Yamaha DVD-S 657: DVD-Audio, SACD

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One more low-cost universal player. Yamaha has a new model, the Yamaha
DVD-S 657, with DVD-Audio and SACD compatibility (around 180 euros
online). The equivalent american model seems to not exist yet.

Compared with the Pioneer DV-575 it is slightly more expensive,
but it should be easier to unlock to play other regions DVDs
(assuming it works like the other Yamahas).

I have not yet found its manual, so I am not sure if it has
bass management, and distance compensation like the Pioneer.

It lacks DVI or HDMI output, unlike the Samsungs.

http://yamaha-hifi.de/products.php?lang=e&idprod=1225

BTW, there are also new AV receivers: RX-V357, RX-V457, RX-V557,
RX-V657, RX-V757. The differences compared with the older models
seem few.

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Steven Sullivan <ssully@panix.com> wrote:
> Rui Pedro Mendes Salgueiro <rps@koala.mat.uc.pt> wrote:
> > One more low-cost universal player. Yamaha has a new model, the Yamaha
> > DVD-S 657, with DVD-Audio and SACD compatibility (around 180 euros
> > online). The equivalent american model seems to not exist yet.

> I've read online in the [last few days that the] S2500 has become available
> in Europe --- not sure if you're talking about the same model.

No. The 2500 costs 700 euros (at www.technikdirekt.de), so it is not in
the same range as the DVD-S 657.

http://www.yamaha-online.de/produc [...] dprod=1181

http://www.hifi-edition.de/de/pro.php?id=2388

> > It lacks DVI or HDMI output, unlike the Samsungs.

> THe S2500 supposedly features ilink, though. At US $700 (the original
> announced MSRP, though apparentlyu the European version comes it at more
> like $800) that would make it the least expensive ilink-compatible
> universal player out there.

I think a Pioneer DV-757 Ai is cheaper. I found it online for 479 euros,
although I don't know the retailer:

http://www.mistergooddeal.com/v2/V [...] ouslesprix

BTW, the only Yamaha receiver with ilink is the very expensive
DSP-Z9 or RX-Z9.

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Steven Sullivan <ssully@panix.com> wrote:
> Rui Pedro Mendes Salgueiro <rps@koala.mat.uc.pt> wrote:
> > Steven Sullivan <ssully@panix.com> wrote:
> > > Rui Pedro Mendes Salgueiro <rps@koala.mat.uc.pt> wrote:

> > > THe S2500 supposedly features ilink, though. At US $700 (the original
> > > announced MSRP, though apparentlyu the European version comes it at more
> > > like $800) that would make it the least expensive ilink-compatible
> > > universal player out there.

> > BTW, the only Yamaha receiver with ilink is the very expensive
> > DSP-Z9 or RX-Z9.

This has changed. There is now (since April, in fact) a Yamaha RX-V4600
with both ilink and HDMI. At $1900 (online) it is still much more
expensive than the cheaper Pioneers. Maybe the RX-V2600 and RX-V1600
will also have ilink and HDMI but those models are still months away
(Christmas 2005 or later).

http://www.yamaha.ca/av/Receivers/RXV4600B.jsp
http://www.yamaha.ca/av/Images/rec [...] 0/rear.jpg

> True, but so far reports of ilink interoperability between brands have
> been encouraging. I expect the Yamaha would work perfectly well with
> a Pioneer ilink AVR.

I think I have read somewhere that such a connection (Pioneer-Yamaha)
worked without problems.

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