[RKDinOKC]

My Pioneer elite died a couple of years ago and had to replace it. Have a Sony Bravia 65in TV that has 4 HDMI inputs and a digital tuner. Have had surround sound since 1982 so wanted my setup to do that.

Decided to run all my sources into the TV using HDMI and use the TV to change sources. Have Cable, AppleTV, DVD player, and a Computer as a media server. The TV also has HDMI output.

Looked for an amp to drive the surround speakers that had a surround decoder but could not find one. Seems the quality on the Pioneer has tanked so got a 5.1 Sony Receiver to provide the surround decoding and the amps to drive all the speakers. The HDMI from the TV is all that is plugged into the receiver and once set up it basically only use the volume whick all my remotes support. With HDMI the sound quality is great.

Because the TV is an internet TV I just use it's remote when doing the Sony Movies and other tv content availale on the TV. Everything else I use the programmable Cable remote.