hodg100
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Any news on when the RX-A series are expected to be announced?
Keen to see what the RX-A3070 (if it is indeed named that) has to offer as I need to upgrade within the next 6 months.
I assume these won't be HDMI2.1 at launch?
I'm probably more interested in the Adventage range, but i wouldn't want to drop too much on an AV receiver this year, for it to be considerably out of date a year laterI'd not expect any version of HDMI more than 2.0b before next year from any of the manufacturers. You'd probably not need or benefit from HDMI version 2.1 for at least another 12 months and probably several years in relation to some of its abilities. Dynamic HDR10 will probably be the feature most will initially want it for.
Shame none have a full set of pre-outs this year.
I have to admit that I assumed there wouldn't be a RXV783, because the rest of the RXV range was announced. It may well now be a feature reserved for the Adventage model to help differentiate them further.It is something you only get with the higher tier receivers these days. You'll more than likely get pre outs with the RXV783 and the higher tier Adventage models from the RXA870 and above?
Surely any receiver with HDMI2.0a/b will support HDR10, HLG and Dolby Vision passthru? I'm thinking Yamaha are trying to bamboozle the uninformed. Of course if the receiver has media player built in and can play Dolby Vision encoded video files then that would be a different matter and would require that the device has DV support.
No, there's no requirement for any device to support Dolby Vision or HLG and only certain chipsets can be updated to facilitate passing through of either DV or HLG. Also note that the information that Dolby were propagating that any HDMI version from version 1.4 onward would passthrough Dolby Vision simply turned out to be untrue. Even the most current receivers will need an firmware update in order to make them compliant.
I don't see how that makes sense. If a receiver is operating in passthru mode then it should be behaving like an HDMI cable. There should be no processing of the HDMI signal as such. I will be getting straight on to my receiver manufacturer support for clarification on this.
Very interesting. I was under the mistaken impression that HDR metadata packaging was effectively invisible to the transport providing the bandwidth was there and the necessary processing was at either end of the chain. This looks like yet another unwelcome technical ball drop for home cinema HDR.
Very interesting. I was under the mistaken impression that HDR metadata packaging was effectively invisible to the transport providing the bandwidth was there and the necessary processing was at either end of the chain. This looks like yet another unwelcome technical ball drop for home cinema HDR.
I'm probably more interested in the Adventage range, but i wouldn't want to drop too much on an AV receiver this year, for it to be considerably out of date a year later
It was interesting to hear on the podcast about the music cast dongle. I have always been happy with Yamaha from a support perspective, my old 2067 was still getting firmware updates up until last year. It's maybe too soon but I hope the Avantage range has hdmi2.1 or at least headroom for a firmware upgrade as I'm hoping to upgrade this year having held off on my atmos addition, potential uhd tv has blown my budget.
Nothing big for 2017 models. Yamaha product line up 2017/2018