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watch the heat

Many of the Onkyo receivers seem to have a problem with heat. There are numerous posts at AVS Forum re: owners complaining about their receivers getting very hot vs other brands. You might want to check this out to be on the safe side and, if you decide to go with Onkyo, place the receiver in a well ventilated area.

Also, be aware that there are receivers on the market which have HDMI v1.3 connections that do not decode or process audio (in any way, shape or form) via HDMI. Yes, that's beyond retarded, but it's true.

Keep in mind that you do not need a receiver that decodes the advanced audio codecs (DTS-HD Master Audio, Dolby TrueHD, etc) if your Blu-ray player can handle the decoding and output multi-channel PCM. As long as the receiver can process multi-channel PCM, you'll be OK. The only catch is that not all receivers can process (not talking about decodeing here) multi-channel PCM (ie, add 2 channels to 5.1 soundtracks to make them 7.1), if that's what you want. If all you want is 5.1, then there's no concern.


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  • watch the heat - Joe Murphy Jr 21:12:58 11/17/08 (0)

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