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Originally Posted by plissken99
Well, unless Denon makes a reciever with Reon, I'm stuck. Normally I don't believe in brand loyalty, but Denon rules in audio. Maybe the XA2 is worth it, afterall I'll have DVD to watch for a long time. And the cheaper upcoming Denon BD player is more than twice the price of a used XA2.
BDs are already superb, HD-DVD and DVD would improve with the XA2, bringing everything up to snuff... Decisions, decisions. I can get one for $362 shipped, all it means is another month of credit card debt lol.
BTW, just realized I posted this in the software section, my bad.
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Denon does make a receiver with Realta processing (AVR5308CI), but that puppy is over 5 grand and won't be out until the end of this month. As for one with Reon processing, I'm not too sure.
So for the quality and price, the XA2 seems like a good choice. $362 is great deal for an XA2. As an XA2 owner I can vouch for it's excellent upscaling capabilities. And as an added bonus , with a firmware update of 2.7 you will be able to send out a bitstream of TrueHD, DD+, DTS-HD, DTS-HD MA via HDMI to a compatible receiver. I recently did this and am just awaiting the Denon AVP-A1HD to be able to benefit from it.
And yes the Denon Blu-ray player is probably going to be the best one on the market, but at $2k or so for the player, the XA2 looks like the way to go.
I have absolutely no regrets getting my XA2 machine, as I have quite a few HD DVD's (50) and a ton of standard DVD's (1,600). So for the upscaling alone the XA2 is well worth it.
Seth