Onkyoís Latest DVD Design Is A Six-Disc Changer DTS-Compatible Player

Onkyoís latest six-disc changer is the worldís first to reproduce DVDs as well as audio and video CDs. The DV-C600 utilizes Onkyoís unique, six-disc carousel-style layout to bring the enhanced capacity and convenience of six-disc storage and playback to home theatre systems for video programs as well as music. Just as important, alongside its unique conveniences and functions, the DV-C600 boasts the unexcelled video technology and image quality that have already earned Onkyoís single-disc DVD designs widespread international praise.Onkyo U.S.A. National Product Manager, Sergio Batista says, ""With the DV-C600 we offer our customers a combination of audio and video disc selection, extended-play convenience, and A/V performance that simply cannot be had from any other DVD player,"" Batista continues. ""This makes our newest changer the perfect multipurpose disc ëserverí for a serious, flexible A/V system in which a single changer must serve up top-performance video and audio programming.""The DV-C600 complements DVDís extraordinary digital video qualities with the companyís exclusive 5-Disc Exchange and Next Selection functions, each fully functional with any mix of DVD, CDs or Video CD discs. The first lets users remove and exchange any or all of five discs - CDs or DVDs - while a sixth disc continues to deliver A/V or audio playback uninterrupted, while the second permits fast and easy search and ""pre-cueing"" of a track or chapter from any disc, again while the sixth plays on. The DV-C600 also offers a wide array of multi-disc user features, including random-access program-play of chapters and/or tracks, random-play by disc or by track/chapter, and multi-mode repeatoptions. Last Memory play can automatically resume playback from the precise location left off, even after a power-down cycle - particularly useful with DVD movies. Thereës even a three-mode video ""zoom"" that can magnify a user-selected image area to any of three levels, for a super-close look. CD Repeat mode allows the user to play only the CDs loaded in the player while automatically skipping over any DVDs that may already be in the changer.Onkyo also equips its newest six-disc changer with the full complement of DVD transport options, including its significantly enhanced, seven-speed search system. This yields crisp, stable playback at speeds from 30 times to one-half normal play, forward or in reverse. The DV-C600 further incorporates all of DVDís standard disc-based modes, including multi-aspect-ratio imaging, multi-language audio, 32-language subtitling potential, and more.The DV-C600 offers an equally impressive and perhaps even more noteworthy list of technical features, engineered to ensure the maximum possible audio and video performance. Onkyoís dual-focus optical pickup is an unusually simple mechanical layout that delivers robust reliability and extended life, yet it reads CDs and DVDs with unusual accuracy and full DTS computability. Component video output from high-transfer, gold-plated jacks offers the best image quality with compatible video displays, and like the composite and S-video outputs also on board the DV-C600, is always active, making for convenient connection to multiple inputs, multiple screens, or even multiple rooms. Onkyoís 10-bit video DAC combines with ultra-high-speed 27 MHz resampling to quadruple the accuracy of conventional digital-video decoding solutions, yielding the sharpest, most artifact-free pictures possible in all playback modes. Onkyo also endows the DV-C600 with two selectable black-level modes, Standard and Enhanced (0 IRE), permitting optimum display accuracy with the widest possible range of CRT or projection systems.On the audio side the DV-C600 is highlighted by audiophile-grade circuit components and design, including fully 96 kHz/24- bit digital-to-analog conversion for compatibility with the newest generation of extended-definition software (without the down-sampling imposed by some ""compatible"" designs). As a fringe benefit, this sophisticated layoutís accuracy from conventional CDs is virtually error free. Thereís Onkyoís Direct Digital Path design that minimizes the digital audio signalís circuit path to protect signal integrity, and dual digital outputs (one optical, one coaxial) that provide the greatest possible flexibility with the available inputs of a home theatre systemís A/V receiver or preamp/processor.A simplified, high-resolution new on-screen display delivers intuitive, highly legible access to all of the DV-C600ís setup modes and operating features. Nevertheless, in addition to the supplied full-function remote control ONKYO includes front-panel keys that command all of the DV-C600ís primary functions for full convenience without the remote in hand. For its part, the remote handset features a highly ergonomic design with non-slip keys, controls grouped by function and differentiated by size, shape, and color. Like all Onkyo DVD designs, the DV-C600 is constructed on a vibration-resistant, steel-reinforced all-metal chassis with anti-resonant top and bottom panels. The striking front panel is meticulously machined from aluminum with an elegant black brushed-anodized finish.The DV-C600 is available now at the manufacturerís suggested retail price of $579.95.For more information, contact Sergio Batista at 201 825 7950.