Onkyo TX-SR875S 7.1 Channel Home Theater Receiver Review

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(More customer reviews)I have nothing but good things to say about this unit. I do have a few neutral comments which will follow the positive notes. I am not a very verbose person so please allow me to enumerate the highlights.
1) 4 HDMI inputs. Cable Box, Blu-Ray, Old DVD (more on this later) and one for expansion.
2) Easy to configure. I didn't even need to look at the manual to figure out how to select digital audio and digital video inputs to the various source components.
3) ONE SINGLE CABLE TO THE TV!!!! Only a single HDMI cable was needed to connect the TV to the Onkyo. No component, S-Video or composite. This baby upsamples and digitizes any and all video inputs to HDMI. I used to have to switch my input source on both my Denon AVR and my TV every time I wanted to go from watching a disc to watching cable to watching a VCR movie.
4) PRICE! This AVR is less expensive than the competing products from Denon and Yamaha and has MORE features.
5) Quality. This is every bit as well made as the Denon unit it replaced. In some ways better.
6) Remote control. Easy to program. I succesfully replaced all my remotes except my Sony Blu-Ray player.
7) Audio formats. I am not an expert here, but this thing seems to decode any and every audio source data from my Blu-Ray collection (I have about 20) without any problem.
8) Upsampling. If you feed it 480I or any other non-1080P source data in analog or digital format it seems to be able to upconvert it to 1080P. I have not exhaustively tested every combination (I have heard de-interlacing 1080I can be hard) but what I have tried works well.
Summary: If you want an HDMI-friendly receiver, THIS is the unit for you.
Notes:
a) I still keep an upsampling DVD player Marantz DV 6001 around because although the Blu-Ray player can play DVD's it is darn slow about it.
b) This unit is slightly larger than my old Denon 4800, so it just barely fit in my enclosure.
c) It runs a little warm, so dont stack anything on top of it if you can avoid it.

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