[QUOTE="rctyke"] You won't find VGA or SCRAT in AV receivers (atleast in american models), but there are some good receivers you may want to try out. The Onkyo TX-SR606 is the best value with Four HDMI ports, and S video support, Dolby TrueHD and DTS HD Master audio decoding, and Analog to digital upconversion that will allow you to use analog signals (Composite,S video and component) to one HDMI cable, and a reasonably good price ($350-$400).
Keep in mind the PS3 decodes the lossless audio (Dolby TrueHD and DTS HD Master Audio) internally, not Bitstreamed, which means it sends the lossless audio is converted to LPCM and sends a LPCM signal to the receiver, not the native bitstream, but PCM and Bitstream sholud both sound just as good and with no differences, in this case, if you don't want trueHD decoding from the receiver, and are fine with using bare wire (Not Banana Plugs) you can go with the Lower end Sony STR-DG720, which offer 3 HDMI ports and offers most of the features of the 820 model.
Gregoroth
The Onkyo is available for £340, which is about $500 USD. Looks good but it's on a limited time sale and a bit too pricy as it is. The speakers don't seem to be available in the UK though and I'm only after 5.1. As for the VGA, it seems some Yamaha's have them but they're not the lower end, unfortunately.
Do you have any recommendations for receivers similar to the Sony STR-DG820? Onkyo's and Yamaha's looked good from what I've seen and read but as you can understand, looking through so many different models makes your head spin...
I'm sorry, that was if you don't need TrueHD decoing from the receiver. The STR-DG720 cost about street price of $250 (Which I do bet is about 170 pounds), and does do TrueHD in LPCM format (Provided your player has the decoding for TrueHD and DTS-HD Master audio, which the PS3 decodes both codecs.). If you wait, Pioneer will release an AV receiver Pioneer VSX-819, cost $300 (About 200 pounds) that has 3 HDMI ports, TrueHD decoding and Pioneer are more known for quality than Sony, though like the Sony, it lacks S video.
For speakers, there are Yamaha 5.1 NS-SP1800BL speaker package that cost $130 (86 pounds), or if you want speand a little more, Polk audio RM6750 5.1 speaker package $225 or Boston acoustics MCS100MDNT 5.1 speaker package for $200 (130 pounds). Personally, I would pay for separates though, but some speakers sets can offer good quality, and they do so.
I do not know any links on UK stores so I do not know how this will translate to UK stores.
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