Pioneer brings more affordable Blu-ray options to UK

Pioneer has introduced a familiar trio of Blu-ray players to the British market -- entry-level, midrange and a high-end LX model. The company is going to kick things off in the middle in June when the BDP-320 (pictured) shows up on shelves wearing a £400 MSRP, followed in July by the appearance of the £550 BDP-LX52 and £270 BDP-120 for those who need more luxury or cash, respectively. All models are Profile 2.0 and lossless codec support, but it doesn't look like the UK-spec models of the BDP-120 and 320 don't seem to carry the 7.1-channel analog output thats the US models do, so it's either pony up for the LX52 or go the Bitstream route, friends. Persistent storage is handled by an 2GB USB flash drive for BDP-120 buyers, the other two models have onboard storage.

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 4th 2009 1:36PM]

Nice to see Pioneer continuing with there Blu-ray players, and having options for everyone and all rooms.

The are continuing to build blu-ray players, receivers, and have a new speaker line up.

Hopefully they'll be a display technology that comes along that allows them to get back into the television business. They do it better than anyone else.