What are HDMI inputs? > On Aug 13, 2016, at 7:04 AM, Sieghard Weitzel <siegh...@live.ca> wrote: > > Ultimately I think you may want to work towards a setup with a smart TV which > either gives you several HDMI inputs or you could use an HDMI splitter which > you can get with as little as two but also with 3 or 5 inputs and 1 output. > This way if your TV only had 1 or 2 HDMI inputs you can hook it up to one of > these and maybe instead of hooking up the Apple TV fourth gen to the > splitter, hook it up directly so the TV can sense when it is being used and > automatically switch to it. > I would then suggest you may want to look at a Sonos Playbar, Sub and two > Play 1 or Play 3 speakers as rear surrounds. If your room is very large I > would consider the Play 3's for that otherwise the Play 1 speaker would be > fine. > This gives you an extremely accessible system (especially if you could find a > smart TV which offers accessibility for the TV) and you also get your Sonos > experience and access to all the content in the living room with a minimum of > equipment, cbles and speakers. > I had a very high-end Sony receiver which as it was from 2009 was not yet > connected and had no app to control it and it was hooked up to pretty good > speakers, but I don't regret putting it all aside for the above described > Sonos system. The sound is very good but a bit different since of course you > get better separation with two speakers that are standing 8 or 10 feet apart, > but while different the sound is awesome with the Playbar, Sub and rear > speaker setup. > My TV is definitely a relatively dum TV compared to what's out there today > since it's a more or less first generation Sony 40 inch LCD TV's which I > bought after Christmas in 2007, but it has 2 HDMI inputs and lots of others > like 3 Component inputs, 3 Composit/RCA, an optical audio out and even a > computer monitor input and an old S-Video. We use the HDMI inputs for the > Apple TV fourth gen and what is probably a specialized Android box from the > Filipino Channel for my wife and then we have a satellite receiver we rarely > use hooked up to one of the digital component inputs. We use the Sony blueray > player even less often so it's not even hooked up and we just switch it with > one of the HDMI devices if we want it. > > > Regards, > Sieghard > > -----Original Message----- > From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of > Jesper Holten > Sent: Saturday, August 13, 2016 12:36 AM > To: viphone <viphone@googlegroups.com> > Subject: Yamaha musucCast recievers smart tvs etc > > Hi all. > I am happily using Sonos for our musuc enjoyment in the household. > However, we are also using HDMI devices such as the apple tiv and more will > join the house as our son grows older I suspect. I Therefore, I want to have > a better multimedia setup than we currently have. Right now we have a dumb > tv, and apple tv 3rd gen, and a 2 speaker setup with a hifi applifier, and a > DAC and a sonos connect. But we want more control over the tv, and currently > we consider the following options 1. Getting a sony android tv though the tv > we have is working perfectly well and that may not solve all our problems. > 2. An apple tv 4, and then do the cable wire cutting and depend on apps. Note > we live in Europe so Dish tvs sling tv is not an option. > 3. A Yamaha av reciever with HDMI and other digital connections, but the > sound quality may be going downhill compared to what we have now, but as far > as I understand some of their new recievers and speakers can be controlled > through Yamahas musicCast e eco system and app. And on a mystic access > podcast I heard recently it should be somewhat accessible. > I just wonder if any one having any experiences with the yamaha Musuccast > setup or any other tvs that can be run by Android and which is accessible_ > Thank you in ad ance, best regards, Jesper. > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - > you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - > you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
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