Sony BDP- CX7000 ES 400 DISC Blu-ray Player

[BadAss]

The ES line BDP-CX7000 outputs 1080/60p and 24p True Cinema and features an RS232 connection and IR-in. It also uses Sony’s Precision Cinema HD Upscale technology when connected to a 1080p display via HDMI.

For video the BDP-CX7000 ES incorporates Sony’s HD Reality Enhancer and Super Bit Mapping technologies. HD Reality Enhancer brings out details and reduces the effects of film grain. Super Bit Mapping delivers smoother color gradation realizing true 14-bit equivalent color tone from 8-bit sources
This player provides 1080/60p and 24p True Cinema output in a 400-disc changer. The model also integrates Precision Cinema HD Upscale technology.
It output's 7.1 channel analog, as well as 7.1 channel Dolby TrueHD and Dolby Digital Plus, DTS-HD High Resolution Audio, and DTS-HD Master Audio decoding.

The mega changers also make use of Gracenote’s MusicID and VideoID which provides content information for music and videos like film cast, release year and genre.

[The Spanierd]

Im all over this when it comes down a bit from MSRP. $599 sounds about right, but obviously we have to wait and see some review regarding the player abilities.

[ctyank]

I love mine... heck of a toy! Having all of my movies on the screen for me to select rules! You can sort your collection by slot number, by title, by genre and by director. You can update all those fields as well.

It isn't the end-all though. The network lookup is slow. Fixing Gracenote picture errors is impossible. Load times are average. Worst is that there's no wireless way to connect it to the internet.