receiver with easy interface switching inputs etc.

[starless]

Hi,
I'm looking for a new receiver. The cheap/old Yamaha one I have at the moment is too complicated to use, at least partly because of lack of audio inputs! (It has only one optical in, so I use a manual optical switch to go between DVD and TV input. (My 5yr old Pioneer TV doesn't send audio out over HDMI - is that standard?))

Anyway, I'm looking for something at "modest" price that can handle connections from a TV, DVD player, airport express, Roku box). Easy to use interface would be a big plus. (My spouse is completely confused by my current setup, and I'm even semi-confused by my rube goldberg setup.)

Room is fairly large, just started up upgrading speakers and ordered some Monitor 70s for front speakers.
Thanks!

[nguyendot]

Most tvs don't send out audio over hdmi...you're talking about return audio channel. It's still very rare.

Get an onkyo 608, it's easy to use.

[starless]

Get an onkyo 608, it's easy to use.

Thanks for the suggestion.
The Onkyo, like other similar things I glanced at on Amazon, only seems to have two optical inputs. This seems problematic if I want to connect TV, airport express, and potentially DVD player and a roku.
Am I missing something?
(Maybe I need DVD/bluray player with HDMI connector and don't worry about the roku??)

[nguyendot]

I figured you wanted to use HDMI for audio, not optical....
Most new receivers with hdmi don't have more than 2 optical, it's getting rare. I just looked down the entire line of onkyos and they all have 2. Marantz too.