Archive for AV Receiver Features
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XM-Ready
XM Radio ready receivers offer enhanced features over traditional radio receivers as their source is broadcast from a digital satellite. An optional plug and play XM antenna and service contract is required to active the XM Radio feature....
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WMA (Windows Media Audio)
WMA is an audio compression format developed with Microsoft technology. It claims to offer the highest quality sound available in the industry. Becoming a standard audio compression format, rivaling the popularity of MP3, WMA is used to compress a music CD on a computer with an equivalent qu...
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wifi
Wi-Fi Certification assures tested and proven interoperability by the Wi-Fi Alliance, a group certifying interoperability among wireless LAN devices. IEEE 802.11b is one wireless LAN standard and IEEE 802.11g is another wireless LAN standard set by the 802 working group that establishes LAN tech...
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Video Up-conversion
This feature allows a sensational surround three-dimensional sound field to be created using just one pair of speakers. Denon amplifiers with Virtual Surround mode provides a dramatic psychoacoustic surround sound effect, using two speakers with Dolby Digital 5.1 encoded sources. ...
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THX Ultra 2
THX Ultra2 Cinema Mode produces appropriate sound field effects when 5.1 channel movie sources (without Dolby EX or dts-ES encoded effects) are played in a 7.1 channel system. With the advent of very high speed digital processing, more sophisticated trimming is applied to accurately recreate a l...
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THX Ultra
THX Ultra certification is given to components that meet the THX performance standards for larger home theater environments (up to 3,000 cubic feet). Theoretically, if you have a home theater environment that is 2,000 cubic feet or less, THX Select receivers and loudspeakers should deliver appro...
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THX
THX is an independent company that promulgates a set of standards originally developed when the company was a division of Lucasfilm Ltd. These standards were established to ensure home theater systems reproduce movie soundtracks just as they were heard at the dubbing stage where the soundtracks ...
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S-Video
Short for Super-Video, S-Video is video signal format that transmits color (chrominance) and brightness (luminance) separately over two different conductors within one cable. It generally produces sharper images than composite video because televisions are designed to display separate Luminance ...
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Super Audio CD (SACD)
SACD is a next generation music format that provides more natural, ultra-high quality reproduction of both stereo and multi-channel music. SACD specifications allow a hybrid disc with high-density DSD information on one layer and CD-quality information on another layer, allowing you to play hybr...
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SRS TruSurround
SRS TruSurround processes any multi-channel audio source, as is usually found on DVDs, and transforms the material into virtual surround sound from just two speakers or headphones. ...
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Radio Data System (RDS)
RDS is a standard for sending small amounts of digital information using conventional FM radio broadcasts. Widely used in Europe, but less so in North America, the RDS system standardizes several types of information transmitted, including time and station identification. Radio Broadcast Dat...
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Progressive Scan
Progressive Scan technology represents a vast improvement over the interlaced scanning method used in TV broadcasts and other conventional applications. It can process approximately twice as much video data to produce a sharper, noise-free image with finer details. High-definition video imag...
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On Screen Display (OSD)
An on-screen display (OSD) is a control panel on a computer monitor or television screen that allows you to select viewing options and/or adjust components of the display, such as brightness, contrast and input and output settings. On a Plasma, LCD or even a Projector screen, it can usually be a...
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Noise Shaped Video (NSV)
The NSV precision video feature works in the digital domain to reduce noise in the video signal frequency band in order to enhance video signal linearity, provide the most accurate signal representation, and enhance the picture quality. Noise shaping techniques can be combined with dynamic eleme...
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Neural Surround
Neural Surround, a breakthrough in audio technology, brings the excitement of surround music to more of America's listening audience. It provides the rich envelopment and discrete image detail of surround sound in a format 100 % compatible with stereo. With superior spectral resolution and c...
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Multi-Room Entertainment System
Multi Source function lets you select different audio sources for listening in different locations (some models may have volume adjust only for zone 2). Different sources can thus be enjoyed in the main room (MAIN) and sub-room(s) ZONE 2, ZONE 3 or ZONE 4 simultaneously (number of zones is mod...