A receiver that produces component video out reguardless of input?

[dapercy]

The Denon 3803 higher all up-convert video signals to componet.
Also, I believe that Yamaha rx-v540 and higher do it as well.

I'm looking to buy a receiver that upconverts, so I reviewed Yamaha's site and there is no mention of any of their RX-V receivers upconverting with the exception of the RX-V1400 and 2400 which are the two newes models. Can anyone verify if the 540 does upconvert?

Also are there any receivers for under 700/800 dollars that have 3 component inputs? I have HD Cable, Progressive Scan DVD, and Progressive scan connection for XBOX. 3 inputs and only 2 ports.

[topspeed]

Dunno about Yammie's video upconversion (although I'd bet it's the same as everyone else) but Denon's definitely does NOTconvert your s-video, rca, composite, or whatever up to component. The quality of the signal will be still be whatever you used to plug it into the receiver regardless of using component out. This is straight from Denon.

[nightflier]

...Progressive scan connection for XBOX.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but unless you use your x-box for watching DVD's, you will not get a progressive scan signal out of it. Since you have a dvd player, that's probably not what you will be doing. Hence the s-video hookup should be fine for games. I don't have an x-box, but that is what it looked like when I hooked up my friend's x-box, but maybe we were only playing older games.

That said, the surround sound & bass is the real reason to connect through your receiver.

[aimen]

Yammy 1400 does video up conversion
download its broucher from yammy site for verification, here a cutting from it btw

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High Picture Quality
• Up Video Conversion to Component Video (S-Video and Composite
Video)
• Up Video Conversion to S-Video (Composite Video)
• Down Video Conversion to Composite Video (S-Video)
• HDTV (720p/1080i) Compatibility
• Wide-Range Video Bandwidth (60MHz -3 dB)
• 2 Component Video Input Terminals (fixed and assignable) and 1
Monitor Output Terminal
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dunno abt rxv740, not written in its broucher

rxv1400 is under 7/800$ i guess

regards

[dapercy]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but unless you use your x-box for watching DVD's, you will not get a progressive scan signal out of it. Since you have a dvd player, that's probably not what you will be doing. Hence the s-video hookup should be fine for games. I don't have an x-box, but that is what it looked like when I hooked up my friend's x-box, but maybe we were only playing older games.

That said, the surround sound & bass is the real reason to connect through your receiver.

XBOX is 1080i capable. Don't know if they've made any games for that yet, but I definitely have 480p games on gamecube.