Playback optimizing my foot! This is all about money. It always is. Denon can't sell the blu-ray disc players they have on the market right now. With the Oppo BDP-83 already in limited circulation and the economy in the tank, the D & M Holdings braintrust clearly realizes a 4000K pricetag for this unit will be doomed right out of the gate. If they priced the DVD-A1UD at $500, they still won't outsell the Oppo, and we all know a price reduction of that magnitude is not going to happen. Sure, there was a time when a consumer could walk into a store and be sold on the Denon name by some teenager, but; Those days are gone because there won't be too many big box stores left to pimp these overpriced, under supported mass productions. Hey Denon! If you want to sell a $4000 universal disc player to audiophiles in this market, it had better have a rather large blue meter with a brushed aluminum plate that reads McIntosh on the front faceplate, come with a ver 1.3 HDMI cable and a video calibration disc amongst its standard features package. Personally, I don't mind spending money on audio-video equipment, but; I'd much rather buy eight Oppo's for each room in the house than one Denon unit with performance that could be considered marginal at best when compared to the competition.
“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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Playback optimizing my foot! This is all about money. It always is. Denon can't sell the blu-ray disc players they have on the market right now. With the Oppo BDP-83 already in limited circulation and the economy in the tank, the D & M Holdings braintrust clearly realizes a 4000K pricetag for this unit will be doomed right out of the gate. If they priced the DVD-A1UD at $500, they still won't outsell the Oppo, and we all know a price reduction of that magnitude is not going to happen. Sure, there was a time when a consumer could walk into a store and be sold on the Denon name by some teenager, but; Those days are gone because there won't be too many big box stores left to pimp these overpriced, under supported mass productions. Hey Denon! If you want to sell a $4000 universal disc player to audiophiles in this market, it had better have a rather large blue meter with a brushed aluminum plate that reads McIntosh on the front faceplate, come with a ver 1.3 HDMI cable and a video calibration disc amongst its standard features package. Personally, I don't mind spending money on audio-video equipment, but; I'd much rather buy eight Oppo's for each room in the house than one Denon unit with performance that could be considered marginal at best when compared to the competition.