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Just before the end of the year, Denon has another surprise for home cinema fans: The new top-of-the-line Denon AVC-X8500H is expected to be released in January 2018 and will also be upgradeable to the recently finalized HDMI 2.1 standard via a firmware update. We want to briefly summarize what is currently available for information.