which one would you choose (1 Viewer)

[Peter Donovan]

If you could get either of these two for the same price:

1. Brand new Sony NS700P or

2. Factory refurbished Pioneer Elite DVC-36

My dilema is that I think the Pioneer is probably better built being an Elite and is a 5 disc (not a big deal), however, it is refurbished.

On the Sony side, it has true 3:2 pull down (I don't believe the Pioneer does, nor do the JVC's, at least that's my understanding).

I'd like to hear other's opinions.

 

[Dan Hitchman]

How about neither.

Both players are subject to the chroma bug problem plaguing many MPEG-2 decoder chipsets.

Try a Panasonic RP-56 (although it has an improperly implemented SAGE/Faroudja de-interlacer which could turn out to be as bad as the chroma bug).

The best overall player right now that isn't a HUGE amount of dough is the Panasonic RP-91 (no chroma bug), which also includes DVD-Audio playback. Also very easily upgraded via free downloaded software burned onto a CD-R or CD-RW then inserted into the player to update the firmware. The latest software upgrade v. 236 also seems to improve somewhat the progressive scan performance of the Genesis de-interlacing chip.

Dan