Glorious picture when not trying to reproduce large dark/stable areas of picture. Excellent component out quality. Lots of picture adjustments available.

Remote not lit. No screen saver. CD does not mute during fast forward (sounds like the Chipmunks). Macro block pixelation problems noticed especially at DVI 720p.

Back it went. Trouble in Paradise. With my Toshiba 34HDX82 at DVI 720p, I saw repeatable instances of the dreaded macro block pixelation problem. I clearly noticed this glitch in The Matrix between ~3:30min and ~3:45min into the movie: The back wall when Trinity's speaking on the phone kept subtley changing colors (with light washes of red and green), then when she's running from the Agent, there's black areas on the left and right which flashed black to dark blue. The same thing happened at the very beginning of the credits on The Day After Tomorrow, where the "camera" is going over the ice flows: In the initial transition from dark to water, the screen starts block pixelating black and blue images. Very disconcerting. I was also getting multi-colored snow running DVI 480p. The pixelation wasn't as noticeable at 1080i, but the picture quality wasn't as crisp the either. No issues whatsover with Denon's component output; that said, my old Panasonic RP56's picture was equivalent to the Denon's with component outputs. So, even though the Denon produced dazzling, crisp, and smooth picture quality most of the time at DVI 720p, the macro block issue was too annoying to watch once I was clued in [at first, I thought I was seeing details left out by the Panasonic, but more A-to-B testing (including the new HDMI-out Toshiba SD-5970) proved that false. I should mention I tested my HDTV with the Toshiba at both 720p and 1080i and I didn't see any problems (but neither did I initially see the beautiful picture the Denon could produce either). The Denon remains a disappointment. Yes: This could be my HDTV, but I doubt it based on my short testing.

Plays everything well.

None found yet.

I purchased this unit a couple of weeks ago after returning two Yamaha DV-C6770 units that quit working. This unit costs twice as much, but the build quality and improved sound make it well worth the price. This unit plays DVD-audio, SACD and HDCD formats in addition to everything else. It is quick to load and play discs of any format. Compared to the Yamaha and an older Sony unit, the sound from the 2910 seems very warm and natural. Sound quality on DVD-audios and SACDs is amazing. Video quality is outstanding too. I have this connected to NAD T761 AV receiver and a Sony XBR TV.

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Yamaha DV-C6770

Awesome sound on CD's and movies. Very detailed, vivid picture. Relatevely easy to set up and a quiet running machine.

Did notice some artifacting that I didn't notice with my Denon 2200. This was only visible on certain DVD's.

Well I will start off by saying that I reluctantly agreed to purchase the 2910 after my first two 2200's didn't work. The picture was great but half the time upon starting up the entire picture was green. The only reason I decided to go with the 2910 is because the dealer didn't have another 2200. I was very skeptical about any difference in the quality of this latest and greatest product by Denon. Many times I have purchased new and improved items in the past and the differences have been subtle at best. After waiting for several months they finally got one in. I was the lucky one to get it because of the problems I have had with the others. Supposedly there have only been 25 shipped thus far to the tri-state region so they are difficult to find. Upon plugging it in I was expecting basically the same thing as with the Denon 2200. I was wrong!! I don't consider myself to be a professional audio-phile however the sound quality of this unit immediately jumped out at me and surprised me. It sounds VERY good on music CD's and on movies. I couldn't believe how smooth and natural sounding my system sounds with this DVD player. The details in sound are incredible. It is a marked improvement over the 2200. On to the video quality, which I am more picky about. After spending some time analyzing the difference between the two on video quality I do have to give the edge to the 2910. The picture is very rich with color, and detailed. I found the set up menu easy to use. There are a decent amount of adjustments to tweak the picture. After messing with them for an hour I decided to set them all back at factory levels and just adjust it through my projector. Overall the picture on this DVD player is very good. At this time I have it set up wtih component video cables and not with the DVI connection. I'm anxious to try DVI because it is capable of upgrading to 720 or 1080i through DVI but It's so good now I'm not sure if it will improve the quality much. I did notice some artifacting of the picture that I didn't notice with the Denon 2200. I think it is part because the picture is so detailed that it also brings forth any flaws in the DVD's. On certain DVD's it is more prevalent than on other. (Garbage in Garbage out) This is really not an issue though. I'm viewing a 92 inch screen from 11 feet and it really isn't noticeable and most of it could be adjusted out. In summary, this DVD player really took me by surprise. I definately recommend it for any serious home theatre system.

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Denon 2200

Perfect colors, Lots of Detail in the picture, clean sound with fantastic audio/video DAC's

No i-link capibility (don't worry, this thing does not need a processor to decode) The button to change the track on the remote is very small, but is quite nice on the face of the unit

I would like to use this space to clear up a few of the remarks in other reviews. One person stated that they were disappointed that the 2910 with HDMI was worse than their 2900 with component. This is because the Panasonic 53X54 TV is not a digital TV like LCD, plasma, or DLP sets. This means that if you send a digital signal to the TV, it will need to convert it first to analog. Normally, the DVD player does this for you, but in this case you are having the TV do it. If the digital to analog converters (DAC) on the TV are not as good as the 2900 there should be an decrease in picture quality. Also, I am doubtful that the TV has other features such as noise shaped video to correct these problems. The 2910 has better video DAC than that of the 2900 (12bit 216mhz v 12bit 108mhz), so there should be an improvement if components are used. Also, another reviewer stated that it was a negative that the 2910 does not have scaled outputs through the HDMI/DVI outputs. This is an nonsense claim since none of the major DVD manufacturers at the time of this writing has this feature (there is at least one obscure brand). Here is my review: At the moment I use this player mostly for SACD/DVD-A playback. I am not completely familiar with the sound of all players, but I imagine that it exceeds most brands in the price range. It has a considerable amount of detail put into getting the most performance possible. The player is clean and smooth from the high-quality audio DAC's and small features such as a direct mode that allows for all video signals to be eliminated if desired (video signals cause noise to the signal). The video is great. I used a Sony S7000 DVD player before and I see considerably more detail in the picture with natural colors. I do not use the progressive scan feature because I already have a Farouja scaler to get the signal in RGBHV, so I can not comment on it. There are a million ways to tweak this thing and I am still trying to figure them all out. Highly recomended.

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Sony s7000

CD playback (was fantastic) Looks

Picture was not good enough low profile video noise artifacts

I bought this player about a week after it came out. The Salesman at BayBloorRadio said how its the latest and greatest. I must mention i had the DVD2900 and thought the DVD2910 was going to be better, BUT BOY WAS I WRONG. I only went with this player because my new PANASONIC 53x54 is equipped with an HDMI input and picture quality VIA this interface is supposed to be AWESOME. So to make a long story short just before i went to buy the new DVd2910 i sold my 2900 to a fellow on canuckaudiomart.com and i also sold my AUDIOQUEST YIQ-5 pure silver video cables to another guy, and boy do i have major REGRET. The picture quality on this new DENON is not nearly as SMOOTH as either the 2900 or 2800mk2 for that matter. I assume that this is because the 2900 and 2800mk2 use SILIcON images technology and the 2910 uses DCDi by Farouji. I also noticed alot of video noise with the 2910 which i NEVER EVEr saw with the 2900. Another problem was when a movie scene was black i could always notice BLOCK looking artifacts, THIS WAS THE STRAW THAT BROKE THE CAMELS BACK. So after 2 weeks i got rid of it. I tryed a cheapy PIONEER DV-578a and i can tell you for a 175.00 player it was ok. But once again too much video noise. So i now have a NAD T562 player, and other then its pickiness in regards to playing scrathed disks, its really good. I also payed 350.00 less for it then the denon. The funny thing about these two players is the NAD has only 54mhz 10bit processing and the DENON has 216mhz 14bit processing (weird). I just cannot figure out how something with 4 times the processing power can be out done by a 2year old+ player.

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DENON DVD2900, DVD2800mk2, NAD T562 (good picture for the cash) PIONEER 578a (Awesome cd playback)

No "Chroma Bug" Crystal clear image. Plays DVD+R(W) DL, DVD-R(W) without bitsetting. No problems with mastering errors, just plays!

No upsampling to 720p or 1080i through component video out (not that big of a problem, but this is the only thing I would have liked as well)

In search of a DVD player with progressive scan and without the "Chroma Bug" my choice went out to this player. After owning the first edition of the Denon DVD-2800 I hesitated buying yet another Denon because of the many "little" problems I had with it (Chroma Bug, no DVD+RW without bitsetting, no DVD+R-DL, mastering errors caused non playabilaty). I have never seen the 2910 in action before buying the unit, but knowing that it uses the Faroudja 2310 and the same video board as the Denon DVD-3910 I just had to choose this one (read a good review at [URL]http://www.hometheaterhifi.com/cgi-bin/shootout.cgi?function=search&articles=120[/URL]). Now tested the device, I have noticed no "Chroma Bug" whatsoever. The image is crystal clear, I have never seen a player which produces an image this crisp! Plays all discs I have thrown at it without a glitch! The sound is great (which I expected of course) and it is very user friendly. On very cool feature is that it upsamples 480p to 720p or 1080i, the only drawback is the fact that it has to be connected digitally (i.e. DVI or HDMI). If you are searching for a very good player at great compatibility and crystal clear image, I can assure you that you will love this player.

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Denon DVD-2800 First Edition

Nice build quality. DVI and HDMI outputs. Extremely competent across the formats. "Pure Direct" funcion can disable all unused circuitry for even higher fidelity during high-rez playback. Great value for the price.

I'm still looking!

Two months ago I purchased a Samsung DVDHD841. I wanted a unit capable of upscaling video to 1080i via DVI and also one which would give me an entry into the high rez DVD-Audio and SACD formats. The Samsung worked after a fashion. The DVI output was a leap up from my old $90.00 GoVideo (which still works fine after three years heavy use) but the high-rez audio playback kept cutting out and freezing. It was also very bass heavy. I tried two units and both suffered the same problems so, what to do? I looked at an Arcam Diva but, at $1700.00, it was out of my range so someone suggested I wait a couple of months for the Denon 2910. After looking at the spec's I ordered one sight unseen. I know a lot of you want to know if it was worth it. Well I can only answer an unqualified yes. The unit arrived a couple of days ahead of the $23.00 DVI cable I had ordered from www.pacificcables.com (you realy don't need to spend $100.00+ on a Monster Cable, especially for short runs) so, at first, I set it up first using the standard component outputs into my 42" Toshiba CRT RPTV. Wow! The picture qualty through component would alone have sold me on this player (so don't dismiss it if your monitor does not have DVI or HDMI). Colours were extremly bright, sharp and accurate. Using my last player I had to back of both the red and green guns in my TV about 10-15% to avoid white skin tones looking orange and brown and black skins looking unaturally green. With the Denon the skin tones remained resolutely pink to black even when I brought the colour guns back to full saturation. To be honest I could have just lived with the player in this configuration but when my DVI cable arrived I had to the digital output in action. My TV doesn't like 720p (it was the same with the Samsung), it looks smeary and desaturated (yours may not) so I set the output to interlaced 1080i. There's an even greater sense of sharpness and depth through DVI and, once again, those colours are spot on. Even though the player is outputting an interlaced signal in this mode I can detect no disturbing motion artifacts here, just a solid, almost three dimensional, image. Just Beautiful. The digital audio output from DVD soundtracks is superb. Far better than either my GoVideo or the Samsung. It's at once more solid in the bass (without being boomy) and lighter with more air in the upper ranges. In simple terms the Denon makes my speakers disappear leaving a truly enveloping, and superbly directional, surround sound. As far as the high-rez formats are concerned, I only have the memory of the Samsung to compare here. The Denon is clearly superior (as it should be) and has obviously been designed by a company with a clear audio heritage. I just know if I treat this player with care it will provide years of satisfaction across the the disc formats. I thought I could get away with the $200.00 Samsung player but, at the end of the day, it was too much for too little and couldn't live up to my most basic expectations. Denon offer a supposedly superior model in this range the $1200.00 3910. That unit would have to offer some serious performance to warrant consideration over this great mid-range player. Yes it's not cheap but even Denon's own catalog suggests you can spend a lot more and, I suspect, without much real benefit to the average earth dweller! A stellar effort.