Well here it is - this is what you've all been waiting for!
We started receiving requests for this amp over 6 months ago, when news of its arrival first hit the USA Home Cinema forums. Immediately, everyone recognised the 605 as a real winner, because it was one of the very first amps to fully support the high speed, high bandwidth, DTSHD, Dolby Digital Plus and Deep Color formats that will be used by future HD sources, such as Blu Ray and HD DVD. If you want to know all the technical ins and outs, click here, or you can simply trust me when I tell you that this is one of the most significant products we've seen in a long time. To be able to accept 1.3 HDMI, have 2 HDMI in and 1 HDMI out, to be able to up-convert non-HDMI sources to HDMI and have excellent iPod connectivity for just £399. It's absolutely sensational! None of the other manufactures have anything that even gets close to matching the amazing 605, unless you spend double the money. If there was ever a time when the expression 'dream ticket' was appropriate...this is it!
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STOP PRESS! - Onkyo 605 wins 'Product of the Year' in the What Hi-Fi 2007/ 2008 awards as well as EISA Best Home Cinema Receiver !
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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™.
