Items tagged with denon

by Ray Willington - Thu, Dec 30, 2010

DivX Support Makes Its Way Onto Denon Players

DivX is a real feel-good story. Years back, we remember having to search high and low for video players that would recognize and work with DivX files. These days, it's a powerful format that has gained the respect of even major market players. Today, even Denon is coming around. The company has just revealed a new partnership with Sonic Solutions (who owns DivX) that will make Denon's players compatible with DivX Plus. DivX Plus HD video uses the MKV container, and throughout North America, Denon's lineup will be supporting it. Key advanced DivX Plus HD features on the Denon player include support for as many as eight subtitle and audio tracks in a single movie file, smooth fast forward and rewind... Read more...

by Ray Willington - Wed, Nov 17, 2010

Denon Introduces A100 Limited A/V Line To Celebrate 100 Years

Denon has pretty high standards, and the products from the company are typically very high end, very expensive and very good. Very, very good. But even a company like Denon can take the time to make things better, and they can even take the time to celebrate when the occasion arrives. After 100 years of staying in business, we'd say there's plenty of reason to party down. After staying afloat in the competitive A/V market for a full century, Denon is celebrating the occasion by announcing a special-edition Anniversary Product Collection (A100) of seven new home entertainment components. The limited special-edition Denon Anniversary Product Collection includes the PMA-A100 Integrated Amplifier... Read more...

by Ray Willington - Sun, Oct 10, 2010

Denon And Marantz A/V Receivers To Get AirPlay Support For A Fee

Have you heard of AirPlay? Chances are you have, but not much about it. Apple recently talked about the new technology when talking about the forthcoming iOS 4.x update for the iPad. Basically, AirPlay is an Apple-branded wireless streaming service that will allow users to stream their iTunes music remotely from their PCs and Macs across their home networks without any extra setup. If you buy an AirPlay-certified device, you'll be able to stream iTunes music directly to it without buying any extra hardware so long as you already have a Wi-Fi network setup. Denon and Marantz are two high-end names in the home entertainment business, and Apple announced that both of these guys were partners from... Read more...