The Denon DVD-A1XV looks like high-end player for those of you who did not come to play. For the $5,000 price tag you get a handful of A/V geek firsts for any DVD player, like Silcon Optix Realta chip and 10-Bit DVDO Professional Scaler—support for THX and 5.1 sound, as well. Component Video output with Gold BNC connection and two IEEE-1394 outputs allowing you run hot at all times? All yours. But in the all-singing, all-dancing parade of features, there’s one sticking point: the DVD-A1XV promises HD resolution playback, and DVD’s aren’t high-definition. How do they do it? Massive upsampling. Maybe it would be better to wait a year and get a Blu-ray or HD DVD player.
DVD-A1XV [Denon UK via Digital Media Thoughts]
