There are AVR's that you may be able to pick up second hand like the Yamaha RX-V483 which would do 5.1 and eARC just fine but as you rightly say, due to current shortages then they are not as readily available as they normally would be.
You might blame your current situation on 'company economy', though I'm not so sure if it is even possible to retro fit things like HDR10 with a software update to old AVR's like your A3030.
Ideally your AVR should be able to handle the media you are playing so you should be able to plug directly into the AVR and then output to the TV. The simple fact is that technology has moved on and so have your requirements; you now want to play HDR files but in 2013 when your costly A3030 was introduced HDR didn't really exist and it wasn't till ~2016 that we started to see 4K HDR players etc.
I think it is more of case of your requirements increasing rather than the built in obsolescence that we too often see.
I don't think you understand what I'm saying, 1080p, 720p, 4K, 8K, HDR and so on are all picture features and I get why I need to buy a new TV even if it sets me back $3000. The question is why do I need to spend another $3000 on the AVR to get it all working? I am still just using regular 5.1 sound, nothing special. The sound will not get better even after spending the additional $3000. Yes I know, its the way its built, but why is it built this way? Reasons? Yep there is but could it have been avoided? Is there a way where we all did not have to throw our otherwise full working $3000 AVR in the bin each time there is a new picture feature that we want to upgrade to? I want to believe so.
If we break down a AVR, what are we really paying for? Is it the amplifier? The quality of the sound? Calibration features? Picture features? A $500 AVR can obviously handle about the same picture futures as a $3000 AVR so why is there a difference in price? Most would say quality of sound and hardware I think? What does the 1080p, 720p, 4K, 8K and so on really mean for a AVR? Nothing really, its all about extracting the sound out of the signal and sending the same incoming signal to outgoing. No manipulation is done, right? So when upgrading the AVR we are really throwing a way a product that are more then capable of handling the incoming sound but it is not able to repack some of the picture features to outgoing signal. To me it sounds like a big waste but I'm no expert obviously, maybe there is more to it? I get that 4K, 8K and so on demand much higher data transfer but is it really a AVR problem?
Im no audiophile so is it possible to buy a setup that looks a bit like this :
Source → Blackbox → TV
---------------↓
-----------surround amplifier → Speakers
If the blackbox was a HDFury, would that solve all the problems as long as the HDFury was up to date with latest technology? I get that we still need a standard between the surround amplifier and the HD Fury but that should not need to be updated vary often right?
I will try to connect my old Yamaha tomorrow and see if there might be a bug in the current Yamaha.
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