Media Devices

Denon have announced that their much anticipated, high end Blu-ray player, the DVD-3800BDCI. Will be released simultaneously onto the US and Japanese markets at the end of April.

The DivX Certified machine features 1.1 Blu-ray profile which will allow for the viewing of separate picture in picture video and audio streams. It is the first Blu-ray player to have included the Silicon Optix's 10-bit Realta HQV video processor. 

The player also has internal decoding for all Blu-ray surround-sound formats. Another first for the DVD-3800BDCI is the inclusion of HDMI 1.3a output which supplies a very large bandwidth allowing sound natively for external receiving and decoding purposes. And will also provide Deep Color support giving exceptionally high picture quality. 

The new Blu-ray also boasts the high end Realta sxT2 HQV processor to boost its already impressive hardware setup. Denon have also used the high quality audio decoding,  D.D.S.C.-HD circuitry hardware, which should provide original master quality sound, with an incredible dynamic range. 

One feature that does seem to be missing from the new Denon baby, is a basic Ethernet port. This would have allowed for simple and semi-direct playing of online content. Without the port it will be necessary to download media to your PC then move it across to the player through an SD card.