Product Description Watch HD programming or listen to your favorite audio in multiple rooms with the STR-DA4400ES 7.1-channel A/V receiver. Equipped with the necessary connections for full home integration, you can start an HD movie in the living room and finish it in the bedroom; or listen to your favorite songs in up to three rooms from your iPod or Walkman player, PC, or XM and Sirius Satellite radio via the digital media port.
Customer Reviews:
Could be betterDecember 4, 2008 There is not another brand on the market that can do what this one can, but it still has a lot of limitations and notes on every page of the manual. The manuals are available on the Sony web page under support.
This can convert component/composite into 1080P HDMI, but it can't convert any HDMI video into component or composite. I was using Zone 2 component output for my old HDTV and HDMI for the new one. It worked okay for the satalite receiver, but I had to connent both HDMI and component video inputs to get it to work for both zones. Unfortunately, the Sony DB is a pain to switch between HDMI output and component and it can't do both at the same time. So it is a real pain that zone 2 only supports component output with the receiver and you have to connect all your components twice to really use both zones. Many you could live with only component inputs, but TrueHD and DTS Master Audio require HDMI input require HDMI inputs. If you want to utilize deep color and 1080P from the DB, you have to use an HDMI input too. It can't upscale to deep color, connecting the Wii with the component input looks great in 1080P though.
It is pretty awsome with allowing different video and audio sources being configured to work together. From the different options available (DB, DVD, CD,...) there are some limitiations of want video and audio sources can be configured, but I was able to do everything combination I needed.
I couldn't find anyway to tell if Deep Color was actually passing through the receiver other then watching the change in the picture. It says you have to use direct video for Deep Color, so some configuration can actually loose deep color from the signal. I also was not able to upscale 1080i to 1080P.
It supports two channel audio out the HDMI port but will not pass DD, DTS etc. If you turn this functin on though, you only get 2 channel audio from the receiver speakers too. So, you can't really use the TV speakers via the HDMI input, but you can connect separate analog audio cables to do it. You can use the preouts to connect the TV as center channel, but it you are spending this much you should really invest in a quality center channel speaker.
The mircophone supplied for automatic speaker calibration is not very good. It said my speakers were out of phase when they were not. The stereo microphone with the STR-DA5400ES worked much better.
Control for HDMI may not work if you have a cheap HDMI cable like I started with.
best 7.1 receiver I have ever ownedNovember 23, 2008 4 out of 4 found this review helpful
All I have to say is I owned a denon befor this and it is way better. It has 6 HDMI ports and I can view the Receiver interface from my tv in HD. not all receivers can do that at least not older ones the price is a little high but amazon and other online stores have it at a much lower price. Only down side is with my PS3 it only does LPCM and the reciver will not display the new formats name on the screen. Not the receivers fault if you want to display DD HD audio and DTS master audio on the screen you have to use a standalone BD Player but thats only if you really need to see the audio in bitstream. Not a big problem because LPCM is just the same. Maybe they will update the PS3 firmware so it can do HIGHDEF audio in bitstream.
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