Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion Technical Questions Help with Denon 3808 input setup please

Hu….. that could be an issue. Is your heart set on continuing the use of the DVD player and BD-93 both? The BD-93 is arguably the best up-scalling DVD player on the market right now, as well as being a great BR player, and CD player.

If you could dump the DVD player, that would free up an HDMI port and would make things much simpler. You could then assign like inputs to each like source.

Having said that, and assuming you don’t mind loosing the DVD player, I would do this:

BD-93 – HDMI # 1 (DVD)
WDTV – HDMI # 3 (TV/CBL)
Satalite – HDMI # 4 (DVR)
Wii – Component # 2 (HDP) / HDP Analogue Audio Inputs
CD – CD Analogue Audio Inputs

If you do this, there will be no doubt that you will be able to make all your audio / video selections.

Michael, unfortunately I need the DVD player. It's a 400 disc carousel (along with my CD player} for ease of access because of my disability. Your suggestion is great but won't work in my case.

OK. I'll experiment some and get back to you.

Thank you very much for the help, Michael.

Michael, I just received this recommendation on AVS-

Assign:
Oppo BDP-83 (under name HDP to HDMI-2)
Sony 400 disc carousel (under name SAT reassign to HDMI-1)
WD TV (under name VCR reassign to HDMI-3
Satellite receiver (under name TV/CBL to Component-3)
Wii (under name DVD to Component-1)
Plug Satellite and Wii Audio (Red & White) under the same names (TV/CBL and DVD resp)

That should work Cam.

Thanks Jay,

I also just received this response which helped me understand assigning inputs-

"you need to free your mind from the shackles of rigid input assignment

All of those inputs can be assigned to whatever name you choose!! The only limitation is the number of names the Denon has available, and the 3808CI has plenty of input names that you can use.

See my setup guide, lesson number one is to IGNORE THE NAMES that Denon chooses to put by the input, you are the master of the inputs and you can reassign them as you need!

The limiting factor here is that analog audio (red/white RCA) can NOT be assigned, so those are your restrictions in terms of name.... so just make sure that the red/white analog audio input you use doesn't conflict with any of the HDMI assignments you have made.

The nice thing about input assignment is that you don't have to physically move the HDMI cable if you need to free up that "name", you can just reassign it in the menus. For example, if you plug into the red/white "DVD" inputs but the "DVD" name is taken up by an HDMI component, you can just reassign that HDMI input to something else (like "VCR") and then the "DVD" name is now free to use for something else.

And remember that you can also rename the inputs! So at the end, it doesn't matter which name you started with..."

Thought I would post it in case someone else would benefit from it.

It's nice to be able to just switch things around and re-assign the receiver as opposed to having to re-program the Harmony :).

That is sweet. I wish my receiver had assignable names.

As corny as it seems, for all the technical attributes, the assignable input names was one of the things I was looking forward to most about my 3808. I got really tired of trying to remember which component was under the "Satellite" input or whatever.