Hands-on / a look within Pioneer's Elite BDP-09FD Blu-ray player

Pioneer didn't bring a whole lot of firepower to this year's CEDIA (though it did toss in 16 new speaker models), but the star of its show was definitely the über-expensive Elite BDP-09FD Blu-ray player. Thankfully, the company had a couple of units setup for photographing, one of which was dissected within a glass case. Needless to say, we snapped images from each, giving you a rare look at what makes this thing worth $2,199. As with most of its Elite components (HDTVs notwithstanding), this unit was also on the chunky side, but it's still a beauty in our eyes. The gallery awaits your attention.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 4th 2008 7:20PM]

yeah.. shiny black box whoopee

from the looks of a pics it's more of a "Hands-off" session

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 4th 2008 7:29PM]

What's with all of these hands on articles?

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 4th 2008 7:42PM]

it's what you do after your press release blog post; you take some pictures of some shiny gizmo behind plastic and call it a "hands-on" and make a second blog post

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 4th 2008 7:30PM]

I don't know what most of that stuff is, and don't own a BR disc, but damn I want that.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 4th 2008 7:38PM]

$2100 for a blu ray player. Right. Next sucker please.

[danhawk911 Posted Sep 4th 2008 8:09PM]

I hope bb with mangola caries these

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 4th 2008 8:09PM]

test

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 4th 2008 10:00PM]

This is "high end" Pioneer. You'll find very solid build quality like what was the standard for hifi components 30+ years ago. It should also have very impressive specs. But as good as the cheap stuff is these days I doubt most people could tell in a side by side blind test.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 4th 2008 10:49PM]

wow, discrete DAC for each channel, as expected on higher end units thou.
however, the blu-ray drive looks similar to a PC one. It is very disappointing.
And I believe many people are expect to see some anti-vibration mechanism of the drive.
Only one transformer, very very disappointing.
Pioneer should put at least 2, one for digital and one for analog.