Ouch, it does look a Funai although in fairness it looks closer to the Philips BDP7200 than to the Sylvania / Magnavox brands. Funai are the OEM for all of them but the cheaper models don't have the 5.1 analogue or optical outputs. Still a lot of money though for a badge and new case when the BDP7200 can be had for $300.
It's not the first time either for Onkyo to rebadge a player and slap a huge premium on it. Their DV-HD805 player was a rebadged HD-XA2, both of which were OEM'd by a company called Alco.
“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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Ouch, it does look a Funai although in fairness it looks closer to the Philips BDP7200 than to the Sylvania / Magnavox brands. Funai are the OEM for all of them but the cheaper models don't have the 5.1 analogue or optical outputs. Still a lot of money though for a badge and new case when the BDP7200 can be had for $300.
It's not the first time either for Onkyo to rebadge a player and slap a huge premium on it. Their DV-HD805 player was a rebadged HD-XA2, both of which were OEM'd by a company called Alco.