Pioneer catches up with 1.5-gen Blu-rayConservative Pioneer may be, but after sidelining its pilot Blu-ray player in Asia for months, the Japanese company is finally ready for prime-time with its BDP-LX70. Already on retail shelves through authorized Singapore dealers, the 1.5-generation standalone player is the latest blue laser entry following the recent debut of its fellow compatriot's BDP-S1E. This further upset the Blu-ray versus HD-DVD tussle to a four-to-two tally, leaving only vendors such as Panasonic and LG sitting out the competition.
This player is also the closet competitor to the Sony PlayStation 3, being DLNA or Digital Living Network Alliance-certified for its multimedia streaming function. Implemented through an inbuilt wired network port, the LX70 is capable of remote photo, music and video playback from a compatible storage server. Among the supported media formats are the now de facto JPEG and MP3. Other less popular but equally common flavors include WMA, WMV-HD, PNG and GIF. And if you already own a huge library of DVDs and CDs, there's no need to maintain two separate players as this Pioneer is compatible with these optical discs, too. To further enhance its playback performance in these areas, its designers have outfitted the LX70 with high-quality Burr Brown digital-to-analog converters, onboard DVD 1080p upscaling and have toughened up the chassis with a tank-like dual-layer construction. This is a tried-and-proven purist approach for enhanced vibration dampening found on audiophile A/V equipment. Launch details for the rest of Asia were not available at press time.
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