Believe me, the guy that just dropped $ 15,000.00 on a Sony VPL-VW200 SXRD front projector will not blink at spending $ 1300.00 on his Blu-Ray player, if he thinks he will get a (slightly) better picture. If you are annoyed by this price, then you are not a serious home theater owner. This is much less than most high-end DVD players from Theta, Krell, Mark Levinson, etc., and probably much better until they catch up with the format. In addition, if you care about audio quality, the seperate boards make a lot of sense, since the jitter issue associated with HDMI will make off-board decoding and D/A conversion problematic for sometime to come. (Remember, while the visual cortex is an integrator with a maximum frame rate of about 16Hz, the audio cortex is a differentiator with a frame rate above 100 khz and has proven to be MUCH tougher to fool - that is why some people still play LP's).
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Believe me, the guy that just dropped $ 15,000.00 on a Sony VPL-VW200 SXRD front projector will not blink at spending $ 1300.00 on his Blu-Ray player, if he thinks he will get a (slightly) better picture. If you are annoyed by this price, then you are not a serious home theater owner. This is much less than most high-end DVD players from Theta, Krell, Mark Levinson, etc., and probably much better until they catch up with the format. In addition, if you care about audio quality, the seperate boards make a lot of sense, since the jitter issue associated with HDMI will make off-board decoding and D/A conversion problematic for sometime to come. (Remember, while the visual cortex is an integrator with a maximum frame rate of about 16Hz, the audio cortex is a differentiator with a frame rate above 100 khz and has proven to be MUCH tougher to fool - that is why some people still play LP's).