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Pioneer Elite BDP-HD1

Last updated
March 27, 2007
Hands On Reviewed by
Lincoln Spector
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Price when rated - Pricing: Very Expensive $1500 (as of 2/20/2007)
Overall design - Good On-screen menus - Fair
Ease of Use - Good
Responsiveness - Poor
Remote control - Good
Other features - Good
Documentation - Very Good
Performance Color quality - Very Good: 84
Detail - Very Good: 86
Brightness and contrast - Very Good: 84
DVD-Video image quality - Very Good: 83
Overall performance - Very Good: 84
Specifications - Good Maximum component-video-output resolution - 1080i
24p output support - Yes
HDMI output - Yes
HDMI version - 1.2
Maximum HDMI-output resolution - 1080p
Ethernet connection (for Internet connectivity) - No
Ethernet connection (for streaming content across home network) - Yes
DLNA compliance - Yes
USB 2.0 ports - No
USB port function - Not applicable
Component-video Output - Yes
S-Video output - Yes
Composite -video output - Yes
Two-channel analog audio output - Yes
Coaxial digital output - Yes
Optical digital output - Yes
Maximum audio output over HDMI - 7.1-channel PCM
Best audio output over S/PDIF - 5.1-channel Dolby Digital Plus
Bitstream output to audio/video receiver - Yes
Other audio features - Supports playing audio over a home network
DVD-Video upconversion - 1080p
Plays audio CDs - No
Supported DVD disc formats - DVD-R, DVD+R, DVD-RW, DVD+RW
Plays MP3 DVDs - Yes
Plays MP3 CDs - No
Support for two simultaneous video streams (for on-demand picture-in-picture) - No
Supported multimedia formats - WMV, WMV-HD, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4 AVC, MP3, WMA, JPEG, JPG, PNG, GIF
Storage - Not applicable
Firmware updates delivered via? - Disc mailing/Web download
Disc bookmarks - No
Media slots
Other features - Home Media Gallery home networking feature
Warranty - Two years parts/two years labor
Weekday support hours - 10.5
Saturday support hours - 0
Sunday support hours - 0
Toll-free support number - Yes
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