AV Receiver Reviews

The Pioneer Elite SC-27’s video circuits, as with last year’s SC-07, performs no video processing on HDMI inputs. The Pioneer can convert 720p or 1080i component inputs to HDMI out, but it leaves their input resolutions unchanged and will not upconvert them to 1080p. It will, however, convert 480i or 480p component to 1080p HDMI. All of the applicable Analog tests passed except for Chroma Resolution. The Analog Resolution and Video Clipping tests were run with component 1080i in (there are no consumer 1080p component sources) and 1080i HDMI out. The Digital Resolution and Video Clipping tests were run with a 1080p HDMI input passed-through to a 1080p HDMI output.—TJN