Onkyo have just unleashed the TX-SR607 receiver which is the first receiver to feature vertical Dolby Pro Logic. Formally called Dolby Pro Logic IIz, this feature allows home theatre systems that have two extra front channel speakers placed up at a high level to play sounds that would naturally be above the movie watcher. According to Onkyo this new feature

enhances the spatial sensation of music, movies, and video games by letting you incorporate front height channels.

Impressive, eh? Well it doesn’t end there for the TX-SR607 receiver as the unit also sports a massive six HDMI inputs, five at the back and one at the front as well as upconversion to 1080i for analog input. You can also hook up an iPod dock via the proprietary U.Port. Other details include

* 7.2 Channels
* 90 W per channel
* Dolby Decoder DD PLus, TrueHD, DTS Decoder DTS-HD Master Audio
* Dolby PLIIz
* Onkyo Game Surround Modes
* 192K/24 Bit DACs
* 2 Optical Audio Inputs
* 2 Component Inputs
* 6 HDMI V1.3a Inputs
* Analog to HDMI Upconversion
* 1080i Upscaling
* 435 x 174.3 x 374.7 mm
* 10.8 kg

The Onkyo TX-SR607 also sports quite a nice US$600 price tag too and will be available in April. This looks like a pretty sweet deal if you’re after a new receiver, given the extra bells and whistles of Dolby Pro Logic IIz. So we’re sure other receiver manufacturers will be hurrying to get their versions of the TX-SR607 out very soon!

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Onkyo have introduced two new Home Theatre systems, the HT-SP908 and the HT-SP904. Both systems come with Onkyo’s DV-SP405 DVD player which can upscale to 1080p via its HDMI output. But the guts of the HT-SP908 has to be its A/V receiver, the TX-SR605, with more bells and whistles than you can shake a stick at. For those into specs, stats and annoying TLAs, hold your breath, here we go - the receiver sports two HDMI inputs and one output, all capable of handling 1080p, on the audio front it’s able to handle Dolby Digital Plus, Dolby TrueHD and DTS HD Master Audio spurting the noise out to seven 90 Watt satellite speakers and a 230 Watt sub-woofer grunter, the receiver plays nicely with XM and Sirius satellite radio and also sports a control dock, the DS-A1X, for your iPod.

The DVD player can handle the usual media range from mp3 and wma thru wmv, mpeg 4-aac and divx, onto coping with CD, CD-R/RW and DVD+/-R/RW media formats and in case you were wondering if the receiver has enough inputs and outputs check this out ….

I started drooling when I saw that shot! So start saving your pennies now as the HT-SP908 rocks in at US$1099. Its little brother, HT-SP904, is a snip lower at $899, but is short on the audio decoding plus lacks a couple of those satellite speakers.

Source: Onkyo

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