Saturday, June 7, 2008

Widescreen Review: BD-UP5000 HDDVD


Widescreen Review has published a review of the UP5000 in their Jun 08 issue and gave it a Very Positive. The reviewer was impressed with the great video processing capabilities as well as the fact that the affordability of the player combined with inexpensive HDDVD discs makes it a great buy.

Here are the pros and cons.

Pros:
- Ethernet port and updateable firmware
- Reon processor is fantastic
- Relatively affordable
- HDDVD can be had for cheap

Cons:
- Audio shortcomings due to lack of high resolution codecs
- Need firmware to upgrade to current standards

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