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Local BestBuy Magnolia has the Pioneer BDP-94HD on sale at $499 ($999 retail). It is the floor demo model (last one in stock as Pioneer is coming out with a newer model - looks the same visually and video-wise, though is will be different audio-wise and will also retail for $999)... worth buying over a regular DVD or other Blu-Ray player? Plus my 42" Sony is only 1080i... meaning will I benefit from getting Blu-Ray?
Dave
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Same situation at my local Best Buy/Magnolia. At $499, the 94HD would seem to be a good deal; I spotted it at BB on Saturday and asked the salesman to check other stores in the area to see if they had any new units selling for that price, and (naturally) none of them did; he saw only 1 unit at each of those stores, meaning that those were likely floor models, too. (I hesitate to buy a floor model, especially, as in this case, when the store doesn't have the original box or manual.) In any case, the new 95HD has been getting very good writeups over at the AVS forum. They're also reporting that the 95HD is simply a rebadged Sony BDP-S500 (or vice-versa; Pioneer evidently supplies Sony with many, if not all, of the components), and I've even read that the 94HD and the entry-level Sony BDP-S300 are equivalent. (The S500 has also been getting very favorable writeups at the AVS forum, BTW, and it's $300 cheaper than the 95HD, though it lacks a few features of the Pioneer.)Russell
The one I saw in Mongolia Audio had 45 seconds to wait.
Blu-ray looks spectacular on a good 1080i set (as does HD DVD).
I'm not sure the Pioneer player is a good buy at the moment. It's a 1.0 profile player, and one of the reasons it's being discontinued is the new profile players are due Any Day Now. There are questions as to whether the 1.0 players will be able to play new-profile media.
$500 isn't a huge sum for us wealthy audiophools ;-) but if you want to dabble in Blu-ray right now it's probably better to buy a cheaper throw-away player. The Sony BDP-S300 is selling for under $400 in many retail stores.
I think 1.1 is going to be the biggie, and others, like Profile 2.0/aka "BD-Live" aren't going to be important.
The Denon(s) will be 1.1, for $2K and a little less for the bare bones model. Sharp is coming out with 2 player/recorders with huge hard drives (500G,1T) this December in Japan, I don't know if they'll even make it to the US. The two dual players. Any others?
Jack
What is 1.1 versus 1.0? A firmware issue?
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