Pioneer BDP-320 Blu-ray Player (Review link)

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The Pioneer BDP-320 has some nice features like built in 1GB of memory and good video processor. The OPPO and Panasonic players will upconvert 480I DVD's to 1080P/24 but the Pioneer is limited to 1080P/60 upconvert. All Pioneer BLU-RAY players including first generation players output 1080p/24 for BLU-RAY discs. The biggest negative on this player is slow load times.

Select Quotes from review

"The BDP-320 is a Region-A locked machine, as tested by Fox’s Region-B locked edition of The Fountain. Only the Fox red screen popped to notify of the disc’s coding. It also doesn’t have the capacity to decode PAL special features into NTSC, as tested by Tartan’s I’m a Cyborg UK Blu-ray, so any supplements available in PAL on import discs will only play with sound running through the speakers."

"On an operational level, the BDP-320 also runs particularly quiet. "

"Pioneer’s BDP-320 is a powerhouse in the overall audio/video quality department, standing tall up against the heavy hitters in the game right now – both against Oppo’s BDP-83 and the cost-efficient Slim Playstation 3. "

"However, the Pioneer BDP-320 does have a few hindrances, biggest being the mammoth load times which can be very, very cumbersome. It all largely depends on the complexity of the Blu-ray disc you’re trying to fire up, but – for example – loading up Criterion’s Blu-ray of Monsoon Wedding took nearly two minutes from initial disc load to playing the film. "

The complete review can be read at the following website:
http://www.avrev.com/home-theater-video-players/blu-ray-players/pioneer-bdp-320-blu-ray-player.html