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RE: Pioneer Blu-Ray

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racerguy

In Reply to: RE: Pionner Blu-Ray posted by David Clark on October 29, 2007 at 06:32:13

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.

Follow Ups:

Agreed, go with Profile 1.1 - 4season 08:39:10 10/29/07 (4)
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.
- Not alot of players with Profile 1.1 on the horizon - Jack G 11:32:40 10/29/07 (0)
  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
- RE: Agreed, go with Profile 1.1 - David Clark 10:34:48 10/29/07 (2)
  What is 1.1 versus 1.0? A firmware issue?
  - more reading - Joe Murphy Jr 14:25:03 10/29/07 (0)
    .
    - Q&A on Profiles (Open in New Window)
  - Player Profiles - racerguy 10:38:53 10/29/07 (0)
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    - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blu-ray_Disc#Player_profiles (Open in New Window)

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