Nice receiver but not perfect Good HDMI switching and video conversion make life so much easier! Nice sound quality plenty of power lots of configuration options. It's worked perfectly with my Tivo HD Xbox360 Wii PS3 and PC input.Bad Doesn't decode the latest HD formats DTS Master HD Dolby True HD. Not a huge deal but kind of unforgivable at this price. Only 3 HDMI inputs. Automatic speaker calibration made my system sound worse.Verdict Now that Onkyo has released their TXSR606 the DG910 is pretty much obsolete. More HDMI inputs HD format support and it's only a few bucks more. Sorry Sony. Game over.
Great Receiver for the Price I bought this receiver for my boyfriend as an anniversary present. He's a big a/v nerd and really wanted a better receiver for the new hdtv that he was getting. I looked around and really couldn't find anything better than this without being twice the price it has 3 hdmi I was pretty worried that it wouldn't be up to his standards but he was thrilled and said that it was easy to hook up and had all of the outputs/inputs that he needed. There haven't been any problems with it and we've had it for a while.
Exactly what I needed I needed an AV receiver that can switch all of my video sourcesTivo S3XBox 360 older component onlyPS3Wiiand that is not too deep <14 in so it can fit into my cabinet.This is exactly what I needed. It has just the right number of inputs. The analog > HDMI transcoding allowed me to put XBox 360 and Wii in from component inputs and run one HDMI cable to my TV which greatly simplified my universal remote macros.The receiver has worked flawlessly for > 2 months now driving a set of Polk Monitor front/center speakers Pioneer rear booshelf speakers and a Velodyne sub producing great sound. I also liked the autospeaker set up. I have a 5.1 setup and it detected my speakers just fine. When I swapped out my old satellite front/center speakers with the polk it correctly detected that the speakers are now Large instead of Small and adjusted accordingly.I don't mind Sony losing the Svideo inputs I haven't used those in ages and glad to save some cost and bulk off the receiver by not having them.I looked at comparable Onkyo 605 705 but they are just too big to fit or no/bad analogHDMI transcoding. I'm sure they are nice but this Sony is the perfect one for me.
How Do Normal People Set These Up? I am a former computer technician midsized business systems a person who can take his PC apart blindfolded and I do my own electrical work in my home plumbing carpentry etc. I understand mechanical and electrical things.It never ceases to amaze me how overly complicated consumer electronics can be. If I find these things so complicated how does some average person even begin to use them?In my case the auto speaker setup was an attraction. But it sets my rear surround speakers too high with too much bass. The grills literally vibrate off and the speakers rattle at times because the bass is too much. It make not be difficult to manually set these speakers up but I'm now on my third try to figure this out.I also am struggling with using digital optical with an HDMI cable. The system will autoselect the optical cable when I pull out the HDMI cable but it goes back to that cable when I plug it back in. Why would it not autoselect the digital signal always? I have reread this section of the manual until my head hurts. I follow the instructions which are not at all intuitive and get the same results.I go online and find multiple manuals which do I use?An amp with features that are too complicated to understand might as well not have them.I own more Sony products than I can list. But sometimes perhaps because they write a terrible manual I wish I owned something that was easier to comprehend.The Sony receiver we replaced with this one was so complicated a certain combination of remote signals created two overlapping problems that it took me and an engineer with a Doctorate and hour to figureout that we have put it down in the gym where the features will never be used.
Best receiver for PS3 I bought this receiver back in 2008 for the PS3 I had just bought since the PS3 did all the onboard decoding I did not have to worry about the receiver needing the latest DTS HD MA tracks and Dolby True HD because SOny had already confirmed they were going to do this with a firmware upgrade. I connected thru HDMI to the PS3 and a Motorola HD DVR from Comcast and that is all I needed. Still have an open HDMI that I have not needed. The PS3 is my CD player DVD player of course Bluray player Game Console and Media Streamer The last thing I was missing was to be able to play Netflix movies and now they have that taken care of with a disc that Netflix sends you. and the receiver just complements it perfectly. If you want something to go with the PS3 this is the receiver to get. If you can still get your hands on them..
iPod Disappointment I purchased this stereo to replace an old Denon receiver that had burnt out it's surround sound card. The numerous HDMI inputs seemed good since that looks like the way components are going in the near future.My disappointment is the inability of the stereo to use my iPod or iPhone as an input source. It will play but I have to turn the volume all the way to maximum in order to get legible sound. I am using both an iPod Dock with RCA cables out and have also tried using RCA cables connected to the headphone jack same result. I can use the RCA cable / headphone plug cable and connect my laptop to the stereo and get great results.
Sony STRDG910 I got the Sony STRDG910 because of its low price and number of features expecially the number of HDMI ports. The receiver works well but it is a pain to set up. Don't even bother trying without enabling the onscreendisplay OSD feature. When OSD is 'on' it does not show up as an overlay over the video source selected it takes over the screen with a low resolution menu display. There is not a lot of verbage to guide you through the set up so you will need to keep the manual handy during set up. The manual is not really clear either so as you are trying to get the thing set up properly the menu you are in usually times out and you have to reenter the menu. One thing that took me a while to figure out was that every source input can and must be set up separately. On a better note the calibration set up description in the manual claimed that the subwoofer level would not be set up automatically but it did and my 6.1 speaker system sounds great. Once properly setup the system works great. Over the past two years it has locked up twice probably due to the HDMI handshaking and I had to unplug it for a minute to correct the problem. One quirk of my setup and it may be common to all HDMI systems is that every time I powerup my LCD Samsung LNT5265F with the receiver playing the source sound it goes quiet for a second while it handshakes with the LCD. I also use it with a Playstation 3 PS3 and when powering up the entire chain the LCD screen flashes pink while all the handshaking is going on. Not a real problem but it does look a little hokey. I wish that the PS3 could be controlled by the STRDG910 since it can only be controlled by either a PS3 game controller a PS3 remote or a goofy addon box not a harmony remote but I digress. That is a problem with another Sony product the PS3.
Excellent Receiver Easy Setup I've had this for almost 2 years now and it works great. Hooked it up to a 5.1 Polk system 52 Panasonic Plasma Xbox 360 DVD/Bluray and controlling with a Harmony 880 all bought off of amazon. My only qualm came recently when I had the desire to add a wireless 7.1 headset to my system. Unfortunately the DG910 does not have any optical out options.
Piece of crap! I bought this item almost three years ago. It has steadily had one failure or another. SOund/Picture goes out periodically. I've owned all sony recievers throughout my life. I bought this 7.1 for the blue ray but it started to fail around 9 months old. If it wasn't for the Sony XBR TV and Sony Blue Ray I'd buy a Pioneer or Onkyo.
XM Connect and Play Ready Neural Surround.BRAVIA Theater Sync.110 Watts X 7 Amplifier Power Sony Corp. recommends model #SA-W3000, 200 Watt Subwoofer..Digital Media Port.Optimized for Blu-rayDisc and other HD Sources. Sony 7.
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