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Ultimate AV Mag says:

Evolution is the continual process of change. For electronics manufacturers, evolution is often defined as updating equipment just enough from year to year to make consumers willing to upgrade to the latest and greatest. One could argue that until the advent of HDMI a couple years ago, the evolution of the AVR (Audio/Video Receiver) hadn’t featured a compelling reason to upgrade in a while.

Before HDMI, the AVR was mainly an “audio” device with the inclusion of video switching. Now the ” V for video” is taking a more prominent role in the evolution of the Audio/Video Receiver by adding advanced video processing into the equation. But this year’s evolutionary “hook” for the AVR is the ability to decode the hi-res audio codecs employed by HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc- Dolby Digital Plus and the two lossless audio coding schemes, Dolby TrueHD, and DTS-HD Master Audio. And HDMI is the only way to fly there.

All of the major manufacturers are updating their AVRs with internal decoding of the new advanced audio codecs. In the popular price range of $1,500-$2,000, there are a number of contenders, including the subject of this review, Yamaha’s $1,699 RX-V3800…more