My wife and I have been without surround sound since we got our HDTV last year. When I first got into home theater sound systems I got a “home theater in a box” kit with a receiver that was also a 5-disc DVD changer. Because we now had a HDTV, I wanted to have the best visual appearance for our DVDs and got an upconverting DVD player. The problem was that the DVD player wouldn’t connect to the receiver, which makes sense…why would you have a standalone DVD player when you have 5 built-in? Another problem was the audio from our TivoHD. The old receiver had no HDMI inputs. Because of this, we pretty much only used the receiver for listening to radio. Around the time we moved the DVD player in the unit completely died, so it didn’t make the move with us. We have been using just the speakers in the TV since, and it’s been a good experience. I really wanted a new receiver though. Not only for the audio, but I wanted a good HDMI switcher and upconverter for my non-HD stuff. Thanks to my newly employed status and our tax refund I’m now the owner of a Onkyo TX-SR806 Receiver.
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