The 20-ish year old Yamaha A/V receiver in my parents’ house gave out finally. Won’t pass video signal, and has been wonky on some other issues for a little while. I am looking for a simple and cost effective solution for them. I took a picture of the existing system (below) and will describe it:
A) Fast 5G wireless to a Fire Cube (Yellow arrow), controlling Prime Video, Netflix, YouTubeTV, PBS, etc.
B) HDMI from cube to older Yamaha A/V receiver (red arrow)
C) HDMI from receiver to modern-ish 49” 4k Samsung TV (2016 I think; originally mine).
D) Audio optical out from TV to headphones, often used (either side/around the Cube in the picture).
E) Mom uses a DVD/Blu Ray player (above receiver, not visible) to do Tai Chi.
The receiver is not passing a video signal and clipping the audio now. I can plug the cube straight into the TV and the cube and TV work as they should. This then means losing the audio power for all the speakers and the switch-in for the DVD/Blu Ray.
What is the most efficient way to replace the old A/V receiver to power the audio speakers and make switching in the DVD/Blue Ray? Or should we bother? My parents are older (mid 70s) and not incompetent, but anything that reduces complexity is valued. The multiple surround speakers are not a high priority. They could be sacrificied to reduce amplifier power needs. My dad has hearing issues and usually uses the headphones, negating that need unlike in the past.
They are not audiophiles and music is not routinely fed through this system. Maybe I just feed the DVD into the TV, skip powering all the speakers. May not really bother anyone at this point, Make the TV the controller vs. the A/V receiver.
Thanks for any advice.
A) Fast 5G wireless to a Fire Cube (Yellow arrow), controlling Prime Video, Netflix, YouTubeTV, PBS, etc.
B) HDMI from cube to older Yamaha A/V receiver (red arrow)
C) HDMI from receiver to modern-ish 49” 4k Samsung TV (2016 I think; originally mine).
D) Audio optical out from TV to headphones, often used (either side/around the Cube in the picture).
E) Mom uses a DVD/Blu Ray player (above receiver, not visible) to do Tai Chi.
The receiver is not passing a video signal and clipping the audio now. I can plug the cube straight into the TV and the cube and TV work as they should. This then means losing the audio power for all the speakers and the switch-in for the DVD/Blu Ray.
What is the most efficient way to replace the old A/V receiver to power the audio speakers and make switching in the DVD/Blue Ray? Or should we bother? My parents are older (mid 70s) and not incompetent, but anything that reduces complexity is valued. The multiple surround speakers are not a high priority. They could be sacrificied to reduce amplifier power needs. My dad has hearing issues and usually uses the headphones, negating that need unlike in the past.
They are not audiophiles and music is not routinely fed through this system. Maybe I just feed the DVD into the TV, skip powering all the speakers. May not really bother anyone at this point, Make the TV the controller vs. the A/V receiver.
Thanks for any advice.