Any opinions? It sure seems to be pretty nice, especially at a street price of $1300.

I like the scaling, analog outs and other advanced video features.

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It is an excellent unit. One under the A1, which the Mac player is based off of.

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How did you come about that info?

WOnder what the price of a Mac BR player will be. And how its 2 channel performance will be?

Because I know things.

It will be expensive and, as with any other mac component, have great sound quality for any mode you use it for...

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I'll hold off on the Denon. There may be good news to come from Apple. Perhaps the ability to rip BR on iTunes. Imagine, a BR movie server.

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I've had BD ripping and service capibility for awhile, Mike. And as long as you have a solid Gig-E LAN, you can support multiple streams from a single server (assuming said server has dual Gig-E NIC's).

iTunes is nothing special - and to compress BD is sacrilige. In fact, there are many H.264 versions of BD's out there that fit onto a single layer DVD-R that you can playback in any BD player... But the audio is lossy and the video is compressed.

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Vesuvius,

My post was deleted

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I didn't do it!

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I don't know.. My first choice is the Denon, but before I was going to go for that one I was going to try another brand first. (and move it to the guest room) Maybe I should not have mentioned them?

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Probably.

Right now the best bang for the buck player is the new Panasonic line. DMP-BD60 & DMP-BD80. The 80 has the built in analog 7.1 outs.

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