My, how times have changed...

[lsanderson]

I was reading the review of a Denon receiver yesterday, and the author faulted it for not having a firewire port. This would be scary, but it does claim to have a RJ-45 port.

Comments

[dd-b.livejournal.com]

Oh my! We're still running 1980s vintage stereo equipment (and video, except the DVD player) here, so I haven't seen much about the newer units.

What does a receiver use firewire or ethernet *for*?

[von-krag.livejournal.com]

Well DLing new firmware for one. Also you can keep a CD/SACD/DVDA in digital along with video too. Any time you do a A to D, D to A it's strips life from the music.

Firewire

[lsanderson.livejournal.com]

Is so that you can feed video in directly -- or so I would guess. I'm not sure what the RJ-45 is for other than that it can be networked. What you do with it over the network, I'm not sure yet.

Re: Firewire

[dd-b.livejournal.com]

I've actually got video inputs (composite) in my own receiver, so I probably should have thought of the idea of the receiver acting as a video switch too.