Pioneer DV565-A
Posted on August 1, 2005, under general.
While in Cork, we popped into Munster Sounds, which is exactly where Richer Sounds used to be and is in fact the same place, except that they replaced every instance of “Richer” with “Munster”. They had a few interesting things there, but the most to me anyway was the Pioneer DV565. It’s a DVD player, with component out, does progressive scan, will play SACD’s has component out for video, digital out for DTS/DDS aswell as analogue 6-channel out for SACD playing. All for €199, which sure isn’t bad. Oh, and it came in silver and multi-region pre-modded.
In the past I’ve mocked John Lyons for his intolerance of interlaced signals, but now with this thing hooked up to my projector I can definitely see the astonishing difference progressive scan makes. The images are much better, something I didn’t think possible considering how good it looked already.
The player is also much better at other things, it’s a programmable CD player for one thing, with some pretty complex programming options, and the UI is extremely well designed, making it easy-peasy to make come pretty complex configurations. The subtitles and menu options are anti-aliased, and very nicely too and it can all be tweaked in a lot of different ways.
It took a while to wire up to my amp and projector, but now that it is, I can definitely recommend it to anyone considering getting a good DVD player. Now, to buy some SACD’s and find a multi-channel HD PVR.
Noirin on August 1, 2005
No-no-no…
Now to program the all-in-one remote, damnit!