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In all honestly, a decent video scaling chipset (i.e. Anchor Bay or HQV) along with the improved build quality would push me to consider one of these players (as a refurb like mentioned above). With Samsung moving away from HQV, there's not a down-market BD player with superb video scaling for DVD. Oppo is doing a great job filling the middle-market, but the Samsung P2500/2550 will be missed when it comes to superb image quality on the lower-end... it just happens to have great Netflix and Pandora support as well, but would be well worth the price (street or refurb) even without. Not every BD player has to be an all-in-one solution for BD, networked contend, and file playback... especially one like this that's really for a niche market segment anyway.

But I guess that's all moot since a decent video scaler isn't mentioned, so unless it's hiding in there unannounced (unlikely based on Onkyo's past trends) it is still overpriced and underspeced. ]]>Jul 29th 2009 10:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/29/onkyo-shows-pride-in-its-dv-bd507-blu-ray-player-with-lofty-449/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/29/onkyo-shows-pride-in-its-dv-bd507-blu-ray-player-with-lofty-449/
I paid a hell of a lot more for the denon prepro but it sounds extremely good and denon keeps rolling out new firmware to tweak it and add new features.

I still buy Sony products as the ES line is pretty good. But if I was paying $500 for a BR player I sure would get OPPO without thinking twice. Maybe in another 20 years if Onkyo is still around they'll make something worth buying but I don't think I'll buy anything from them again any time soon.]]>Jul 29th 2009 10:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/29/onkyo-shows-pride-in-its-dv-bd507-blu-ray-player-with-lofty-449/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/29/onkyo-shows-pride-in-its-dv-bd507-blu-ray-player-with-lofty-449/Jul 29th 2009 2:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/29/onkyo-shows-pride-in-its-dv-bd507-blu-ray-player-with-lofty-449/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/29/onkyo-shows-pride-in-its-dv-bd507-blu-ray-player-with-lofty-449/Jul 29th 2009 12:53PM