Yamaha 5.1 Channel Home Theater In A Box System In Black

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  • Poor quality "connectors" (1)

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High Quality DVD Player and New Level Home Theater Receiver Offer Great Sound with All the Latest Features such as 1080p-Compatible HDMI, XM/SIRIUS Satellite Radio Ready, and iPod / Bluetooth Compatibility.

Bluetooth
The Bluetooth(R) logo indicates that the product is equipped to use the optional YBA-10 Bluetooth(R) Wireless Audio Receiver that lets you connect the dock to the receiver and supports A2DP audio streaming. With the optional YBA-10 Bluetooth dock, you can enjoy music wirelessly from Bluetooth enabled mobile phones, portable devices, or personal computes.


Made for iPod
Made for iPod indicates that the product is equipped to use the optional YDS-10 Universal Dock that lets you connect your iPod to this product. With the optional dock you can listen to your music and operate the iPod via the product’s remote control while at the same time recharging the battery on your iPod. Depending on your product’s specifications, some will allow you to use the On-Screen Display feature on your video monitor to navigate your music. Some products can even allow you to view your photos and movies from your iPod on your video monitor

  • YDS-10 Universal Dock works with: iPod nano, iPod mini and iPod (Click Wheel)

  • Newly released (2007-09) iPod classic, iPod nano and iPod touch are compatible for music content playback and control only.


Dolby Pro Logic II
Improved version of Dolby Pro-Logic for music and movies. With a more intelligent matrix decoder, it is suitable for both stereo and surround-encoded sources. It offers bass management as well as the option of incorporating width, dimension and panorama controls.

DTS Digital Surround
The basic DTS 5.1 channel sound format. Uses a higher data rate than Dolby Digital.

XM - XM Ready
A product with this feature indicates that the item is XM SATELLiTE RADiO (XM Ready), allowing you to hear over 150 digital channels of music, news, sports, talk and entertainment from America's number one Satellite Radio service. With the addition of the optional digital antenna XM Mini-Tuner Home Dock and the XM Mini-Tuner accessories sold separately, just subscribe to XM SATELLiTE RADiO and hear radio as it was meant to be!

XM HD Surround Sound
XM and Neural Audio Corporation announce XM HD Surround, which provides content with six discrete channels of digital full fidelity audio powered by Neural Audio technology. Marking the first time that a radio company has broadcast in 5.1 Surround Sound twenty-four hours a day. Beginning in April 2006, XM will broadcast the Fine Tuning(R) (XM Channel 76) and the classical pops music channel XM Pops (XM Channel 113) in XM HD Surround. XM will also broadcast a variety of special shows and live music performances at the XM studios in XM HD Surround.

Neural Surround
Neural Surround(TM), a proprietary audio format that embeds the rich envelopment and discrete image detail of surround sound and is 100 percent compatible with stereo content. Chosen by XM Satellite Radio as the format for their 24/7 XM HD Surround programming

Sirius-Ready
A Sirius-Ready audio system lets you access your favorite SIRIUS Satellite Radio entertainment, including 100% commercial-free music, plus sports, uncensored talk, comedy, exclusive entertainment, world-class news and more, directly through your audio system with the use of an optional SIRIUS ConnectT Home Tuner kit. This product has a simple connector that allows you to plug the SIRIUS ConnectT kit and use the controls of this system to access all the content you want. Subscription and SIRIUS ConnectT Home Tuner (SC-H1) are required and sold separately.

HDMI
High Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) is the first and only digital interface to combine uncompressed high-definition video, multi-channel audio and intelligent format and command data in a single digital interface. HDMI switching, providing the most advanced method of delivering high quality video signals to a home theater system to enable the reproduction of DVD and satellite TV sources with HD quality. HDMI can also send the digital audio signals from sources such as DVD Audio, CD, Dolby Digital and DTS to provide simple components connections.

6 Ch Ext Input
6 additional input jacks for discrete multi-channel input. Front (Left, Center, Right), Rear (Surround Left & Right) and Subwoofer

CINEMA DSP Digital
Conventional multichannel audio reproduction systems base their sound on Dolby Digital and DTS decoding, using matrix and steering technologies to create surround sound effects. Yamaha CINEMA DSP is much more advanced, actually creating richly realized independent sound fields that envelop you in an unmatched surround sound experience. With dialogue, music and effects from ideally located in these separate sound fields, you will hear sound with accurate placement, smooth movement, exceptional clarity and richness, and startlingly realistic presence. It will seem as if the walls of your room have disappeared and you are in the middle of your own immense theater! The decoding circuitry performs Dolby Pro Logic IIx, Dolby Digital, Dolby Digital EX, DTS Digital Surround, DTS-ES (DTS-ES Matrix 6.1 and DTS-ES Discrete 6.1), DTS Neo:6 and DTS 96/24 decoding with extreme accuracy, as well as all digital sound field processing.

SILENT CINEMA and Virtual CINEMA DSP
SILENT CINEMA makes it possible to hear large-scale surround sound through ordinary headphones! This is a variation of CINEMA DSP technology that Yamaha developed to let you listen in private to movies and other multi-channel sources for hours without listening fatigue. Virtual CINEMA DSP lets you enjoy the effects of CINEMA DSP surround sound without using surround speakers (handy for use in custom installations where some rooms don't have surround speakers). It can be used with the front / center / presence speakers or even with just the two front left and right speakers.

Compressed Music Enhancer
Yamaha employs sophisticated digital signal processing with exclusive algorithms to enable playback that improves the performance of compressed music formats, including MP3 and WMA. With the Compressed Music Enhancer, highs and especially lows are richer and smoother, bringing music back to life to be as close to the original as possible.

SCENE – A NEW LEVEL OF OPERATING EASE
Four SCENE buttons make operating the receiver easier than ever. They are initially set to default settings for DVD Viewing, Disc Listening, TV Viewing and Radio Listening. Pressing a SCENE button automatically launches a number of operations that initiate play of the source controlled by that button. Other SCENE settings are also available, such as iPod Listening, XM Listening, TV Sports Viewing and Action Game Playing. Browsing and selecting the settings is quickly accomplished by rotating the Input knob and watching the on-screen display. The settings can be selected for one-time use, or they can replace the original default settings. The SCENE names can be changed also.

YPAO Automatic System Calibration
Yamaha’s YPAO system uses a small microphone and sophisticated equalization to automatically set the best sound for any room, no matter where the speakers are. First it checks the speaker connections and phase of each speaker. Then it sends out tones which are captured by the microphone to analyze the room acoustics and sets a variety of parameters, such as the speaker size, the distance of the speakers and even the sound pressure level, etc. Until it achieves the best sound conditions for your room and you don't have to do anything!
RX-V2500 and newer models have an improved system that is faster (less than three minutes), also adjusts frequency response, and provides three programed EQ patterns, plus the ability to manually adjust parametric EQ settings. Six YPAO settings can be held in memory and recalled via two system memory buttons on the remote control.

DVD Video
DVD is essentially a large capacity optical video storage media that contains movies or other video content for home entertainment. DVD has become the standard for video publishing by most movie and video studios.

Video CD
DVD Players equipped with Video CD capabilities will be able to play video and sound media that has been compressed together using the MPEG 1 standard, and recorded onto a CD disc.

DivX
DivX is the video compression codec developed by DivX Networks and based on the MPEG-4 compression format. Its balance of high video quality and low bit rate has made it very popular and quickly established it as the best home video format thus far. The ability to play it on newer DVD models continues to add to its popularity as DivX Networks advances its support to many new household products. This compression technology has the potential for expanding the ways we view video media in much the way MP3 has given us many new ways to listen to music.

MP3
Short for MPEG-1 layer 3 audio, MP3 is a compression process used to shrink audio files by filtering out all noise that is not detectable to the human ear. MP3 is considered near CD-quality, but the file itself occupies approximately one tenth to one twelfth the space of the original CD format, making it the perfect medium for today’s smaller, memory based portable media players.

Specification Description
Model YHT-690BL
UPC 027108105277
Analog Audio (1) Front Input
Analog Audio (2) Rear Output
Analog Audio (7) Rear Input
Analog Audio / Video (1) Front Input
Analog Audio / Video (2) Rear Output
Analog Audio / Video (4) Rear Input
Antenna AM
Antenna FM
Antenna Rear Input
Built-in DVD Player Yes
Coaxial Rear Output
Color Black
Component Video Rear Input
Disc Player DVD Player - Single
HDMI (1) Rear Output
HDMI (2) Rear Input
Monitor Output Rear Output
MP3 or iPod Connectivity iPod Dock optional
Multi-Channel 5.1 Channel Input
Optical (2) Rear Input
Play Modes Surround (5.1 Channels)
Remote Control Included
Satellite Radio Sirius Satellite Radio Ready
Satellite Radio XM Radio Ready
Speaker Terminals 5-Way Binding Post
Speakers 5 Satellites + Subwoofer
Subwoofer Out Rear Output
Surround Modes DTS 96/24
Surround Modes DTS ES Discrete 6.1
Surround Modes DTS NEO:6
Surround Modes Dolby Digital
Surround Modes Dolby Digital EX
Surround Modes Dolby Pro Logic II
Surround Modes Dolby Pro Logic IIx
Surround Power Rating 105 Watts x 5
Tuner AM
Tuner FM
Tuner Sirius Satellite Radio Ready
Tuner XM Radio

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Yamaha 5.1 Channel Home Theater In A Box System In Black Review

Good Product!!

★★★★☆
4.0

    Pros

  • Great Sound
  • Powerful

    Cons

  • Hard to understand Manual
  • Poor Quality "Connectors"

    Best Uses

  • Basic Use
  • Smaller Rooms
 

"Brackets for 2 of the speakers were not included, could not find them to purchase so had to improvise. Needed several other HDMI cables. Would have been nice to have those included or noted as necessary when purchased with the option to include. The speaker wire, connectors etc that come with the …"  Read Full Review »

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Yamaha 5.1 Channel Home Theater In A Box System In Black Review

Sirius XM Included!

★★★★★
5.0

"Pros

Sirius XM Radio Built-In!!!



Cons

No Blue-Ray Player.



Review

Sirius XM Radio is wonderful. This is the future of digital radio and will hopefully be built into all upcoming receivers. The sound quality is awesome. This would be a nice receiver to have in a place of business where you need to h …"  Read Full Review »

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Yamaha 5.1 Channel Home Theater In A Box System In Black Review

best buy

★★★★☆
4.0

"Pros

easy to hook up and looks sleek with my black glass table



Cons

none



Additional Thoughts

i bought this to replace a Samsung I will never buy a theatre in box again after having every componet seperate now. the sound is so much different and when you hook the hdmi in you dont have have all t …"  Read Full Review »

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YHT-690BL Home Theatre

★★★★★
5.0

"Pros

Very easy setup and has great sound. I bought this home entertainment unit to use for a new big screen TV. I can honestly say it is easy to use and the sound is awesome, especially the bass "

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