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i only just found out panasonic will be releasing in a near future a DVD-Audio player (DVD-S97) with faroudja deinterlacing and HDMI output, together with a matching digital receiver (XR-70).okay, so the news has been out on various forums for a few months now but i didn't notice the significance till recently: this will allow a completely digital DVD-Audio path all the way to the speaker outputs. For a combined price less than US$500 this might be a killer budget DVD-Audio setup!
I must admit, I am very tempted. even though i already have three systems.
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It was originally supposed to be out in April and was shown as one of the audio/video shows in Jan. of this year. I myself am excited about this as well, if for nothing else to cut down on the rat's nest of cables behind my equipment rack. ;-)
I think the XR45 with Pioneer 563A running redbook via digital coax stands up to DVD-A and SACD run via RCAs. Dolby Pro-logic 2 will kick in proccessing a stereo source into very likeable 5 channel.5.1 24\96K full digital would be killer indeed!!
Hopefully the XR70 will have more power. The XR45 on 88db speakers runs out of steam.
You'd still need a seperate SACD player.
One will found lots of discussions there both about upcoming and already released players. Not that I'm shopping, mind you! :)
if only Panasonic would release the XR series in Singapore I could get excited about it.. :P
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