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Originally Posted by videoworx
Transport is a fancy term that simply means there's no analog conversion (or any kind of decoding) going on. It' just a drive. There are any multi-thousand dollar CD transports out there.
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Yes I'm familiar with the term transport, but if this was truly a transport it would not work with any HDTV as they do not have builtin MPEG2, AVC, and VC-1 stream decoders; as you stated, a transport has no decoding going on, and this so-called "transport" is decoding the original video bitstream internally. CD transports output the PCM digitally to be decoded, this does not output the video bitstream digitally to be decoded. And even if an HDTV did have the capability to decode all those codecs, there is no cable transmission spec to actually transmit them "bitstream" (HDMI is TDMS). Therefore the term "Transport" does not really apply here.
So, the question is, why did Denon care to invent this term for a video player that is not truly a transport anyway? I noticed that the more expensive Denon PLAYER has "Latest BD-J support" as a feature while the TRANSPORT does not. Instead, the transport just says "outputs full HD audio and video" - and I bet that releasing a BD "Transport" allows Denon to sidestep the BD Profile 1.0 deadline for PLAYERS. No mention of BD-J or interactivity at all with this player. Sounds Profile 1.0 to me, no?