Yamaha is set to roll out a new range of home entertainment gear with a greater emphasis on convenience, connectivity and HD video. Several new features are found in the 2007 line-up of home-theatre-in-a-box (HTiB) systems.
What is not known is which models will be launched in Australia or when. The six 5.1-channel receiver-based systems include the company's first three systems to control an iPod docked in an optional docking station.
The three iPod-docking models which are priced at around $1100 are also the company's first HTiBs with automatic room-acoustics correction, delivering seven bands of parametric equalization independently to each audio channel, said a Yamaha executive. All six models are also Yamaha's first with music enhancer technology, which improves the quality of compressed music produced by MP3 players connected via front-panel mini jack input or by iPods docked with the iPod-controlling systems.
