Sony STR-DH500, Good value, but be..
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Good value, but be forewarned
Overall, this receiver is a good value for the money, but don’t assume anything. Many of the features you’d expect from an A/V receiver are cobbled together in this unit. For example - the HDMI inputs only support pass-through, meaning that they’ll pass the signal on to your TV or projector, but if you want audio through your 5.1 speakers, you’ll have to connect the audio to the receiver separately. The receiver WILL NOT pull the audio signal from the HDMI feed, even though the cable carries it. Similarly, if you connect analog sources (component or RCA) to the receiver, the receiver WILL NOT output them through the HDMI out. You’ll have to run an analog output from your receiver to your TV or projector to carry signal from those sources. I’m still happy with this unit; it’s just not as seamless a solution as I expect from a home theater receiver, and many of the features I took for granted when I looked at all the inputs turned out to be false assumptions.
Update (2/4/2012): I also found some auctions for this item here.
The featured review for this product, Sony STR-DH500 5.1-Channel A/V Receiver Black Electronics, was written by C. Wilcomb.
The average rating for this item is out of 5 stars, according to 3 reviews.
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Posted on: August 31, 2010
Filed under: Reviews
Reviews (3)
C. Wilcomb
July 23rd, 2010 at 7:46 pm
Good value, but be forewarned
Rated 4 stars.
Larry Xie, CA USA
August 13th, 2010 at 11:04 am
This Sony Receiver is good value!
I am reasonably happy with this receiver. But I do have a few minor complaints. It was not clear to me (not specifically mentioned in the menu) that one cannot use the Video “out” to drive the TV Video input and I found that I have to use the Video Monitor out to connect to my LCD TV. So, it cost me some time to play with it. It is unfortunate that my DVD happens to only have a optical digital audio out while the digital audio in for the DVD in this Sony unit can only accept standard RCA jack type digital inputs. Otherwise, it works pretty well overall.
Jacob A. Mcfarland
August 13th, 2010 at 8:07 pm
Not everything works
I bought this and received very quickly from Amazon. First time I hooked, I discovered that it would not pass through the HDMI input of my Phillips DVD player or video through the CAR. I talked to customer support from Sony for two hours and they said it was defective. Thus, Amazon sent me another which arrived quickly. It will spend the RCA video, but also through not pass through HDMI for my DVD player. I am sure that Sony is trying to do, you need to buy a Sony DVD player. Good Stuff - cheap - Everything works fine though Bad Stuff - HDMI does not work - the sound quality is not as good - Connections in back are not well organized
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