Home cinema help

I have just bought my first AV (Audio/Visual) receiver, a Yamaha RX-V357.

I have connected up the sound, and can now get my Sattelite TV, DVD and VCR
through the six speakers.

But I am having trouble understanding the benefit of putting the picture
through the Receiver.

Currently all the devices (Sattelite, DVD and VCR) are connected to the TV
via scart sockets.

What do I gain by putting them through the receiver ?

Guilbert

[jbk]

The answer in your case may be not much, in fact, the receiver can deteriorate picture quality in some cases, however it all depends on the connections available on your tv. A lot of people connect their components through the receiver because it is convenient (and cheaper) to have just one connection between amp and tv than multiple. Another benefit is that amps usually have more high quality connections than most tv's (ie multiple component connections). If your tv has a component input (assuming no dvi or hdmi connections) and your av components also have component outputs then this may provide a better picture than the scart connections, however, i cannot tell you this for sure as to my knowledge scart just refers to the type of connector (not the quality ie. composite, s-video, component).

[thornton melon]

Send your picture direct to your TV,either by COMPONENT or S /VIDEO,depending how old your TV is.This will be the best possible image.

[SA000584]

Originally Posted by Ext User(Guilbert)

I have just bought my first AV (Audio/Visual) receiver, a Yamaha RX-V357.

I have connected up the sound, and can now get my Sattelite TV, DVD and VCR
through the six speakers.

But I am having trouble understanding the benefit of putting the picture
through the Receiver.

Currently all the devices (Sattelite, DVD and VCR) are connected to the TV
via scart sockets.

What do I gain by putting them through the receiver ?

Guilbert

Being able to utilise the video switching function. To do this you need at least two video signal inputs (say sattelite and dvd) into the receiver and then one cable from your receiver to the tv.

Some receivers require you to use the same type of video signal for video switching (eg all composite, all svideo or all component) however other receivers up convert all video signals into component (therefore you can use a variety of different video signals in (one composite and one s-video) and get component signal into your tv).

So the benefit of this set up is that you dont need to change the channel on the tv (eg from av1 to av2 to av3) and then change the input on the receiver for the sound every time you want to use a different input. Instead you change the input on the receiver and it picks up the sound input as well as the video input.

It is really only there for convenience, unless you have a really old Tv with not many inputs.