There is no theatrical soundtrack that is in 7.1 ALL theatrical soundtrack is 5.1 with the 6th channel being matrixed. 7.1 is only re-mixed for home use, thus is nothing other than gimmickry.

Give Super Hi-Vision. I don't care for 3D. 1080p is just not enough for home-theatre with projection system when viewing 2.35:1 ratio movies.

"using the external DAC in this box"

There is no DAC in this box. This box just allows the user to extract raw digital data from his/her iPod/iPhone and use an external DAC such as Cambridge Audio DAC Magic.

Do they put the XDE upscaling engine in it?

How do you evaluate HDTVs in-store?

you don't!

why?

because you can't! The store lighting environment is very different that of yours.

Wow! The load time is much faster than any BD player on the market! That (and the uninevitable pirated discs) will make this format flourish!

Digital download? yeah right. The quality of digital downloads (AppleTV, cable, satellites) is sub-sub-sub-par to Blu-ray. And that's just the picture quality. The sound quality is even worse.

This year's Pineer receivers have been using ABT 1015 from the get go (including SC-25 and SC-27), how HT Mag claimed the 1019 to be using Faroudja is beyond me.

Although the 3D glasses can be worn over regular glasses. It's awkward and heavy (even if you don't wear glasses to begin with). I can't imagine using it for more than 20 minutes. Even the 10 minutes demo feels too long to wear those heavy glasses.

I wish they just use passive system (circular polarizer a'la the ones used for comercial theatres). It's already proven to work and it's cheaper to buy the glasses (about $10 as opposed $100+ for LCD Shutter Glasses system)

It was shown on their 103" plasma.