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Great GUI, very powerful, 3HDMI ins, plus good Remote.

Sound and Vision Magazine says:

Sony’s latest top-of-the-line A/V receiver, the STR-DA5200ES, might more fairly be labeled a V/A receiver, being one of the most video-intensive encountered so far. Among its boasts is the slickest onscreen display we’ve seen in a receiver (its style derives from PSP/PS3 game designs), the most powerful video scaler, and a host of video capabilities, including in-receiver PIP processing. Of course, there’s a long list of audio goodies too, among them precise auto-calibration and a range of surround and two-channel options, including one mode optimized for portables such as an iPod or, this being a Sony, a MiniDisc player. (I’m sure you’ve got one of those in the closet.) The receiver is also XM-ready, including decoding for XM Neural 5.1-channel broadcasts.

On first glance the Sony STR-DA5200ES A/V receiver looks like any other, but with an exceptionally clean front-panel layout, thanks to most functions being accessible strictly from the system remote — a conventional-looking, button-based affair. The back panel is dense, of course, packed with the three HDMI digital A/V inputs of the well-dressed receiver and all the component, S-video, and digital-audio ports you could want…more