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The 3900 is a little more powerful (140W/channel vs 105 for the 863). Personally, I like the 863 better. I put the 3900 in my family room and the 863 in the bedroom. Great price. HD Radio, Sirius, XM, ipod dock and all the acronyms.So, why would you pay more (for the 3900 for example). Great receiver.
Video is thru a Samsung 7 series 52" LCD TV.Great sound. It has outputs to a 5.1 speaker system in Zone 1 and a simple 2 speaker system in Zone 2 (in our bathroom so we can listen to the radio in the morning). The upscaling of DVDs is tremendous. It can turn a DVD into (almost) a Blu Ray. I bought this along with the Yamaha 3900. If you don't do HDMI, has tons of other inputs which can easily be seen on the pictures. It also has all the capabilities of more expensive receivers.
The 3900 is a network receiver, which the 863 is not. The 3900 has 4 HDMI inputs and 2 HDMI outputs (vs 3/1 for the 863). It has 3 HDMI inputs and 1 output. Just as some background, I have a Sony 550 Blu Ray and a Directv HD receiver hooked up to it. However, after buying both, I wish I had just bought 2 863s.
Easily does 2 zones. Can handle 2 subs. In fact for the cost of the 3900, I could have. Incredible value.
I have been using this receiver for the past three weeks, and although it takes some time to properly customise at the end I am very impress with the sound Quality and overall performance of this unit
This is my 3rd Yamaha receiver I like to up grade. This one has the hd radio and hdmi hook ups that my old one didn't. I do wish they would have impoved the remote control. I like my old one better with the lcd screen on it.
Got this receiver when I got the Panasonic Blu-ray player. Easy setup, many soundfields, a few changes from the RXV-659. I really wanted this unit for its analog video upconversion and ability to perform lossless PCM and the upgraded Dolby and DTS audio from Blu-rays.Only gripe: relatively expensive, although I got mine (new in box).from a clearance sale.I've always enjoyed listening to music on Yamaha receivers, and with this unit's ability to play my DVD-Audio discs, I am pretty pleased.
Prior Onkyo users will not like the rear hookups for anything other than HDMI. I went with Yamaha this time for it's price and loyal customers. I've been a long time Onkyo listener. They are split up by type of input unlike the Onkyo where you could define what input the different video modes used. Plus I heard the competing Onkyo unit had a video issue in 1080P. I am very pleased with the Yamaha, it delivers very clean sound, plenty of HDMI hook ups, and an easy to set up interface. This somewhat constrains you in hooking up VCR's, Wii's, Ipod (without the onkyo dock). Overall though this is a great unit and I recommend it to anyone.
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