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Originally Posted by chlngr1970
Acording to the people I spoke with from Denon, their BD chassis are complete fabrication by their R&D team. The way they talked, they were a completely new design, done totaly in house.
But since Sony didn't make their BD Player, why should Denon make theirs? I know that the lower end Denon players were made by Finai...or one of those companies...so... 
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When DVD first came out, Denons were based on Panasonics. It appears the same has occured with Blu-ray. Also, the same could be said for the HD DVD side - when Onkyo first came out in DVD they were based on Toshiba players, and the same occured with HD DVD.
Now there could be changes such as more robust power supplies, more hearty mechanical parts, etc. But when everything is digital, the question is how much does these type of things help the resulting A/V output, and how much is just overkill? If there was some analog signals present in the box then definitely we could see that higher end parts might help the resulting signal. But with an all-digital design, I'm more skeptical upon what could really be improved. Perhaps a better video scaler, however Denon has not advertised this in the lower end model - only the $2k model appears to have Realta. On top of this, you actually
lose outputs from the BD30. So what are we getting for the money that makes it double the price of a Panasonic BD30 which it appears to be based on?