“I'm using an older flat screen tv that doesn't have ARC. How difficult will it be switching between Xbox, Apple TV, sat? It looks like all the HDMI cables will go into the receiver, then one HDMI out from receiver to the TV.”
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Are you using the flat screen as your speakers? if not, then it's no problem - the HDMI feed will send your VIDEO to the screen and the RECEIVER will handle all the audio (if you connect all your HDMI devices to the receiver's HDMI inputs). Now then, if your SCREEN is being used as an "audio source" (i.e., your HDMI devices are plugged into the screen's HDMI inputs), you need to install a TOSLINK (optical) cable between the screen's Toslink output (Digital bitstream) and one of the receiver's TOSLINK digital inputs (item "5" on page 20 of the User Manual) and "assign" that input so it'll decode, etc. the audio bitstream from the screen when you select your device from the screen's remote.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.As long as you have all your components hooked up to the receiver , you won't use the receiver ARC feature. Since the audio signal will be "handled" by the receiver, you just have to change the receiver input corresponding with the components that are connected and you'll have both video ( on TV ) and audio ( on the speakers connected with the receiver ). ARC ( Audio Return Channel ) allows the TV to send the audio signal back to receiver, using one single HDMI cable - the one you're using to make the connection between receiver and TV. It is useful, as an example, if you have a "smart" tv , you're using a TV app and you want to have the sound played by the receiver, not by TV speakers. Even if your TV doesn't have ARC feature, and you want to send the audio signal from TV to the receiver, you still can use TV's optical digital ( or even the analog ) output - most TVs ( even "old" ones) have these.
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