Wednesday, March 10, 2010 - 17:51 (GMT+1)
Onkyo BD-SP807 early review: The Blu-ray player of your dreams?
Filed under: Blu-Ray, DVD | by: Jelle | Views:818
CNet UK: Do you dream of Blu-ray players? If the answer is ‘yes’, then we suspect the Onkyo BD-SP807 might be the player that features in your brain’s nocturnal activities. What makes this machine factor in so many happy dreams is that it offers stunning-quality hardware at a wallet-friendly price. The £600 BD-SP807 is intended to best machines that cost twice as much, and we’re very pleased to have got our hands on one for testing purposes.

The BD-SP807 has a fairly interesting appearance. Quite a large player, it’s roughly the size of early machines from the likes of Panasonic and Sony. In the BD-SP807’s case, however, the size, weight and design are all intended to produce the best picture and sound quality possible from Blu-rays, DVDs and even audio CDs. It’s not ugly either. It looks quite industrial, but that’s kind of cool. The LED display is rather basic, but we’re not too bothered about that — it’s not like you have to watch a film on it. Read more…


The first thing that could, should, be better is the limited support for frame rates. Movies have been recorded at 24 frames per second for longer than our parents have been alive, and for about the same amount of time we’ve had to endure frame rate interpolation to make movies play back on our 30Hz TVs — you know, like 3:2 pull-down.

