Denon DVD-3800BDCI, Panasonic DMP-BD50, and Samsung BD-P1500 BLU-RAY players compared

[JadedRaverLA]

Odd that they chose to run the article now. I think once the new Pioneer and Sony models are available, many more magazines will be doing these kind of articles, but putting the Denon against just the Panasonic and the Samsung seems like "jumping the gun" a bit.

Originally Posted by crackinhedz

My guess is because only a handful of blurays even use High Resolution...perhaps royalty fees for the HR logo are a factor? (although admittedly I have no earthly idea how royalty fees are even applied for use.)

Perhaps its a money issue? when overall, Dts-HD HR is not really needed.

Shouldn't be an issue. If a company licenses DTS-HD MA they get all the "legacy codecs" and other DTS HD codecs along with it. I would guess that whoever made the SOC (I'm way too lazy to look it up ATM) was either rushed to get it out the door to Denon, or didn't care enough to include support for a codec no one really cares about. If the player can decode DTS 24/96, can support >5.1 DTS decoding, and can read DTS HD file headers (all of which this one should be able to), there's really no reason not to properly support HR mode of DTS HD.

Originally Posted by stick99

When you are referrring to "transport", in the above review, are you talking about the Denon Stand alone Blu Ray transport that's available on it's own? (2800BD) I ask as I'm interested in that as stand alone Blu ray player. I currently have a Marantz DV9600 and a Oppo 983HD for regular dvd's.

He must be, as that's the only current model sold as a transport (though you could argue that other models, including the tested Samsung, are essentially transports as well).