Onkyo’s New TX-NR905 is a High-Definition Powerhouse
Onkyo unveiled a new home theatre centerpiece unit today during a press event in Jersey, and it looks to be one hell of a receiver. As far as HD receivers go, this one has it all like, ethernet for streaming audio from your LAN, and a USB port that will read MP3s off an external hard drive. This THX-certified 7.1 channel powerhouse is most notable, however, for it Reon-HQV video processor. This is the same chip currently being used by Samsung and Toshiba in their best-of-the-bunch HD DVD and Blu-Ray players, and is widely regarded as one of the best upconverters on the market today. Any and all video that passes through the TX-NR905 will receive the Reon treatment, which outputs the upscaled 1080p video through a standard HDM port. Expect a retail release sometime in May for $2099. I have a good friend who must be jumping up and down right now at the site of this. If only he had a blog I’d link to him.
[Via Gizmodo]
Jonathan S. Geller
Jonathan Geller is the founder of Boy Genius Report, now known as BGR. What began as a column on popular gadget blog Engadget quickly grew into one of the site’s biggest draws, and Jonathan soon detached the wildly popular column to create what has since become the biggest mobile news destination in the world.
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