Should I buy a new A/V receiver? Im afraid Ill buy a $700 receiver and then 1080 will be obsolete in a month.

Question

Should I buy a new A/V receiver? Im afraid Ill buy a $700 receiver and then 1080 will be obsolete in a month.

Answer 1

1080p is not going to be absolete in a month. Buy without any worries. You will get your use out of the reciever.

Answer 2

1080p will not be obsolete (in practical terms) pretty much ever.

A 480p or a 1028i TV are not obsolete now.

Obsolete means not usable anymore.

Even if everything on TV or disc ends up at a 1900 resolution someday, you will STILL be able to watch it on a 480p screen, and it will STILL look great.

In realistic terms, most of what people watch today is bleow 700, and only VERY few things are even available in 1080 now.

Answer 3

I would go ahead and get a new receiver. 1080 will not be obsolete any time soon. At least not for the consumer world.

1080 really has nothing to do with your receiver unless you are looking to perform video switching with the receiver too.

I am sure as long as it is only a switcher then it may even be able to handle higher resolutions anyway as they come available. I suspect that by the time 1080 is obsolete your receiver will also be obsolete. Do not be affraid to buy a new receiver.

Answer 4

Your reason for a new receiver is, presumably, to get HDMI switching, maybe 1080p upconversion and maybe HD audio decoding. While that isn't the main reason for a receiver I can understand the attraction.

HDMI 1.3 is able to handle higher resolution that 1080p (up to 2560x1600) so if the receiver has HDMI 1.3 built in you don't need to worry about obsolescence.

That said, resolution higher than 1080p won't be available anytime soon for consumer video, and indeed most features in HDMI 1.3 are not yet implemented (e.g. deep colour, xvYCC colour space, 48 bit colour). You would be ahead of the curve by buying a receiver with HDMI 1.3.