iLink for the rest of us...when?

[gene]

Mitch;


I think it will work with 3910. Last time I checked, Denon got provisioning from Sony to do this. Its a rough time right now to get ahold of the right people at Denon with all the prepping for Cedia, but rest assured all of this will be covered by us in detail with our Cedia coverage coming soon.

 

[Rip Van Woofer]

The things a fella can learn here with a little question!

Looking forward to the CEDIA coverage.

 

[mitch57]

Thanks for the quick response. Here's another question. My current DVD player (actually it's a 7 Disk changer) plays DVD Audio's but not SACDs. I really like being able to load it with music CDs, DVD audios, and DVD Movies. Both Onkyo and Denon make a 6 Disk DVD changer but without the quality DACs and no Denon Link.

What's a guy to do? Sit tight and wait? I do want the supperior quality of the higher end DVD players but also want the convenience of being able to load multiple DVDs/CDs/SACDs/DVD Audios.

If I do "add" the denon 3910 to my system how will I deal with the 6 analog connections? You might say there's no need for the analog connections on the 3910 if I'm using Denon Link. But I have read somewhere that some SACDs or maybe it was DVD audios wouldn't play on the Denon 5900 when connected through the Denon Link connection. I also remember them saying that it would play correctly through the analog connections.

I think it had something to do with which recording company recorded the album. Either way, it appears that in this situation I would be forced to:

1. Play the album in my current JVC DVD player if it didn't play in the Denon 3910.
2. Scrap the JVC DVD changer (I don't want to. Booh! Hooh!) and hook up the 6 analog connectors to the 3910 so I could switch to the analog connections if it didn't play through the Denon Link.
3. I'm guessing here... Use a "Y" connector on each RCA jack on the EXT IN connection on the Denon 3805 receiver and split it from there. One split to the JVC and one split to the Denon 3910.

Option 3 looks like the most versatile option (if it would even work) but what a "Rats Nest" that would be.

What's your opinions?

 

[keenan]

Mitch;


I think it will work with 3910. Last time I checked, Denon got provisioning from Sony to do this. Its a rough time right now to get ahold of the right people at Denon with all the prepping for Cedia, but rest assured all of this will be covered by us in detail with our Cedia coverage coming soon.

Really? Not to doubt the quality of your information, but when was the last time you checked? This would be astoundiing news if true. Everything I have read or learned up to this point in time indicates Denon has been applying for approval for over 20 months now to no avail, in fact my thinking was it was never going to happen considering the addition of IEEE1394 to Denon's newer players and to the new receivers that are coming out. Personally, it's a minor interest to me as I think the player(5900) sounds better than the receiver(3805) but it would be nice to have the ability to at least compare the analog and digital paths for SACD over Denon Link.

Jim

 

[gene]

Really? Not to doubt the quality of your information, but when was the last time you checked?

I checked this a month or so ago but will bring it up again at Cedia to make sure. Everybody is slammed getting ready for the show right now so sit tight.

 

[keenan]

I checked this a month or so ago but will bring it up again at Cedia to make sure. Everybody is slammed getting ready for the show right now so sit tight.

Gotcha, I have been sitting so long(20 months) I can't feel my butt anymore.

Until then,

Jim