Cyran said:
HDMI 2.1 standardization is a mess. I been in a market for a new receiver lately and it even worse then figuring out what on a monitor Let take something like the Onkyo tx-rz50 It have 3 40gbs HDMI 2.1 ports and 3 24gbs HDMI 2.1 ports. 48gbs at the moment do not exist in the receiver world. If you look at the product listing, websites etc there is no indication that all 6 HDMI ports are not identical. The only place you can tell is on a single page a couple hundred pages into the manual where it list what supported on each HDMI port. It still don't list speed but you can guess by what feature set they allow. Then you got Yamaha who low ends have 24gbs that originally did not even work right and required a board swap but there high end receivers A4A and higher have all 40gbs HDMI ports in theory but not enabled at moment because they not release a firmware update to enable hdmi 2.1 features that require that much bandwidth. The date on that firmware update been delayed multiple times so who knows when it come out. It not even completely the manufactures fault because 4 years after the spec release the HDMI Forum still not release Compliance Test specifications for all the features.... I ended up giving up and bought something that can take earc from tv and convert it to hdmi audio so I can run audio through my old receiver that don't have earc only regular arc which not good enough for my sound setup and run video directly into the TV 4 hdmi 2.1 ports that actually support everything including earc to send to converter. I revisit receivers again in 2023. That converter was also not cheap at $188 but rather spend that then deal with a 2k receiver that I don't even know will do everything I need. |
Yeah, I'm glad I didn't wait for HDMI2.1 receivers but just went with one supporting eARC when I bought my LG C9 two years ago.
