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Pioneer’s flagship VSX-59TXi is the world’s first A/V Receiver to offer playback capability of Windows Media Audio 9- Professional encoded media making multi-channel streaming.

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Pioneer’s flagship VSX-59TXi is the world’s first A/V Receiver to offer playback capability of Windows Media Audio 9- Professional encoded media making multi-channel streaming, recorded, and even packaged PC audio in the living room, on the “big system”, a reality today! Dual i.LINK digital interfaces provide easy “FireWire” connectivity of multi-channel DVD-A, SACD, as well as other multi-channel digital audio signal transmissions between a DVD player and the receiver. The benefit: unmatched multi-channel audio processing, using ONE wire. The VSX-59TXi meets LucasFilm’s THX -Ultra2 requirements for audio playback of all multi-channel movie and music formats including DVD-Audio and SACD; as well as processing of all wide-bandwidth video signals…more