My Pioneer/Elite BDP-05FD has been shipped.

[rragland]

The following item(s) you ordered have been
Shipped:

Qty Product Description
1 - BDP-05FD - Elite Blu-Ray Player

Shipped via:
UNITED PARCEL SERVICE - WWW.UPS.COM

We hope you are pleased with your purchase and look forward to serving you again.

Sincerely,
Order Support Team

[CAB]

from?

[eChopper]

Congrats!!let us know if it lives up to the hype!

[Blu-ray Fanatic]

Originally Posted by rragland

The following item(s) you ordered have been
Shipped:

Qty Product Description
1 - BDP-05FD - Elite Blu-Ray Player

Shipped via:
UNITED PARCEL SERVICE - WWW.UPS.COM

We hope you are pleased with your purchase and look forward to serving you again.

Sincerely,
Order Support Team

Well good for you! Next time why won't you buy all of us one too? j/k

[Blu-RayLover]

OK. . .Here’s the situation. Tonight, I hooked up a BDP-05 FD to my Pioneer Receiver. Everything seemed to work fine on the HDMI side. I found the Bitstream most impressive, especially the DTS HD MA side. While, I wasn’t all that impressed with Dolby TrueHD, the assumed improvements on the Dolby side were rather slender or simply minor to my ear. But, perhaps there were simply too many issues I had with the player that are forcing me to take it back to Best Buy and wait to see what Sony can offer with the E5000ES.

Perhaps somebody could explain to me why is it that some of my DTS HD MA 7.1 discs, didn’t show up on the LED screen of the receiver, signifying that the SB or Surround Back Speakers were activated? Well, although I did hear a lot of sound coming from the SB speakers, I just don’t understand why on the film “Shoot em Up,” the SB channels showed up on the LED screen, when the opening DTS logo appeared, only to see the SB channels suddenly disappear on the LED screen, when the movie began! This situation has also happened with other 6.1 and 7.1 discs, while most of the discs (especially regular DVD’s) in my collection clearly show either EX or ES on the LED screen. . .Why? The funny thing about this DTS HD MA situation is that I have a special DTS 7.1 demonstration disc from the CES show of last year, and this disc shows up fine on the receiver’s LED read out, clearing showing that the SB surrounds are activated throughout the entire playback. Have I missed something here? Are some discs simply not going to show up in 7.1 on the receiver’s LED screen?

Anyway, the next problem I had was that I noticed the LPCM side was rather flat, through the HDMI. Even though the 05 comes with a level control feature to balance out the speaker outputs, I didn’t do the speaker level test from the player, since I had already done the levels with a sound meter at the receiver. Well, while I wouldn’t exactly say the LPCM wasn’t good, I think there is something to be said for “full channel management” that you fully get with the bitstream as opposed to a straight or direct sort of signal using the Blu-Ray’s internal decoder. I was hoping for better results with some of the features the 05 now has to offer.

The main reason for bringing up the issue of the LPCM side is because I then hooked up the 05 to an older Pioneer Elite receiver that had 7.1 analog inputs. Well, the results here weren’t really good, in fact, I found no improvement over my previous older model BDP-94FD Elite player!! Once again, I did the internal speaker level control in the 05, only to discover that connected to the old receiver, the SB channels and the subwoofer weren’t activated or there was no pink-noise to level off the signal!! I tried everything to get something of a signal from those channels to no avail. So, I just gave up and I found that sound did come from the subwoofer and SB channels once a Blu-ray disc was played!! Talked about confusing! Of course, the results simply weren’t as good or just plain disappointing when compared to HDMI. I wanted to think that the 05 and any of the other newer players could give good results on the analog side. Did I miss something here? At any rate of thinking, I tend to believe that no player, with any sort of internal decoding can offer the more fuller, impressive results that occur on the HDMI side.

Last I heard the new Pioneer Elite BDP-09FD does have some sort of management on all 7.1 channels from the player! My question about this player would be about the analog side and would this mean an overall improvement? But then, everybody will have to consider the high price tag that the 09 comes with at a whopping 2200 dollars!!! Please. . .Any suggestions or answers would be most appreciated!

[Woody]

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showt...5#post14420655

The 05 became available toward the last 20-30 pages of the thread. I would recommend you post your question in that thread.