Hot: Onkyo 605 receiver: $388 plus free shipping

[vi edit]

http://www.amazon.com/gp/produ...BLARC/ref=pd_cp_e__map

Incredible bargain for a fully functional HDMI processing receiver with high def sound decoding.

 

[Aztech]

Shows $397.01 for me...?

 

[Mitch101]

Shows $389.00 for me My Proxy is in NY.

 

[vi edit]

Woah. That's weird. Is it automatically adjusting for shipping price since it's "free"?

http://pics.bbzzdd.com/users/viedit/605.jpg

$388 in my cart.

 

[chizow]

Its different sellers. The Amazon price is the $397 one which is stocked and sold by Amazon. The $388 price is an authorized reseller that also has free shipping but it is not stocked and sold by Amazon itself. Since its an authorized reseller of Onkyo products you'll be fine for warranty.

But ya this is a nice price on this receiver. I didn't realize it supported TrueHD and DTS-ES, which is really hard to find on a sub $500 receiver (many run $1000+). One thing though is it seems the HD upconversion is rather limited, and not as good as some similarly priced units that will upconvert from all SD sources to 1080p. Still, probably a better pick for those with mostly HD sources and want the best possible sound from their HD-DVD and BDs.

 

[Basilisk]

Wasn't that an olde thread about Amazon? That they sometimes adjusted prices to match instantaneous demand?

Anyway, shows as $388 for me.


I'd love this unit if Onkyo fixed their Zone-2 design: I don't know of ANY TX-SR which will push its Digital Audio input signal to Zone-2. The only way you can get your digital Front-Left/Right channels to other rooms is using pre-amp outputs AND THE TX-SR605 LACKS PRE-AMP OUTPUTS [exc. woofer?]. For -me-, there is absolutely ZERO value to their feeble version of Zone-2 support -- I'd be better off if they dropped it and just had pre-amp outputs for all speakers.


Quite OT: A Weird Moment from FireFox (2.0.0.11) as I started to post the above ten minutes ago. I went to another Tab to check the back-side image of the TXSR605 and stumbled on the keyboard or mouse -- and all of a sudden FireFox was showing NONE of the immediately-prior Tabs, but rather a spread of Tabs with sites I hadn't visited in weeks! WTH?????? 'Never seen THAT happen before!

 

[de8212]

Not sure if this is what chizow was referring to but is it true that even if you have a 1080p source going into this unit via hdmi, it will convert it down to 720 before outputting it to your tv?

not knocking it or threadcrapping, just trying to understand if this is true.

 

[vi edit]

Originally posted by: de8212
Not sure if this is what chizow was referring to but is it true that even if you have a 1080p source going into this unit via hdmi, it will convert it down to 720 before outputting it to your tv?

not knocking it or threadcrapping, just trying to understand if this is true.

I can't speak for the 605 as I own an H/K 247. But for me, and for what I understand of the 605, it will bypass any conversion from sources that are coming in via HDMI 1080i/p.

It will downconvert 1080i/p component sources to 720p and pass them through the HDMI in the lower res states and apply any processing to that image.

HDMI 1080x in = HDMI 1080x out
Component 420x in = HDMI 720p out
Component 720p in = HDMI 720p out
Component 1080x in = HDMI 720p out

 

[Uppsala9496]

The Silver version of this was available for $379 on Amazon yesterday with free shipping.

I've been looking to get a new receiver, but can't seem to convince myself to spend more than $300.