Pioneer Announces New Blu-ray Players

[welwynnick]

Originally Posted by HD Man

In line with the premium movie experience its products provide, Pioneer sought to create jitter-free playback and dynamic sound quality for music CDs. When connected to a new Elite receiver (SC-05 or SC-07) via HDMI, the BDP-05FD enhances CD playback with the proprietary Precision Quartz Lock System (PQLS). This advanced feature synchronizes music data coming from the Blu-ray Disc player to the receiver giving music fanatics a revolutionary high resolution listening experience far exceeding traditional methods.

This is the bit that I'm really excited about. It sounds like Pioneer will be the first to exploit the new Audio Rate Control functionality in HDMI V1.3a that apes the isochronous i-link connection they used to use to great effect. Both these interfaces use an amplifier-driven rate control function that loosly synchronises the player to the amplifier, rather than the other way round. This has huge benefits with audio playback. Hopefully other manufacturers will follow suit.

BR, Nick