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You must point directly at the receiver. Pointing the remote just a bit to the side of the receiver does nothing. Overall, it's a pretty good receiver. I have several components on the same rack and they all get the IR signal except the Sony receiver. It sounds small, but I'm regretting my purchase because of this. But the IR sensor is very weak. I have a Logitech Harmony One remote that constantly fails because all components get the signal except the receiver.
I always leave my HDTV with NO OVERSCAN so if it bothered me that bad I could set the aspect ratio to overscan a little. There is a faint green line at the top of the screen and thats probably because of the conversion from component to HDMI and scaling of resolutions. Again not a big deal to me. Good build. Good analog to digital conversion with the exception of my XBOX 360. Not a perfect receiver, but for the price point I have really no complaints. Does exactly what it says. Unless you just want to go with the ES line of receivers this should fit most peoples needs.
from the front speakers and only using the subwoofer for lows and the sound is then unnatural. Luckily Sony customer support was helpful and I was able to return the product to a local Sony store.
For listening music I need to manually change also the speaker DSP setup.Additionally after a week or so, the HDMI circuitry broke and I had to ship the amp back to Sony return center, as the dealer refused the return since I had not the saved the original packaging. Sounds thick, right.
Installed as 5.1 with big front speakers and small rear. However, estimated time to get it back is 20 business days -- a month that is.Two stars: this expensive box must be able to work perfectly and automatically with any speaker combination and destroying original shipping cartons should not void the amazon return policy on defect items.
The digital circuitry does not work well with this setup - only allows setting all speakers "Small" or "Large". Suggests using "Small" but seems then to cut off all low freq.
Would be one but Sony customer support deserves the other one -- assuming I'll get the product back fully functional
Index is a joke. Pros- Solid, heavy construction.- Simple, clean front panel, very readable display.- On screen GUI interface offers fine-grained control of settings- Switches between 4 HDMI inputs.- Input source upconversion up to 1080p- Automated speaker calibration with supplied microphone- Decodes most audio formats- Excellent sound quality, plenty of power.Cons- Instruction manual is very poorly organized, much as if a list of all the chips on a your computer's circuit board would somehow tell you how to use the computer. Manual appears to have been translated by a non-native English speaker.- Bazillion button remote control not designed for convenience or ease of use.- Second HDMI output would have been nice (but good luck finding that anywhere.).Bottom line- 1080p upconversion, GUI interface and 4th HDMI input makes the STR-DG920 well worth the premium over the STR-DG820.- But why oh why doesn't Sony (and not just them) take a lesson from Apple for instruction manuals and TiVo for remote control design.- Outstanding feature set and price/performance ratio make this a winner in the mid-price A/V receiver market as of 8/2008.
That was pretty much the only thing that swayed me. Performance is pretty good for the price point. It is quite minor but I do have a 1080p LCD.The Sony is very easy to set up. I will probably upgrade this in a couple of years when I am able to get back to a true 7.1 setup.Highly recommend this product. The HDMI handles every pretty seamlessly and my non-HDMI (component) items just needed the video and audio port selection done and that was it.I like the fact you can rename any of the ports via "GUI Mode" and the speaker set up was a breeze. The microphone worked like a charm (all 1 minute of use). I needed a relatively inexpensive AV receiver with at least 3 HDMI inputs and able to send *all* inputs through the HDMI output to the TV.
This Sony upconverts to 1080p. Onkyo TX-SR606 was the only other receiver I was able to find that met these specs, and since I have an Onkyo, I wanted to stay with that brand. The catch was that the Onkyo would upconvert non-HDMI inputs to 1080i. I would not go as far as saying this has better audio than a Denon or Onkyo but it handles itself well.and it allowed me to rip out about 8 cables.Connections used: three HDMI in, one HDMI out, two component (with one analog and one optical for audio) and one analog audio (soon to be optical)
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