I have a BD-UP5000 here and I've reviewed other players with the reon chip, not to mention my TV passes all the HQV tests with its internal upconverter, so I know what it looks like.
It just isn't a big enough improvement over the non-reon chips for me to buy a pleyer just for it. Maybe if the upconverter in my TV wasn't so good it'd be more of a factor.
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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I have a BD-UP5000 here and I've reviewed other players with the reon chip, not to mention my TV passes all the HQV tests with its internal upconverter, so I know what it looks like.
It just isn't a big enough improvement over the non-reon chips for me to buy a pleyer just for it. Maybe if the upconverter in my TV wasn't so good it'd be more of a factor.