HDTV owners in the US will be now not need any long messy cables and wires. Philips Electronics has just announced release of its much-anticipated Wireless HDTV Link for the US market.

With Philips Wireless HDTV Link, you can relocate your HD devices (satellite receivers, Blu-ray players and games consoles) up to 75 feet away from the TV without signal loss or degradation. With digital transmission of up to 1080p, the signal is never compressed and retains all the attributes as if it were transmitted through a standard HDMI cable

Just in time for holiday gift-buying, the Philips Wireless HDTV Link is available now through amazon.com and dell.com for around $799, and next month it will be available from samsclub.com and Costco.com. The company will expand the product’s retail availability in late fourth quarter 2009 and early 2010.

Both the STR-DA5500ES and new STR-DA3500ES are designed as easy-to-use solutions for expanding high-definition entertainment to multiple rooms of the home.

“For over 25 years, ES has represented the most technologically advanced products Sony has to offer,” said Neal Manowitz, director of Sony’s home audio and video business. “By adding features like Control4 certification and enhanced multi-room HD support, Sony continues to raise the bar in the high-definition digital home business.”

The new STR-DA5500ES model features IP network control, allowing installers to easily integrate into Control4® home automation systems. It will also support special Control4 developed and certified IP network applications, such as advanced configuration and diagnostic tools for dealers, email and text alerts, and more.

Additionally, the receiver is the company’s first to feature Automatic Phase Matching (APM), which corrects for phase differentiation between front, center, and surround speakers, ensuring an ideal sound stage regardless of speaker type.

Also new, the STR-DA5500ES A/V receiver features Sony’s innovative new HD Digital Cinema Sound®. Developed together with Sony Pictures Entertainment, the new technology was designed to transform and replicate both the sound quality and acoustics of a movie theater in the home environment, creating an unmatched viewing experience for both Blu-ray Disc™ and DVD™.

The network capabilities of the STR-DA5500ES model also allow users to easily view photos and access digital music and videos from a Digital Life Network Alliance™ (DLNA) compliant source within a home broadband network when connected via an Ethernet cable. Additionally, the connection provides access to both Shoutcast® Internet Radio and Rhapsody Music Service and functions as the source for easy firmware upgrades.

The STR-DA5500ES model offers a 120-watt power amplifier x 7 (8 ohms, 20 Hz – 20 kHz, .09 percent THD) and a variety of high definition connections, including six HDMI inputs (five rear, one front) and two HDMI outputs.

The model supports 1080/24p video signals and x.v.Color™ and Deep Color™ video codecs, as well as all the latest audio formats (Dolby® Digital Plus, Dolby® TrueHD, DTS® HD, DTS® ES, Dolby® Digital EX, Dolby® Pro Logic IIx and 8 channel Linear PCM).

The STR-DA5500ES also offers Faroudja chip® up-scaling of all sources to 1080p in the main zone and 1080i in a second zone, ensuring a consistent, sharp picture. Further, each connected video zone has a high-grade, icon-driven menu system that allows for simple device and content navigation. Audio can also be expanded into a third zone.

The model features Sony’s Digital Media Port™ for simple connection to iPod® and other digital music players, and is both XM® and Sirius® ready.

The STR-DA5500ES will be available next month for about $2,000.

Sony also announced the new STR-DA3500ES 7.1 channel A/V receiver featuring a 100-watt amplifier x 7 (8 ohms, 20Hz – 20 kHz, .09 percent THD) and four HDMI inputs. The model is compatible with the latest audio codecs (Dolby® Digital Plus, Dolby® TrueHD, DTS® HD, DTS® ES, Dolby® Digital EX, Dolby® Pro Logic IIx and 8 channel Linear PCM) and supports HD Digital Cinema Sound, 1080/24p video output as well as Deep Color and x.v.Color™.

The STR-DA3500ES receiver also features 1080p up-scaling with Faroudja processing in the main room, and in total can support two zones of high-definition video and a third zone of audio. It is fully compatible with Control 4 applications, and utilizes an icon-driven menu system for content navigation and a Digital Media Port connection for easy connection to iPod. This new receiver is also both XM and Sirius radio ready.

The STR-DA3500ES will be available next month for about $1,000.

Both ES receivers are supported by a five-year limited manufacturer warranty and will be available online through www.sonystyle.com, at Sony Style stores nationwide and at authorized Sony ES dealers across the country.

Source: Sony Press Room

NAD M15HD

It includes 4 HDMI 1.3 repeater circuits, a secondary zone for both audio and video, and 1 input and 3 outputs each for 12-volt triggers and IR controls. It’s also the first device to feature NAD’s Modular Design Construction, which the company says will let users add new features to the preamp easily thanks to its compartmentalized circuitry.

The NAD M15HD also offers a great deal of configuration options. Lip Sync Compensation up to 100ms ensures proper viewing, and individual crossover frequencies for front, center and rear channel speakers enable sound to be dialed in precisely. NAD will be selling the preamplifier in September ‘09 with an MSRP of $4500.

Advanced image enhancement algorithms along with Sigma Designs’ broadcast quality image processor comprise what NAD calls “the most advanced single-chip processor available.” Supporting all formats up to 2048 x 2048 pixels, the processor includes features such as film mode detection, a programmable scaling engine, frame conversion to and from any refresh rate and motion adaptive de-interlacing.

These new receivers will be the first to deliver nine amplifier channels. They also support dual subwoofer outputs, making them 9.2-channel models. The advent of Audyssey’s DSX and Dolby’s Pro Logic IIz post-processing modes have prompted the increase in channels. Both of these modes add height while DSX also offers the option of width. With nine amp channels, you can run any two of the following: height, width, and back-surround. An ethernet connection allows streaming with Rhapsody and Pandora with Dolby ProLogic IIz and Audyssey DSK audio codecs.

These THX Ultra2 Plus also boast THX Volume Plus, a low-volume listening mode that evens out differences among source inputs and tames the insane dynamics of some movie soundtracks.

The TX-NR5007 will feature 145 watts while the TX-NR3007 will feature 140 watts while the TX-NR1007 will output 135 watts. The 2 higher end receivers will have 8 HDMI ports and HQV Reon video codecs while the lower end model will feature 6 HDMI ports and Faroudja video codecs.

Here’s the full Press Release from Onkyo.

With support of the Digital Living Network Alliance’s DLNA 1.5 consumer electronics interoperability specification, the TX-NR807 is one of Onkyo’s first truly network-capable receivers. That means that it can play music files (MP3, WMA, FLAC, Lossless, Ogg Vorbis, and AAC) from your networked PCs or tap into a ton of audio outside of your personal collection. If you have subscriptions aplenty, you’ll never run out of music, thanks to Pandora, Rhapsody and Sirius Internet radio.

The TX-NR807 also has the almighty THX Select2 Plus certification. Other features include six HDMI 1.3a inputs, 1080p video upscaling, and on-board decoding and processing aplenty from Dolby, DTS, Audyssey and Faroudja. That includes Dolby Pro Logic IIz support, as well as Audyssey DSX soundstage extension processing. Cranking 135 watts to seven channels, the TX-NR807 is compatible with Windows 7 (for networking purposes) and the Ethernet port can also be used for future firmware and feature upgrades.

The company also just announced the TX-SR707. This THX-Select2 Plus receiver features a 7 x 100 watts power amplifier section and many of the same A/V goodies as the TX-NR807. It just doesn’t do the streaming thing.

Both receivers are now shipping to retailers. The TX-NR807 runs $1,099, with the TX-SR707 going for $200 less.

The home theater receiver handles many complex tasks. It powers your speakers, tunes in FM and AM radio stations, provides convenient switching between audio/video components, decodes the video and codecs and lets you tune the sound of your system to suit your room and preferences.

Many of today’s receivers make it easy to add optional entertainment sources to your system, such as satellite radio, portable MP3 players, and music files stored on your computer. In other words, the receiver supplies both the brains and the muscle for your system. That’s why it’s important to choose a model that best caters to your needs and preferences.

If you’re new to home theater, it may be a daunting task to figure out all the connections and how the equipment all tie in. Not to worry – all of the current home theater receivers will let you enjoy your music, movies and TV programs in full surround sound. All new models also include built-in decoding for advanced surround formats including Dolby® TrueHD and DTS-HD® Master Audio — two new high-resolution surround options available on select Blu-ray high-def video discs and players. They all offer at a minimum the 5 channels of amplification necessary to reproduce 5.1 surround sound.

Most new home theater receivers are capable of delivering additional surround choices with up to seven channels of power or more and the processing needed for even more three-dimensional sound.

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