recommend blu-ray to pair with legacy HT receiver?

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recommend blu-ray to pair with legacy HT receiver?
« on: 28 Dec 2009, 09:08 pm »
I would like to add a blu-ray player to my "mostly for music, but I enjoy movies too" system.  I am looking for:
  • price ~$300 give or take, would prefer $150
  • works with my legacy Pioneer VSX-1014TX HT receiver to produce a very good 5.1 soundtrack.  The 1014TX has only optical and coax digital inputs, DTS, Neo.6, Dolby Digital, etc., and has no HDMI.  I'm very happy with this receiver and have no plans to "upgrade".  I enjoy DVDs with DTS soundtracks on this system (when I can find them) and would be very satisfied with that level of audio performance from the new blu-ray player.
  • is equipped to stream movies from Netflix, etc. 

Thanks for your help,
Peter

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Re: recommend blu-ray to pair with legacy HT receiver?
« Reply #1 on: 28 Dec 2009, 09:44 pm »
I was considering selling my Sony BDP S1. It's in great condition and has optical and coax connections. Let me know if you're interested.

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Re: recommend blu-ray to pair with legacy HT receiver?
« Reply #2 on: 30 Dec 2009, 05:15 am »
The only one I know that would stream and come close to $150.00 would be Best Buy's Insignia brand, not sure of exact model.  Next step up I'd look at the Samsung models.  I believe the BD-P2500 is an older model but it had the Silicon Optix video chip set and would be a nice unit if you can still get one.  They now make a couple models that stream.

If your receiver has multichannel analog inputs, consider buying a Blu-ray player with the multichannel analog outputs and built in decoding for Dolby Tru-HD and DTS-MA.  The HD audio formats can be decoded in the player and fed to the receiver via the MC analog input.  Be sure the player also has adequate speaker setting adjustments because analog will bypass the receiver's internal processing.

If no analog inputs, you will still enjoy slightly better audio from Blu-ray as the digital via optical/coaxial is still less compressed than on DVD, but Tru-HD and DTS-MA are Lossless formats after decoding that are supposed to be true to the original master soundtrack.

If your receiver offers HDMI but just don't have the decoding, check with the manufacturer to see if it accepts a PCM signal via HDMI.  If so, you can still receive HD audio via HDMI, just make sure the BD player has built in decoding for the HD audio formats and when setting it up set the HDMI output to PCM.

Probably more than you ever wanted to know but no extra charge :)

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Re: recommend blu-ray to pair with legacy HT receiver?
« Reply #3 on: 26 Jan 2010, 12:43 am »
PS3, there's a reason why Criterion chose to use it over any other player on the market.

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Re: recommend blu-ray to pair with legacy HT receiver?
« Reply #4 on: 26 Jan 2010, 01:25 am »
I'm not sure of all the Oppo features but they have a player coming out at under $300.00 now.  I'm pretty sure the 83 doesn't stream.

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Re: recommend blu-ray to pair with legacy HT receiver?
« Reply #5 on: 1 Feb 2010, 10:40 pm »
The PS3 is nice, fulfills you requirements, streams Netflix, and plays games.
Nice machine, but I would recommend the accessory remote.

Bob

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Re: recommend blu-ray to pair with legacy HT receiver?
« Reply #6 on: 1 Feb 2010, 11:25 pm »
The PS3 is nice, fulfills you requirements, streams Netflix, and plays games.
Nice machine, but I would recommend the accessory remote.

Bob

I'd concur