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Originally Posted by GranteedEV

For a receiver, I guess it depends on your requirements. I bought my parents this receiver a few months ago for their living room where I setup a basic 2.0 and they've had no trouble using it since I setup the HDMI auto-on features (this did take me a few hours to get right with their TV and their set-top-box though)

https://www.visions.ca/product-detai...143&sku=RXV385

Now if your goal is to have a 7.1 someday you probably have to step up to this one:

https://www.visions.ca/product-detai...=143&sku=RXV6A

or this one:

https://www.visions.ca/product-detai...3&sku=AVRS960H

Is the release year a big deal these days or do software updates close the gap more than hardware changes? Looks like the AVRS960H is 2020, and the AVRS970H is basically the same, but 2022. Can save quite a bit with 960 on clearance