New Sony ES-Series 2400/3400/4400/5400/6400ES, new ES-BD-Player and SACD-Player too?

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http://www.marcush.de/2008/06/26/neu...-der-es-serie/

Translated with babelfish;

Although still no official press release was published of Sony, now already first details emerged to the coming Sony ES series in various international forums. Supported on preorders of some UK-dealers (e.g. Play.com), a list of the US-Sat-radio-service “Sirius” and a US dealer list, which permits views of the almost complete Sony program for 2008, this year appears beginning starting from June/July the following it devices, whereby to the 2400ES and 4400ES already by emerging the data of English-language manuals admits are:


* STR-DA2400ES
* STR-DA3400ES
* STR-DA4400ES
* STR-DA5400ES
* STR-DA6400ES

Features STR-DA2400ES

* HDMI 4x In / 1x Out
* Faroudja 1080p Upscaler
* 7x 110W
* HDMI 1.3, xvColour, DeepColor
* DD+/TrueHD/DTS-HD + MA
* DCAC (Sony´s Autokalibrierung)
* new GUI
* Bravia Link
* Sony Digital Media Port for USB/iPod/WiFi
* new design like the old QS-Series
* 430 x 157,5 x 388 mm (B/H/T), 12,5 Kg

Features STR-DA4400ES

* HDMI 6x In / 1x Out
* Faroudja 1080p Upscaler
* 7x 130W
* HDMI 1.3, xvColour, DeepColor
* DD+/TrueHD/DTS-HD + MA
* DCAC (Sony´s Autokalibrierung)
* new GUI like XMB of the PS3
* Bravia-Theatre-Link
* Sony Digital Media Port for USB/iPod/WiFi...
* proven it Design of the x200/x300ES-Serie
* 430 x 175 x 430 mm (B/H/T), 16Kg

Release:

* 2400ES June
* 3400ES August
* 4400ES July
* 5400ES August
* 6400ES September

To what extent these data are transferable to the European sales politics also, is not well-known yet. With the 4400ES speculates this, how it was with the predecessor 4300ES the case and it is also typical for different international sales politics of the large AV-enterprises, will create possibly not to Europe.
Over the prices can be so far also only speculated. The 2400ES is located at least in the booking in advance list of play.com for clear below to list price proven there Pound English of £500, which would correspond converted to approx. 630 EUR. With the 6400ES over a list price of 2000-2500 EUR one speculates.
Outgoing from this price structuring purely, Sony might place the STR-DA2400ES into direct competition to a Onkyo TX-SR606 or Yamaha RX663, while the new flagship STR-DA6400ES might lie on level of a Denon AVR-4308 or Onkyo TX-SR905.

Beside the new IES-AV-receivers Sony seems to plan a new SACD/CD player of name SCD-XA5400ES on the basis the US dealer list also for this year. Whether this also for Europe is valid is unknown.

In a European English-language forum also first strong speculation to an European introduction of a new ES-Blu-ray-player BDP-ES1 emerged. This is to round the Blu ray model range off upward to the S350 and S550 and appear in December. Data to the first European Union-Sony-ES-BD-player are so far not yet well-known. Profiles 1,1 as well as HDMI 1,3. and a typical high-quality it processing is considered probably than safe. Since the smaller models are able already with a Ethernet connection BD-Live, also this would not be wrong for the ES1. Possibly does Sony bring the first BD-player also off the PS3 with SACD?