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- Pioneer 3D Ready Elite A/V Receiver
Product Description
The ''Made for iPhone®'' certified VSX-31 effortlessly incorporates your Apple® products into your home theater. And with Pioneer's exclusive iControlAV app (downloaded separately via the Apple App Store) your iPhone or iPod touch® is transformed into a full-function remote control. The VSX-31 offers connectivity options for all your latest high-definition home theater components, plus support for two zones. RS-232 support means compatibility with the latest professional home automation systems from control leaders like Crestron and Control4. And the VSX-31 brings extensive connectivity for your digital media via Ethernet and a front HDMI® input, and compatibility with Bluetooth sources (using the optional AS-BT100 adapter, sold separately). General Information: Manufacturer: Pioneer Corporation. General Information: Manufacturer Part Number: VSX-31. General Information: Brand Name: Elite. General Information: Product Model: VSX-31. General Information: Product Name: VSX-31 A/V Receiver. General Information: Product Type: A/V Receiver. Miscellaneous: Package Contents: VSX-31 A/V Receiver Remote Control Composite Cable. Miscellaneous: Additional Information: Ethernet Input for Access to Thousands of Internet Radio Stations iControlAV App for iPhone / iPod Touch free on the App Store Freescale Digital Core Engine Anchor Bay Video Scaler WMA9 Pro Decoder. Miscellaneous: Certifications & Standards: UL FCC. . Technical Information: Signal to Noise Ratio (SNR): 106 dB. Technical Information: Total Harmonic Distortion (THD): 0.1%. Audio: Channels: 7.1. Audio: Digital to Analog Audio Converter: 192 kHz - 3 Byte. Audio: RMS Output Power: 80 W. Audio: Sound System: Dolby TrueHD, DTS HD, Dolby Digital Plus, Dolby Pro Logic IIz, Neural Surround, THX. Tuner: Frequency Band: AM, FM. Network & Communication: Ethernet: Yes. Interfaces/Ports: Component Video: Yes. Interfaces/Ports: Composite Video: Yes. Interfaces/Ports: HDMI: Yes. Interfaces/Ports: Number of HDMI...
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18 of 19 people found the following review helpful.
Almost!
By goodmaj
Incredibly highly functional receiver for a great price. I originally was looking at the VSX-30 but then after I learned you can play iPod to Zone 2 I went with this one. A couple of words of caution, which is why this receiver gets four instead of five stars:- I upgraded my existing receiver because I needed more HDMI inputs and wanted to have a second zone, i.e., I wanted to install patio speakers. I also bought Apple TV and really wanted to stream via Apple TV to my patio speakers. The manual says the VSX-31 allows for iPod output to Zone 2 and so I incorrectly thought this meant I could take a digital source, i.e., an HDMI input, to Zone 2. Wrong. This receiver does not output digital signals (except for iPod and Internet Radio) to Zone 2. The manual isn't quite clear on this. In the receiver's defense, using the supplied cable for the iPod/iPhone works fine and is an upgrade over the VSX-30. I have not tried Pandora thru my iPhone yet.- Activating the receiver for Zone 2 is not nearly as intuitive as it should be. The manual is not clear whatsoever, only through trial/error did I get it to work. Basically, the manual tells you to select Zone 2 in the speaker setup menu of which there are five options for speaker setup (Zone 2 is one of the options). What it DOESN'T tell you is select Zone 2 AND THEN EXIT THE SPEAKER SETUP. There isn't anything that shows you a summary of the speakers you selected so there's no way to check it.- The receiver is definitely more deep than advertised. My cabinet has a total depth of around 15.5-16". After you connect all the HDMI cables and the power cord you quickly learn that you need a little more. Make sure the depth of your cabinet is at least 17", preferably 18". We had to cut a hole in the back of ours to make it fit and be able to close the door.- I use a Harmony One Remote. When I set up the VSX-31, I plugged my Directv HDMI cable into HDMI 1. I then set my remote such that when I hit Watch TV it set the receiver to HDMI 1. However, what I kept finding was everything worked fine very briefly and then the receiver for some unknown reason would automatically switch to TV/SAT (instead of staying on HDMI 1). Hitting Help on the remote fixed that but I didn't want to hit Help every time I turned on the TV, so I assigned TV/SAT to HDMI 1.Nitpicks, perhaps. There's many, many good features of this receiver and the price ($400) was right. I wish it would have been more clear on true Zone 2 capabilities and setup.
12 of 12 people found the following review helpful.
Good for simple things, troublesome otherwise
By Aleksandar Milivojevic
In short, works great if all you need is to hook up few A/V devices via HDMI.However, I hit limitations very fast. Two things that I simply can't get to work:1) If TV is off when receiver is turned on, there is no sound output to speakers. Why would somebody have TV off? For example, if you want to listen radio (via built-in tuner), or if you have some audio-only device connected to it (say, CD-player). Why TV must be turned on to have sound from audio-only sources output to speakers is a mystery. Once you turn on receiver, TV can be turned off, and audio will still be output to the speakers. But turning this unit on first, then TV, results in no sound. It's annoying...2) Connecting PC via DVI-HDMI cable. With this cable, there is no sound via HDMI, you need to use separate audio cable. No problems, one would think, and be wrong. You can't configure unit to use separate audio connection for something connected to HDMI port, except for HDMI-1 and then only digital audio inputs are selectable (either optical or coaxial). Fine, my sound card happens to have optical output, bought toslink cable, and connected my sound card to optical input. But it didn't really work. It works while one is in receivers GUI. But as soon as I exit the receiver's GUI, the sound is gone and receiver attempts to use HDMI port for both video and audio. Even my ancient Samsung TV allows for using HDMI for video only, and using separate input for audio.This could have been great unit. But this little things, which I hit on day one of owning this unit, are getting me very worried. To the point of thinking about returning the unit back to store and getting something else. I'll try with customer support first, though I'm rather skeptical.---- Update 2008-08-12:Called customer support line, and was impressed. This was the first time in many years that I talked to customer service rep who was comptent and jump right into solving the problems at hand. No wasting time on "nice talk", or "try powering on/off, re-connecting cables, etc".We resolved the problem with sound from PC quickly. Assigning audio port to video ports is done the other way from what I did. One needs to select audio port, and then assign HDMI port to it. Once this is done under input settings, simply exit settings, select audio input on the unit, and press audio input selection button (4 on remote) few times till it selects correct audio source (unit prefers HDMI over optical for audio). Unit will remember this selection.The second problem (no sound if TV is off when receiver is turned on), we were unable to resolve. It seems this problem may occur if HDMI control feature is enabled on the receiver. However disabling HDMI control feature (on either only receiver, or on both receiver and TV) didn't resolve the problem . Customer service rep checked with me few other settings, and suggested the unit itself may be defective :-(All in all, I give 5 stars to Pioneer's customer support. Very impressed.
11 of 15 people found the following review helpful.
Pioneer Ellite VSX-31
By Andrew y
Amazing!!!!!!!!! I had a very high end Yamaha receiver that was about six years old that I was replacing. I had paid over $1,500.00 for the Yamaha. I was reluctant to purchase the VSX-31 as I only paid about $450.00 on it on sale. I worried how it would stack up to the much more costly but older Yamaha. I was blown away the sound! The sound was cleaner and more powerful. The directions were fantastic! I got the receiver hooked up easily. The 3-D pass through works well. The internet radio feature is awesome. Its THX certified. Great receiver for the price point! I haven't hooked up my I Pad and Control 4 system up to it yet so I can't speak how well that works. In my opinion It is much more attractive than most other receivers. You won't be sorry about this purchase.
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