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

[Grubert]

Europe is going to have four Pioneer players for later this year:

BDP-LX71: LX Line Blu-ray disc player (BonusView / Profile 1.1). Available September
BDP-LX08: LX Line ‘Designer’ Blu-ray disc player (BonusView / Profile 1.1). Available October
BDP-51FD: Blu-ray disc player (BonusView / Profile 1.1). Available October
BDP-LX91: LX Line Reference Blu-ray disc player (BD-Live / Profile 2.0). Available in "winter"

The first three have:
- High Definition Audio Bitstream output
- High Definition Audio decoding
- Jitter-free HDMI CD Audio with PQLS
- 7.1 Channel Analogue Output
- KURO-style Graphical User Interface

The LX71 also has goldplated terminals aluminum front and touch buttons.

Press release: http://www.pioneer.eu/eur/content/pr...ayPlayers.html

Photos:


51FD


LX08


LX71


LX91 (prototype)

[frank_t]

wonder if these players will be able to process BD-J enabled titles as fast as a PS3?

[HD Man]

I'm still surprised that 3 of the 4 new players are profile 1.1 and not 2.0, even though they are for the Eurpoean market. Doesn't seem to help generate a lot of support for BD-Live, which I'm not that excited about either.

I know Pioneer is supposed to release a high-end reference Elite player this fall for the US, and wonder if it's going to be similar to the LX-91.