just have to try it. Chances are it will work.
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What about audio? Specifically, if I have the STR-dg810 as my receiver. I have Blu Ray DVD and HD sat receiver, both of them would use the HDMI connection. However, I also have a Wii I woud like to connect, but Wii only has component video out. So, I should connect the Wii component video out directly to the TV as the receiver won't up convert the signal to use the HDMI out port. Does this also mean the receiver won't pass through the Wii audio to my speaker system? Am I stuck with only having Wii audio via my TV's speakers?
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Kevin is right. But as an option I ran the HDMI from DVD to receiver with HDMI pass through feature. Receiver extracted audio from HDMI and converter handles video. This way I got surround. I didn't use the stereo only audio out of the converter.
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Yes, it can from a VIP622 or VIP722. SD Content only, no HD. You'll need the dish network plugin which is downloadable from Archos's website:http://www.archos.com/store_us/family_b.html?country=us〈=en&fam;_id=0000000013&gen=5