New Onkyo Universal SACD/DVD-Audio/Progressive Scan Player Details (1 Viewer)

[Eujin]

I'm on the Audio Revolution newsletter and just received their latest issue in my inbox today. Here's what they had on the new Onkyo player:
http://www.audiorevolution.com/news/...vdplayer.shtml
I don't have any use for this, but I remember a couple of people discussing this player last week. Enjoy!

 

[Greg Hamilton]

Here are some larger pics of the 800..
FRONT - DV SP800
REAR - DV SP800
The Onkyo debut:
ONKYO DV SP800

 

[Rich Wenzel]

coolio

 

[Rich G]

Looks pretty impressive. Wonder what the street price will be?

 

[Kevin C Brown]

Rich- I'd bet $750.

Anyone know if Analog Devices NSV Precision Video 108 MHz/12-bit video D/A converters will have the chroma bug? Do Onkyo DVD players now have it?

And, from the back, looks like it's made in Japan. That's a good thing.

No info on bass management yet...

 

[Chuck C]

Here she is at onkyo's site:
http://www.onkyousa.com/model.cfm?m=...&class=dvd&p=i

 

[John Kotches]

Kevin,

The Analog Devices parts you mentioned are Video D/A convertors, and will have no effect whatsoever on the presence or absence of Chroma bug.

I suspect that this and the Yamaha players are based on the Pioneer DV-47A OEM Kit.

They Yammie will include deinterlacing via the Faroudja chipset, so it has the potential to mask any effects of the chroma bug.

I don't know which deinterlacing solution the Onkyo employs, but the DCDi logo was not on the front panel.

Yes, the Pioneer MPEG decoder (I think it's a Mitsubishi part) has chroma bug.

Regards,

 

[KeithH]

John said:

They Yammie will include deinterlacing via the Faroudja chipset, so it has the potential to mask any effects of the chroma bug.

That's very good news. Hopefully it will be free of the chroma bug. It's nice to see someone making a universal player and not "copying" Pioneer's design.

 

[Aaron H]

Anyone heard of a release date for the Onkyo or Integra universal player?

Aaron

 

[John Geelan]

Looks good! I would put that player on my list if I was in the market for a SACD/DVDA player.
But I'm happy for now with my Sony 775/Pan RP91 combo. Both of these only cost $650.

 

[John-Miles]

Anyone knwo if this has Bass management?

 

[Aaron H]

My local Integra dealer said the 8.3 is suppose to be out this month. Maybe it won't be such a long wait afterall. Of course, we still don't know how this unit will perform......

Aaron