TV, AMP, BLU-RAY options

[cw42]

I'm may soon be purchasing a new TV. My current system is documented here:
http://fp.wilky42.f9.co.uk/HI-FI/MY_HIFI.htm
although the tivo has been replaced by sky+ now, and I've got a xbox 360 and wii.

I'll probably be replacing the tv for the recommended panasonic 42" that plotless tells everyone to buy at the £700 price point
My problems:
My amp doesn't have any hdmi inputs/outputs, and I'm very happy with the sound produced and don't really feel the need to upgrade. I'm sure I've seen somewhere a switching unit for hdmi, does anyone have an idea of how I'd get sky hd, xbox360 and blu-ray into the tv (and into my projector)
As I'm happy with the picture quality of my tv, is it possible to buy a decent hd projector for under £1k? Just for films. That would be my other option.
Is it worth buying a ps3 rather than an blu-ray player? Do all blu-ray players upscale my sizeable dvd collection?

Cheers.

[headcase]

cw42 said:

I'm may soon be purchasing a new TV. My current system is documented here:
http://fp.wilky42.f9.co.uk/HI-FI/MY_HIFI.htm
although the tivo has been replaced by sky+ now, and I've got a xbox 360 and wii.

I'll probably be replacing the tv for the recommended panasonic 42" that plotless tells everyone to buy at the £700 price point

Good choice of TV . What leads are you using for the 360 and Wii? HDMI,component?

cw42 said:

My problems:
My amp doesn't have any hdmi inputs/outputs, and I'm very happy with the sound produced and don't really feel the need to upgrade. I'm sure I've seen somewhere a switching unit for hdmi, does anyone have an idea of how I'd get sky hd, xbox360 and blu-ray into the tv (and into my projector)

You can just use the amp to deal with the audio, it dosent have to swich the video also just as long as it has a good array or optical/coaxial inputs plus a few analogue inputs then as you mentioned you can get HDMI switch boxes but do you really need one? firstly you have to work out how many different connection types you will be using for example Sky-SCART Wii-Composite XBox360-HDMI BlueRay-HDMI the panasonic you mention has all of those sockets already so you dont need a switchbox for that BUT what does get complicated is when you add a projector into the mix, that means that whatever sources you want on both TV and projector will have to have 2 outputs (or a split output) or an AV reciever that will deal with all of these types of connector and have 2 outputs.

cw42 said:

As I'm happy with the picture quality of my tv, is it possible to buy a decent hd projector for under £1k? Just for films. That would be my other option.
Is it worth buying a ps3 rather than an blu-ray player? Do all blu-ray players upscale my sizeable dvd collection?

Cheers.

Im no projector expert so ill pass on that one but yes a blueray will upscale all DVD's and yes a PS3 is a good choice for blueray

[cw42]

Cheers Headcase, I'm currently running all picture and sound into the amp, then a single cable to the tv scart, hence the need to do similar with a new tv and hdmi cable. I've a feeling I'd be better off stumping up for a new hdmi equipped amp in the long run. My current dvd has a seperate component output running to my projector, but also a scart output to the amp for tv viewing. I'm guessing something like the ps3 would just have the one hdmi output?

[headcase]

Yup a PS3 has only 1 HDMI output, you can get component leads for it but i dont know if using it turnes off the HDMI. Also bear in mind that your standard sky,wii etc.. still needs scart type video so a HDMI only amp would be useless to you, you need one that had HDMI and scart/composite inputs and HDMI output.