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(More customer reviews)This is one awesome Blu-Ray player. It plays everything we've thrown at it so far.. even our home-produced DVD+R/-R videos (which the manual does not indicate it could even play)! It is also great to be able to play my .MP3 music files and .JPG slideshows from SD cards! However, just two little quirks have held me back from giving it 5 stars:
Denon really needs to either put more useful buttons on their remote, and/or make the menus easier to access, and/or make switching to/from SD cards and Discs easier. For example, after you play a DVD, if you want to play a photo slideshow from your SD memory card, you have to go into menu after submenu to switch playing modes from "Disc" to "SD card". How ridiculous is that!!!?? It gets me mad every time I have to do it. Why not just have this in the top menu, or put a button on the remote for that? OR, BETTER YET -- why not have the player DETECT if a card or disc is inserted and automatically switch to that mode!!!!! Puuuulllleeeeeaaaaze, I have an inexpensive VR3 car stereo that can do that! It will switch to disc or SD card, whichever you insert last. Now come on, why can't Denon do that??
Also, for photo slideshows, you have to search somewhere in the menus to find the setting for how long a pause you want between photos. And, there is no option for "None", or even a very long pause. It gives you either "5 sec." or "10 sec". Again, how ridiculous? When we had guests over recently, we wanted to be able to narrate each slide and then jump to the next, but we had to keep pressing the back button to go back after it jumped to the next one after 10 secs.
Ok, well I've vented long enough I guess. But they are the only 2 things we are unhappy about with it, especially since it is a high-end expensive player. Otherwise, the player is completely awesome -- has a nice sleek look, plays well, upscales nicely, doesn't take a very long time to load, and runs fairly quietly (although we do have it inside a closed cabinet). We have ours hooked up via HDMI cable, and the video and audio are great. No complaints there. We looked at literally EVERY brand of Blu-Ray player to find one that also has an SD card player, and at the time, this is it baby! I would say it is a worthwhile purchase.
APRIL 2010 UPDATE:
Up until now, this Blu-Ray player has worked flawlessly. HOWEVER, it now skips and locks up halfway through most Blu-Ray discs we've gotten from Netflix. Not sure what the problem is. We upgraded the firmware and it still has this problem. We suspect it cannot handle the newer copy-protection schemes. And the firmware updates are way too few and far between. So Denon is very poor in the support area. We are currently looking for a newer, different brand Blu-Ray player with internet connection so upgrades are much easier. We spent way too much on this Denon player for the short length of time that it has worked well. :(
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This is the most affordable Blu-ray player available from Denon. BD profile 1.1, picture in picture support via secondary video and audio circuitry, standard DVD processing and scaling up to 1080p. 3:2/2:2 pull down. HDMI 1.3a output with deep color support. DivX ver. 6 support. 1080p/24pfs output capable. SD Card slot for downloaded web content, bit stream bypass for Dolby TrueHD and dts-HD output.Capable of CR-R/RW and DVD-R/RW. @ channel analog output features Burr-Brown DACs.
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