Pioneer BDP-LX 70

Simon Gronow · External Since: Nov 15, 2004 Posts: 10

Does anyone know when the Pioneer BDP-LX 70 is to be released?

Pioneer's web site says June 07
Magazine's I've read says June 07

JB Hifi Told me Mid July, but now it's September

Anyone got the inside word?

Rgds
Simon.

Henry · External Since: Jun 30, 2007 Posts: 6

On Fri, 6 Jul 2007 19:36:49 +1000, "Simon Gronow" <srg DeleteThis @babcom.net.au>
wrote:

>Does anyone know when the Pioneer BDP-LX 70 is to be released?

$2000 for a blu ray player is a bit rich considering its not even hdmi
1.3 like the latest Ps3 consoles which play blu ray and at a fraction
of the price.

I have a Samsung lcd 46" one of the newer ones along with a basic 19"
for the kids room.

The 46" using a Ps3 with blu ray is out of this world.
My mate bought early and has the Samsung blu ray player and a older
Samsung lcd and the colours are no where near as sharp as what I get
on my ps3.

My next purchase will be a blu ray burner so that I can place my hd
recordings onto blu ray to watch at a later date.

>
>
>Pioneer's web site says June 07
>Magazine's I've read says June 07
>
>JB Hifi Told me Mid July, but now it's September
>
>
>
>Anyone got the inside word?
>
>
>Rgds
>Simon.
>

Alan Rutlidge · External Since: Apr 02, 2007 Posts: 87

"Henry" <Henry.RemoveThis@nospam.com> wrote in message
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> On Fri, 6 Jul 2007 19:36:49 +1000, "Simon Gronow" <srg.RemoveThis@babcom.net.au>
> wrote:
>
>>Does anyone know when the Pioneer BDP-LX 70 is to be released?
>
> $2000 for a blu ray player is a bit rich considering its not even hdmi
> 1.3 like the latest Ps3 consoles which play blu ray and at a fraction
> of the price.
>
> I have a Samsung lcd 46" one of the newer ones along with a basic 19"
> for the kids room.
>
> The 46" using a Ps3 with blu ray is out of this world.
> My mate bought early and has the Samsung blu ray player and a older
> Samsung lcd and the colours are no where near as sharp as what I get
> on my ps3.

That's probably because he hasn't done the firmware upgrade on the Samsung
player.
Apparently earlier production models had a noise reduction function in the
Genesis chip enabled which softens the image considerably and mutes the
colours slightly. Installing the updated firmware solves this problem.

Cheers,
Alan

Henry · External Since: Jun 30, 2007 Posts: 6

On Fri, 6 Jul 2007 19:00:19 +0800, "Alan Rutlidge"
<don't_spam_me_rutlidge@iinet.net.au> wrote:

>
>"Henry" <Henry DeleteThis @nospam.com> wrote in message
>news:l76s83pb2is3o08b2hd17edfg6nrcu084e@4ax.com...
>> On Fri, 6 Jul 2007 19:36:49 +1000, "Simon Gronow" <srg DeleteThis @babcom.net.au>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>Does anyone know when the Pioneer BDP-LX 70 is to be released?
>>
>> $2000 for a blu ray player is a bit rich considering its not even hdmi
>> 1.3 like the latest Ps3 consoles which play blu ray and at a fraction
>> of the price.
>>
>> I have a Samsung lcd 46" one of the newer ones along with a basic 19"
>> for the kids room.
>>
>> The 46" using a Ps3 with blu ray is out of this world.
>> My mate bought early and has the Samsung blu ray player and a older
>> Samsung lcd and the colours are no where near as sharp as what I get
>> on my ps3.
>
>That's probably because he hasn't done the firmware upgrade on the Samsung
>player.
>Apparently earlier production models had a noise reduction function in the
>Genesis chip enabled which softens the image considerably and mutes the
>colours slightly. Installing the updated firmware solves this problem.

Its to do with the samsung bdp1000 only having hdmi 1.2 and his
samsung lcd only being hdmi 1.2 too.

Massive difference between hdmi 1.2 and 1.3

He has the latest firmware but on moving/rolling or fast scenes there
are jaggered edges where on my ps3 on my samsung 46" there are no
jaggered edges on the same scenes and the colours look much more real.

Chris Runner · External Since: Feb 03, 2005 Posts: 75

I saw one today at HN.

$2000 was correct. Great pic
"Simon Gronow" <srg.DeleteThis@babcom.net.au> wrote in message
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> Does anyone know when the Pioneer BDP-LX 70 is to be released?
>
>
> Pioneer's web site says June 07
> Magazine's I've read says June 07
>
> JB Hifi Told me Mid July, but now it's September
>
>
>
> Anyone got the inside word?
>
>
> Rgds
> Simon.
>

john · External Since: Dec 03, 2003 Posts: 7

"Henry" <Henry.DeleteThis@nospam.com> wrote in message
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> On Fri, 6 Jul 2007 19:00:19 +0800, "Alan Rutlidge"
> <don't_spam_me_rutlidge@iinet.net.au> wrote:
>
>>
>>"Henry" <Henry.DeleteThis@nospam.com> wrote in message
>>news:l76s83pb2is3o08b2hd17edfg6nrcu084e@4ax.com...
>>> On Fri, 6 Jul 2007 19:36:49 +1000, "Simon Gronow" <srg.DeleteThis@babcom.net.au>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>>Does anyone know when the Pioneer BDP-LX 70 is to be released?
>>>
>>> $2000 for a blu ray player is a bit rich considering its not even hdmi
>>> 1.3 like the latest Ps3 consoles which play blu ray and at a fraction
>>> of the price.
>>>
>>> I have a Samsung lcd 46" one of the newer ones along with a basic 19"
>>> for the kids room.
>>>
>>> The 46" using a Ps3 with blu ray is out of this world.
>>> My mate bought early and has the Samsung blu ray player and a older
>>> Samsung lcd and the colours are no where near as sharp as what I get
>>> on my ps3.
>>
>>That's probably because he hasn't done the firmware upgrade on the Samsung
>>player.
>>Apparently earlier production models had a noise reduction function in the
>>Genesis chip enabled which softens the image considerably and mutes the
>>colours slightly. Installing the updated firmware solves this problem.
>
> Its to do with the samsung bdp1000 only having hdmi 1.2 and his
> samsung lcd only being hdmi 1.2 too.
>
> Massive difference between hdmi 1.2 and 1.3
>
> He has the latest firmware but on moving/rolling or fast scenes there
> are jaggered edges where on my ps3 on my samsung 46" there are no
> jaggered edges on the same scenes and the colours look much more real.

I don't think PQ has much to do with different implementation of HDMI, I
have playstation 3
and I can assure you that I have a video processor that only have HDMI 1.2,
the picture quality
is superior with my PS3 through my video processor than plugging PS3
straight to my projector...
>