Newbie Review by Steve Smitty Newbie Product Reviewer:
The Pioneer Elite DV-59AVi DVD Player gives you an excellent picture quality and picture enhancement. This universal Disc Player has built-in Dolby Digital and DTS decoding and plays back DVD-A and SACD. It has outstanding audio and videoing. The pictures and sound are like real life with the HDMI @ 1080i. Some of the other great features are: Plays Discs from Regions 1,2,3,4,5, and 6! Plays REA and RCE discs, Plays both NTSC and PAL discs (requires multi-system TV or converter), Plays DVD, VCD, DVD Audio, SACD (Super Audio CD), Audio CD, DVD-R, DVD-RW, CD-R, CD-RW and MP3. It also has Pixel Conversion from progressive 480 x 720 to HDTV 1280 x 720p. pure cinema Progressive Scan, 14-bit, 216MHz video Digital-to-Analog converter, Burr-Brown Chipsets, for extraordinarily pure audio processing. Plus Twin-Wave Laser Pickup and it plays DVD-Audio (DVD-A) and Super Audio CD (SACD). I also love the trick play processor for smooth scanning, still/step play and the slow motion playback The outputs are: Composite x 2, S-Video x 2, Component x 1, HDMI x 1, Analog Audio x 1, Analog Surround x 1, Digital Audio Coaxial x 1, iLINK. I also like the 2 year warranty that it comes with. With this player you can also send digital video and audio to compatible televisions with the HDMI output. “ It's a great dvd player, and if you really want a one to give you the best performance and quality then this is the player to get.”
