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Denon firmware upgrades now available for select receivers

Here's a news flash for many Denon home theater receiver owners. Denon has just announced a significant firmware upgrade package for their AVR-3808CI and AVR-4308CI receivers. This special upgrade adds some new performance-enhancing features and entertainment options. If you purchased your Denon receiver after September 1, 2008, you're eligible to receive these upgrades absolutely free through December 31. For those who who bought their receiver before September 1, the package is available from Denon for $100.

Here's what you get:

  1. Audyssey Dynamic Volume™: Tired of reaching for the remote to control those big peaks and dips in volume while watching TV? Audyssey Dynamic Volume keeps your sound smooth and steady, automatically eliminating annoying spikes in volume that accompany TV commercials. It also works great for movies and late-night listening.
  2. Audyssey Dynamic EQ™: When you play your receiver at lower volume levels, dialogue becomes harder to hear, bass disappears, and the surround soundstage loses its impact. Audyssey Dynamic EQ solves the problem by monitoring room acoustics and program characteristics in real time. You'll enjoy superior sound that stays rich, full, and dynamic at any volume.
  3. Rhapsody®: With the Denon upgrade package, your receiver will be able to stream this online subscription music service directly via Ethernet or Wi-Fi® using your broadband Internet connection. The package also includes a one-month free trial of Rhapsody.
  4. SIRIUS Satellite Radio™ Ready: Tune in 96 commercial-free music channels, plus sports, news, talk, comedy, and more when you upgrade your receiver and add an optional SIRIUS Home Connect Tuner pro kit . (Subscription required.)
  5. HDMI Consumer Electronics Control (CEC): HDMI-CEC is a two-way communication system that allows multiple HDMI-connected components to be operated from a single remote control without any special setup or programming.

You can download this package directly at home using your PC and your Internet connection. Simply go to Denon's website at www.usa.denon.com and click on the firmware upgrade link for your receiver. The website will then guide you through the required steps, and provide all the instructions you need to receive your upgrades.

Posted Wed, Oct 1 2008 3:18 PM by DaveB
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Comments

JerSully wrote re: Denon firmware upgrades now available for select receivers
on Thu, Oct 2 2008 12:36 PM

I'm glad to see HDMI-CED getting a little more attention!

DaveB wrote re: Denon firmware upgrades now available for select receivers
on Thu, Oct 2 2008 12:54 PM

Right you are, JerSully. This cool feature has some real potential to simplify what can otherwise sometimes be a fiendishly complex maze of system connections and remotes. Now if we could just get all of the manufacturers on board...

Thanks for your comment,

Dave

m krosse wrote re: Denon firmware upgrades now available for select receivers
on Sat, Jan 24 2009 4:39 PM

DOH!  Denon should shoot their design engineers for design stupidity!!!!   Sirius ..... are they serious?  the denon has ethernet/internet connectivity;  why didn't Denon simply connect to sirius.com for the sirius signal over the fracking internet?????? (see slimserver & other internet based Sirius devices) .....  just like they did with rhapsody!!!!  otherwise they force Denon customers to buy a totally redundant hardware gizmo and install wires, outside antenna, rs232 cable .... blah blah blah.  

DaveB wrote re: Denon firmware upgrades now available for select receivers
on Thu, Jan 29 2009 1:09 PM

I contacted Denon to see if they had a response to the comment above. Here is their response, reprinted with their permission.

"Simply put, we already had the feature of XM Ready in our product, so we felt it best to add Sirius Readiness for those customers who prefer Sirius – and the fact that Sirius had just started to offer Radio Ready products like XM.  As far as using Sirius.com, most likely it was technically not an option at this time.  Rhapsody upgrading was in the plan since the products introduction, while XM.com or Sirius.com was not.  We are continually investigating other media options for our AVRs, stay tuned..."

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