[The News Bot]

With Blu-ray sales starting to kick off now the HD disc format war is over, Onkyo is ready to pounce on the inevitable upsurge in interest in HD audio with a trio of impressively affordable new HD-capable home cinema receivers. These start at just £250 in the shape of the 7.1-channel...

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[Upholder]

Originally Posted by R Thomson

With Blu-ray sales starting to kick off now the HD disc format war is over, Onkyo is ready to pounce on the inevitable upsurge in interest in HD audio with a trio of impressively affordable new HD-capable home cinema receivers. These start at just £250 in the shape of the 7.1-channel...

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This is good news because it means hopefully there will be some 605's going for less than the "fixed" price...

[amardilo]

The TX-SR606 sounds like the system for me. Does anyone know if the HDMI input connections are HDMI pass-through (for audio)? I don't want pass-through as I want to use as few cables as possible so I would like the audio (such as Dobly True HD, DTS-HD and uncompressed) to be passed into and the reciever via the HDMI connection.

[NewMan]

The 606 will accept audio over HDMI and will decode the TrueHD and DTS-HD onboard...

[kingfats]

Originally Posted by amardilo

The TX-SR606 sounds like the system for me. Does anyone know if the HDMI input connections are HDMI pass-through (for audio)? I don't want pass-through as I want to use as few cables as possible so I would like the audio (such as Dobly True HD, DTS-HD and uncompressed) to be passed into and the reciever via the HDMI connection.

Hi amardilo.
Yes you can do that.
All the best.

[amardilo]

Thanks for the help. Better start saving up for the reviever