Quote Originally Posted by pixelthis
The "best" of ALL worlds is an HDMI ready receiver, run everything but the kitchen sink
into it, and out to the TV.
I got my receiver for the new lossless codecs(DTS MASTER, DOLBY TRUE HD) but
the ease of a system integrated , with the receiver handling all of the switching chores
automatically, is a nice bonus, worth the upgrade just for that.
That's all good but your missing the point. I don't care to turn all my gear on to simply catch 20 mins of the morning news. By hitting "Watch TV" on my Harmony One, I get TV sound only for news, cartoons for the kids and things like that.

When watching football or HD Movies, I hit "Watch TV with Speakers" for the surround to kick in. I'm sure I'm not the only one that uses this type of settings.

BTW, my 2700 handles HDMI just fine