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Originally Posted by PunkMunkey
Have you considered the Oppo HD970?...pretty much the same deinterlacer/scaler (Mediatek) and it does do DVDA/SACD...it'll pass pluge and has no Y/C delay, as a matter of fact it's seems it's got all the strengths but none of the drawbacks of the Pioneer (including region free capability)...it even upconverts if that's what you're into. It is about $30 more than the Pioneer however.
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And from what I hear it only outputs 480i/p over component and all other resolutions over HDMI. Also, the Secrets test of the
Oppo 970HD indicated this playback issue with SACD:
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Originally Posted by HomeTheater HiFi Secrets report
A bug that I ran into with the 970HD is playback of DVD Audio and SACD via HDMI. I am currently using the Anthem Statement D2 A/V processor in my system, and it is HDMI 1.1 compliant. But for some reason, the only way to get the full output support of DVD Audio and SACD is if I set the output of the 970HD to 1080i. Otherwise it is truncated in both resolution and number of channels present. Anything other than 1080i results in stereo only playback, even if 5.1 sound was selected. I informed Oppo and Anthem of the issue, and it is being looked into. Oppo has tested this feature on numerous receivers that support HDMI 1.1 and apparently some have this issue and some don’t, so if this is an important feature to you, make sure you check it out if you purchase this player. Oppo’s customer support is superb, so I am quite sure that they will do anything and everything they can to help.
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I don't think he's looking to replace his DV-588a at the moment.
Peace...