Pioneer’s Latest Blu-ray player specs have been leaked on the internet. The rumor has it that Pioneer Elite BDP-09FD will be the best Blu-ray player available in the market, surpassing even PS3 performance. The BDP-09FD is the first Pioneer unit to support Profile 2.0 and BD-Live with 4GB of internal storage. It will also cater for more conventional media, like CDs and DVDs, making it one single box for all. Each one of the units 7.1 analog outputs is equipped with their own digital to analog converters. Video comes by the way of one of the industry’s leading image processors and is fed over two HDMI 1.3a jacks. Pioneer Elite BDP-09FD will be available soon enough with price on the upper ante of $2200. [CrunchGear]
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Nice specs, but I thought that the price for blu ray was supposed to go down, not up. It seems like its still out of reach.
I really hope they put a solid, non-plastic drive into this thing. I’ve seen way to many expensive players where this has been omitted.
Also, with the thorough (and *very* welcome) effort that has been put into the analog stage, I would really hope it isn’t too late for them to seriously consider adding SACD & DVD-Audio. It would be such a waste not to have it.
It also isn’t stated whether it supports DivX/XviD, but that is obviously extremely useful as well. (And a feature which all recent Pioneer’s have had.)