All the latest Onkyo Home Cinema amps are superb, but audio critics around the world have singled out the TX-SR875 for particular praise. The main reason for this is Onkyo's decision to give the 875 what is arguably the best upscaling chip known to man - the awesome HQV Reon. We've seen what this chip can do in Denon's flagship DVD player (£2700) and Yamaha's flagship projector (£8000), but we've never seen it in an amp before and we've never seen it in anything at this price. What this means is that the 875 can accept virtually any visual signal and upscale it into 1080p of the very highest quality.
Many would say that this alone makes the Onkyo worth the money, but on top of that you get full HDMI 1.3 spec, 4 HDMI inputs, excellent iPod connectivity, THX Ultra 2 and fabulous performance (including music!). In fact, the 875 is so strong that it virtually has the whole market place to itself. The only viable alternative is Denon's excellent AVR-3808, but the 875 still outsells the Denon by ten to one!
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All our TX-SR875s come with a 3 year guarantee and are loaded with the latest firmware!
Higher speed: Although all previous versions of HDMI have had more than enough bandwidth to support all current HDTV formats, HDMI 1.3 increases its single-link bandwidth to 340 MHz (10.2 Gbps) to support the demands of future HD display devices, such as higher resolutions, Deep Color and high frame rates. In addition, built into the HDMI 1.3 specification is the technical foundation that will let future versions of HDMI reach significantly higher speeds.
Deep Color: HDMI 1.3 supports 10-bit, 12-bit and 16-bit (RGB or YCbCr) color depths, up from the 8-bit depths in previous versions of the HDMI specification, for stunning rendering of over one billion colors in unprecedented detail.
Broader color space: HDMI 1.3 adds support for “x.v.Color™” (which is the consumer name describing the IEC 61966-2-4 xvYCC color standard), which removes current color space limitations and enables the display of any color viewable by the human eye.
New mini connector: With small portable devices such as HD camcorders and still cameras demanding seamless connectivity to HDTVs, HDMI 1.3 offers a new, smaller form factor connector option.
Lip Sync: Because consumer electronics devices are using increasingly complex digital signal processing to enhance the clarity and detail of the content, synchronization of video and audio in user devices has become a greater challenge and could potentially require complex end-user adjustments. HDMI 1.3 incorporates automatic audio synching capabilities that allows devices to perform this synchronization automatically with total accuracy.
New HD lossless audio formats: In addition to HDMI’s current ability to support high-bandwidth uncompressed digital audio and all currently-available compressed formats (such as Dolby® Digital and DTS®), HDMI 1.3 adds additional support for new lossless compressed digital audio formats Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio™.
