I feel that sound bars + speakers directly attached to TVs has decimated the "home theatre receiver."
"Back in the day", home theatre receivers made sense when you wanted Radio + CD inputs in addition to the TV input. But radio and CD players are gone. There is just TV. Even when I do audio, I run it through the TV.
Thus why do you need a separate box? It just seems like a waste.
Instead everyone these days are just attaching their speaker systems directly to the TV.
And with wireless speakers, e.g. Sonos and similar systems, a centralized audio amplifier just doesn't make sense at all.
So all that is left is ultra-high end applications and there are few of those.
"Back in the day", home theatre receivers made sense when you wanted Radio + CD inputs in addition to the TV input. But radio and CD players are gone. There is just TV. Even when I do audio, I run it through the TV.
Thus why do you need a separate box? It just seems like a waste.
Instead everyone these days are just attaching their speaker systems directly to the TV.
And with wireless speakers, e.g. Sonos and similar systems, a centralized audio amplifier just doesn't make sense at all.
So all that is left is ultra-high end applications and there are few of those.