PIONEER ELITE BDP-09FD Is Revealed. . .

[ehb1550]

At long last, the new Pioneer Elite Player, said to be the most elaborate of them all has now begun to hit web pages everywhere. Just out link: http://http://www.crunchgear.com/200...9fd-leaks-out/

[Centauri]

That thing would sink a barge.

[Arkadin]

link won't work for me for some reason, but I read another article.
That player probably won't be out for months.
I mean the "newest' Pioneer player is not even out I don't think, so I can't imagine how long till that player makes it out.
For $2,200 I would hope it's the ultimate Blu-ray player, and it sounds like it will be.
The other article said it was going to have 14 different picture adjustment modes.
Pioneer definitely knows how to make a high-end product that's for sure.
That's more than my Kuro cost which just seems crazy.
but you know what--if I had the $$ to waste--I would probably get this player in a heartbeat.

[Guns4Hire]

Yeah link didnt work for me either.

[Centauri]

http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/08/22...yer-leaks-out/

[resevilfan86]

Heres some working links.
http://gizmodo.com/5040707/pioneer-s...rushes-the-ps3

http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/22/p...yer-leaks-out/

2 HDMI outputs, and u can designate them to be either audio or video...pretty cool.

[jcs913]

I wonder if it supports SACD and DVD-A. That would make it really the ultimate player.

[ack_bak]

Wow! This thing is a beast.. I so want one..

[leonardodicrapio]

Originally Posted by jcs913

I wonder if it supports SACD and DVD-A. That would make it really the ultimate player.

those formats are dead. you aren't going to see many playstation 3 owners using either of these formats, even though their player supports one of them (the sony-backed one -- sacd). if sony couldn't or didn't want to use the ps3 to resuscitate sacd, then sacd never really had any chance.

most people don't even know sacd or dvd-a exist. you're living in the land of mostly drm-protected (or even if they weren't drm-protected you would have to do a lossy conversion from aac to mp3 format in order to play on any non-apple mp3 player, except for the sony bean player, which hardly anyone owns -- i believe that most non-apple mp3 player owners have a sandisk sansa or creative zen, neither of which play aac).

if you want better than cd quality, you better hope that blu-ray audio takes off. you might have some half decent selection with blu-ray audio, and you will probably be able to get a blu-ray audio player for your car.

[Arkadin]

I love how the author says "why would anyone buy Pioneer's last batch"?
uhhhhh maybe because they are like $1500 less.

[jcs913]

Originally Posted by leonardodicrapio

those formats are dead. you aren't going to see many playstation 3 owners using either of these formats, even though their player supports one of them

There are a lot of things dead to most people. But audiophiles or music lovers would expect this type of support from a $2200 player. I would expect it to not be supported on most $400 players, but we are talking about a $2200 player, remember.