You DO mean just HDMI, right? That's what Yamaha does. I don't know about Sony ES.
Someone was getting on me the other day for being too technical about what was electrical work. How about we all plan an installation or two using these receivers without getting technical about whether the passed signal is HDMI or something else?
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