You have a Pioneer, also.

Let me get this straight: you have your source media in one room, but can play it in another room?

 

A lot of receivers now control multiple zones, Skip. I got some outdoor speakers I was going to put by the pool for this.

<--- Lazy though.

 

My Denon can do two zones, IIRC, but I have never used it. I understand setting the source media to play in another room. But the only way to control(play, stop, change channels) a media source in another room would be via RF and not IR.

 

Yep. RF or an IR repeater. The way you've complained about your receiver, I wasn't sure if it would have multizone or not.

 

[QUOTE=e3opian,Sep 12 2007, 08:43 PM] Yep.

 

He's not talking about a multi-room receiver. The monoprice.com 5-to-1 HDMI switcher comes with a remote to select the input. So he's using that remote to change the source on the monoprice 5-to-1 and all the sources are in the same room. Hope that makes sense. He's just using this 5-to-1 in his family room to connect the sources in his family room and he happens to have different room with all his home theater equipment.

I have an HDMI capable receiver, but it only supports 2 HDMI inputs, and my TV supports two, for a total of 3 possible sources via HDMI. As it stands right now, I have all my HDMI inputs used, PS3 uses one, my HD-DirecTivo uses another, and I have an MPEG4 DirecTV H10 receiver which uses the last.

If I got a new Xbox 360 with HDMI support or something else that needed HDMI, I would need a new receiver or one of these 5-to-1 HDMI boxes to add any additional HDMI inputs. The cheapest solution would of course be the 5-to-1 HDMI box, and since it supports switching sources via remote (IR), I could program my Logitech Harmony remote to do all the switching automatically for me.

 

Skip,

I'm not doing dual zones with the receiver in the basement. For the family room I'm just using the tv speakers, but the wireless media player will play all my computer content (video, music, pictures) on the tv. I'm using the HDMI switcher because I have 3 sources but 2 inputs.

Rob

 

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