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Published: 2008-04-16 - 13:11:57 Home Theater :
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Yamaha RX-V861 1080p HDMI Home Theater Receiver: $399
Yamaha has long held a position at or near the top of the home theater receiver food chain with their well designed powerful amplifiers, rich feature set and excellent sound quality. Their current model 1080p-compatible upconverting HDMI-switching home theater receiver, the RX-V861 makes an excellent center-piece for a home theater system featuring two 1080p-capable HDMI inputs (version 1.2a) and 3 HD-compatible component video inputs as well as the usual assortment of composite and S-Video connections. It will convert all analog and digital video signals up to HDMI digital output so you'll only need a single HDMI cable between the receiver and your HDTV or projector.
And now it's on clearance on OneCall.com for $399.97 shipped - that's less than half its original list price!
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The receiver features 105 Watts per channel into 7 channels and is XM-Ready (including XM HD Neural Surround support). The receiver is also iPod-friendly via its compatibility with Yamaha's optional Universal Dock.
While the receiver does not include on-board decoding of Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio, it does fully support multi-channel digital PCM surround sound. So if you have a Sony PlayStation 3 or other Blu-ray Disc player with on-board decoding of DTS-HD and Dolby TrueHD, this receiver is a perfect match - it will take that lossless multi-channel digital surround sound signal and convert it to amazing analog sound and deliver this to your speakers and subwoofer so you can rock the house!Detailed Specifications from the manufacturer:
- Channels: 7
- RMS Output Power (20Hz - 20kHz): 105W x 7
- Total Power (20Hz - 20kHz): 735W
- Dolby Digital EX/ Dolby Pro Logic IIx
- DTS-ES Discrete 6.1
- DTS 96/24 / DTS Neo:6
- Pure Direct
- iPod Compatibility
- Compressed Music Enhancer
- Neural Surround
- XM HD Surround
- XM Satellite Radio-Ready
- HDMI (In/Out) (2 / 1) Ver 1.2a
- Component Video (In/Out) (3 / 1)
- A/V Inputs (S-Video) 5 (All S-Video)
- Digital Inputs/Outputs [O: Optical, C: Coaxial] (O: 4, C: 2 / O: 1)
- Front A/V with Digital Input (S-Video / Optical)
- D/A Conversion 192 kHz / 24 bit
- Surround Programs 17
- Night Listening Enhancer
- Time Base Corrector
- HDMI Up Conversion (Scale to 480p/ 720p/ 1080i)
- Component Video Up Conversion
- S-Video Up Conversion
- Dialogue Lift
- YPAO Calibration/Optimization System (w/Optimizer Microphone)
- On-Screen Display
- Assignable Power Amp
- Zone 2 Speaker Terminals
- Zone 2 Output (Audio Only)
- Zone Power Switching Main/ Zone2 (Front Panel)
- +12V Trigger Output
- IR Ports
- Speaker A, B or A + B
- Selectable Subwoofer Crossover
- Multi-Channel Decoder Inputs 8-Channel
- Pre-Out All Channels
- Learning Remote Capability Preset
- Product Dimensions (W x H x D) 17-1/8 x 6-3/4 x 16-9/16 inches
- Product Weight (lbs.) 28.9
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