iPhone/iPod touch now control your Pioneer receiver

Seth Weintraub
|
March 04, 2010
|
Share


The new Pioneer VSX-1020-K receiver was announced today and it isn't just the next version of Gizmodo's Battlemodo champ and CNET Midrange editors' choice, though that does give it some credibility   The VSX-1020-K contains a "Works with iPhone" certification (with free custom Pioneer iPhone app, free) that allows you to connect up your iPhone have your way with your living room sound.  That's in addition to being able to browse your music on your HDTV. 

It is available for pre-order with a price guarantee at Amazon for $549.  iPhone screenshots below:

Product Features

  • "Works with iPhone" certification (with free custom Pioneer iPhone app, downloaded separately) and front USB connectivity provide iPod, touch, and iPhone users ultimate plug-and-play integration of their Apple products with their home theater
  • Simple connectivity of high-performance HD video, HD audio, portable, internet, wireless, and analog components makes this Pioneer receiver the ultimate A/V control center
  • The latest version of HDMI inputs and outputs provide more HD connectivity options with "future-proof" 3-D capability
  • 1080p video conversion and upscaling ensures the highest quality video from any source--even "legacy" analog and lower-resolution digital video sources
  • High-Power Discrete Transistor (HPDT) multi-channel amplifiers and proprietary Pioneer room calibration technology combine to ensure best-in-class home theater and music reproduction in any home

Here's the older model getting messed with:

Comments (3)

seo firm (not verified) | March 04, 2010 - 10:23pm

How does it connect to the receiver? wirelessly?

anyway, the single greatest thing about my receiver’s remote is that it is a learning universal remote too, just point another remote at it and it learns.

if they added IR TRANSMITTERS to this receiver, and a learning IR receiver, they could make it so you could, through the receiver, control all your other equipment too with the one iPhone app! that would be win.

Noobiest (not verified) | March 05, 2010 - 11:42am

@seo firm - Agreed. It seems to me like the best method would be to use Bluetooth. For Audio use A2DP. For the other nifty controls from the app you could send them via a simple serial protocol using SPP. That way, I don't have to tie my phone to my entertainment center. Also, I can use my phone as a remote via the app (without requiring an $80 easily lost dongle).

In addition, you would get for free support for BT stereo headsets.

Unfortunately, I see no reference to Bluetooth.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | March 05, 2010 - 6:05pm

Were you looking with your eyes closed?

Release Your Smartphone's Music with the AS-BT100 Bluetooth Adapter (sold separately)
For wireless connectivity, add a Pioneer AS-BT100 Bluetooth adapter (sold separately) to release your music from your iPhone, Blackberry®, or Android® smartphone as well as other Bluetooth-enabled sources like laptops. And the VSX-1020-K's Advanced Sound Retriever AIR technology makes sure that even your compressed MP3s are brought back to near cd-quality sound.