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Easy to set up. Well worth the money and had more options/features that the current equivalent model. Replaced an eight year old Sony with it. Fantastic sound. Many sound enhancement options. No comparison.
But all is well that ends well. I am technically challenged--I have trouble working a cell phone. I wondered why they would have designed it that way to start with--turns out they didn't. They even helped me with the settings on my Sony blue ray player. They explained that this unit was designed before HDMI and that the connections were added later as a pass-through for convenience. Saving the setup via scene buttons will allow me to to recover the settings without remembering the details.The first movie I watched, I thought I was in a theater. Tech support was EXCELLENT.
Although I had connected everything properly (digital coax audio cable for DVD), they walked me through the set up menu choices to get the sound working properly. First I confess. So I knew I needed a second audio connection for my dvd and cable inputs, but I still had trouble getting any sound from the speakers from my DVD player and had to call tech support. But the manual was VERY detailed, if somewhat overwhelming, and the connections were easy because of labels and diagrams. As mentioned, the HDMI connection only passes the audio through to the TV--will not route it to the surround sound speakers.
Receiver itself performs to expectation. From purchase to delivery there were no problems. I am pleased with this purchase.
Very impressive audio modes (about 8 different modes to choose from).Only video is passed out through HDMI port (dont know why audio was left out - thats why i gave it 4 stars). Need to input optical or coax in addition for digital audio. Excellent clarity and sound reproduction. And also does not upconvert (they dont claim the feature exists either).Not too hard to setup, happy with purchase.
even though HDMI is capable of carrying audio and video, as the instructions say "Audio signals input at the HDMI jack are not output from any speaker terminals but output from the connected video monitor". which then has to be passed back to the receiver for surround sound. Do notice that the video is HDMI pass-through only. This isn't quite made clear by the box, or the description, so beware.
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