We've just learned that Yamaha and XM Satellite Radio will bring to market the first XM-Ready home entertainment products available in early April.
Yamaha will manufacture four new receivers and several new home-theater-in-a-box (HTIB) systems with XM's Connect-and-Play technology designed to integrate XM into a broad range of home entertainment products.
Now all you need to do is simply plug in the XM Connect-and-Play home antenna into the XM-Ready Yamaha AV receiver and activate the service to be live. Nothing else is required, no accessories, no installation... nothing.
Yamaha's line of XM-Ready receivers include two 6.1 channel receivers, the RX-V457 (85W x 6) and RX-V557 (90W x 6), and two 7.1 channel receivers, the RX-V657 (95W x 7) and RX-V757 (100W x 7) pictured in this article.
The receivers come with all of the latest surround sound formats, with Yamaha's proprietary YPAO System featured on the RX-V657 and RX-V757, which automatically analyzes the acoustics of your room and adjusts the speaker parameters to provide the optimum sound at the listening position.
Yamaha will also release four XM-Ready receivers from their HTR-series with features similar to RX-V series. The HTR series will be available in April from $349.95 to $849.95. Yamaha will also introduce several XM-Ready HTIB solutions from its YHT line of products.
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