I’m trying to help my parents out with some home theater stuff for the house they’re building (just about finished). I’m trying to find an all-in-one receiver that will play Blu-Ray (or DVD, but preferably BD), as the built-in entertainment center area only has room for one more component (as the DirecTV DVR takes up one of the two). Now that’s not a big deal, as there are hundreds of those types of things out there, but I need one a bit more powerful and specialized: I need one that uses bare-wire speaker connectors (as he has in-wall speaker wire and I’m not using something with proprietary connectors like most of them have) and ideally has dual-zone support (as he has speaker wire running to the kitchen, deck, and bedroom as well).
Does such a beast exist? I have a thread open over on AVS Forum, but I figured I’d ask here if anybody knew of such a beast. Dual-zone support isn’t as crucial, but it sure would be nice.
Update: Made it more clear that I need one of those home-theater-in-a-box type of setups that will play the DVDs as well as power the speakers. Realized I wasn’t as clear as I could be with that. I basically need one box that will do it all. I have an Onkyo TXSR508 so I know all about multi-zone stand-alone receivers, just didn’t have a clue if a HTiB setup was capable of doing this.
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i just bought the denon avr-591, i think this what you need!
The Denon AVR-591 is just a straight receiver, isn’t it? Unless I’m missing something, it doesn’t have a built-in DVD player (which I guess wasn’t clear above — I’ll make it more clear).
I don’t think that something like that exist at all and you’ll have to buy a separate player for sure IMO.
Jake – your right, it is a straight receiver, I think The Vase is right – you’ll have to get 2 components (receiver & BD/DVD). I would suggest getting a BD/DVD that is connected…