Denon releases AVC-1610 receiver in Japan

by Steven Kim Apr 16th 2009 @ 10:18PM

Denon released the AVC-1610 receiver to its Japanese customers, and we can only assume it will make its way to other markets soon as the replacement for, of course, the AVR-1609 model. The specs we teased out of the machine translation look pretty good -- the same 75-Watt (130-Watt maximum into 6-Ohms) amplification as the outgoing model, but HDMI inputs have moved up a notch to three, Dolby TrueHD, DTS-HD MA and Dolby ProLogic IIz have been added to the surround audio processing support, and analog-to-HDMI video conversion is now onboard as well, which should help clean things up your cabling. Now if Denon would only add preamp outputs to this model, we'd be set. The AVC-1610 is set for mid-May availability in Japan at ¥55,000 ($550), which should give interested shoppers plenty of time to start planning whether to buy a new AVR-1610 or score a deal on last year's AVR-1609.

[Via AkihabaraNews]

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Tags: avc-1610, denon, dolby prologic iiz, DolbyPrologicIiz, japan, others, receiver, receivers

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JDUBB @ Apr 17th 2009 10:13AM

First of all the pricing on this one here in the US will be $379. Do you really expect to get pre-amp outputs on a receiver this inexpensive. It will be available here in the US in May. Also the model will be AVR-1910, not AVC-1910. There are also 5 other models along with 3 profile 2.0 blu-ray players being released in the next 2-3 months.

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JDUBB @ Apr 17th 2009 8:58AM

First off this will be $379 here in the US and available next month. You're not going to get pre-amp outputs on that inexpensive of a receiver. There will also be 5 more receivers and 3 profile 2.0 blu-ray players released between May and July.

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