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Pioneer DV-400V-K Upscaling DVD Player

Wed, Mar 12, 2008

Pioneer DV-400V-K Review:

The Pioneer DV-400V-K is a DVD player that does exactly what you’d expect, plus that little bit extra. The Pioneer DV-400V-K has an HDMI output with 1080p upscaling, ensuring that what you see is of the highest possible quality, regardless of the source. The Pioneer DV-400V-K also has a USB front-in host, which means that you can also play content on your USB audio player or memory stick. You can even play digital photographs whilst simultaneously listening to music.

Pioneer DV-400V-K User Said:

Pioneer DV-400V-K player has one important attribute that can be found on very few DVD players: The ability to output 480i over its HDMI port.

If a TV or projector has high-quality internal de-interlacing and scaling circuitry, the Pioneer DV-400V-K’s delivery of 480i content through its HDMI port might provide the best possible picture. This 480i output is the native video format as it is encoded on DVDs and the Pioneer player can transport this 480i content from the disc in digital format to a TV or projector. The TV or projector can then perform its own de-interlacing and scaling, often producing better results than a DVD player can produce using its internal processors. In many cases, “jaggies” will be completely eliminated and 3:2 pulldown will be consistently perfect when a high quality TV is presented with 480i digital content. This 480i output is also the ideal format to send to external video signal processors.

Other DVD players can produce 480i output, but only through their component outputs. While other DVD players have the ability to output 480p, 720p, 1080i and 1080p from their HDMI ports, the Pioneer DV-400V-K has the unique ability to also output 480i — an attribute which gives this player a distinct edge over its competition. Quite often, de-interlacing as well as film cadence and detection can be best performed by a high quality TV, when presented with a 480i digital signal.

By One-Shot Scot

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