Best way to hook up my blue ray player.

I have the Elite Kuros and Elite receiver & Elite Bluray player. As a purist, I was somewhat hesitent with passing my video (via HDMI) through the receiver. I have seen no video degradaton from feeding streight to plasma or through receiver so am going through the receiver. It allows me the source switching convenience (Directv HD DVR; XBox and line scaler for SD TV) as well as allows the bluray codecs (albeit I understand the codecs can pass through the analogue outputs of my bluray player). Very simple and no loss in pic quality. And my wife can play a dvd while I am at work-so double cool for moi.

Cerrot and I have the same setup and to confirm his observations I found no difference in direct connections while the system approach (though the receiver) gains all the Pioneer conveniences and operational simplicity.

Cerrot, My wife and I just spent a few hours in front of a Samsung flagship LED display which was very nice. I even found a comparatively priced Elite monitor for this friend but his wife insisted on the thin LED. My wife and I both noticed a substantial lack of detail in this LED which was confirmed upon returning home. We love our plasma.

Let's not call the Sony BD-S300 Blu ray player a DVD player. It's a Blu-Ray disc player that also happens to play DVDs.