DVD-S97

Audioholics has posted a review of Panasonic’s latest HDMI upscaling dvd player, the DVD-S97. The DVD-S97 sports a HDMI 1.1 interface which in addition to video allows DVD-Audio to be transported digitally as 6-channel PCM data to any receiver with an HDMI 1.1 port; the Panasonic SA-XR70 is just one example of such a receiver. The DVD-S97 continues Panasonic’s trend of releasing inexpensive dvd players with excellent video quality thanks to the use of the Genesis FLI2310-LF to perform the deinterlacing and scaling duties. Audioholics seemed particularly impressed with the video quality and were somewhat dissapointed with the user interface responsiveness and the remote control. This dvd player does enhance macroblocking on some displays so if you’re display exibits this problem you may want to avoid this player but if not, the DVD-S97 is one of the top budget HDMI upscaling dvd players on the market.
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