Blu-ray Players Yamaha BD-S2900 Blu-ray Player - Benchmark
| Yamaha BD-S2900 Blu-ray Player - Benchmark |
| Written by Adrian Wittenberg |
| Wednesday, 15 October 2008 17:00 |
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Conclusions Yamaha’s BD-S2900 has excellent core video performance giving it superb picture quality during Blu-ray playback. It has speedy load times, the ability to bitstream output the latest sound codecs and implementation of Virtual Package, which is the next best thing to BD-Live. All of these things make it an attractive unit. Because the BD-S2900, down converts dts-HD Master Audio and Dolby True HD formats to 5.1 through PCM, this player is best used with a receiver that can decode the HD lossless codecs on its own. The BD-S2900 is not a player I can recommend as an all in one solution as its standard DVD performance is not up to snuff and it’s also missing attractive features such as playback of SACD, DivX, VCD, or WMA formats. Strictly for Blu-ray, this is a player with very strong performance, but Yamaha would need to update it to make it more of a complete solution. Comments (9)
Too Expensive
written by Josuah , October 17, 2008 I can't see how Yamaha can release a Blu-ray player at this price point when the same Blu-ray video quality and possibly better DVD video quality and feature support is found in competing products from Sony, LG, or Samsung.
Looking forward to Secrets reviewing one of these...
written by FiguredMaple , October 17, 2008 Don't forget the Panasonic DMP-BD55 and Panasonic DMP-BD35, which seem to be the best bang for the $$ right now.
Panasonic's Blu-ray players
written by AdrianW , October 18, 2008 We are currently working on obtaining review samples of both the BD35 and the BD55 from Panasonic.
Yamaha not in touch with reality
written by EWL5 , October 19, 2008 This player sounds like a dressed up BD30. I thought the Denon 2500 was expensive and looks like Yamaha wants a piece of that pie.
Decoding HBR audio
written by fyzziks , October 22, 2008 It was unclear from your review whether the unit decoded TrueHD and DTS-MA internally or not. You seemed to indicate the PCM conversion was bad in some way, but correctly decoded PCM from TrueHD and DTS-MA bitstreams is the original audio data, right?
BD-S2900's Internal Decoding
written by AdrianW , October 24, 2008 If you let the player decode the format than it will down convert DolbyTrueHD, Dolby Digital Plus, and dts-HD into Dolby Digital or DTS Digital giving you only 5.1 channels of surround sound at 48khz sampling rate instead of 7.1 channels at 96kHz sampling rate.
$1200 and still using marginal video processing?
written by westcott , October 27, 2008 How much money does one have to clear on a player? Is the cost of a Silicon Optix solution really that expensive to implement? There are still great deals to be had on the Sampsung BDP 1200 so tell me again why I would invest $1200 in the new Yamaha player? There are some good things about competition I miss in this whole format launch.
Panasonic BD35 and the BD55
written by Larry Siegel , November 24, 2008 Any idea when you will have reviews on these or similiar Blu-Ray Players. You guys do an incredible job. Thanks!
comparing to a samsung....
written by Danny , December 14, 2008 Comparing the BD-S2900 to a Samsung.... Did you ever start a Samsung BD??? The noise these machines make... And the picture... Not going to start about that... The Yam is superiour to the samsungs (1000,1200,1500) by MILES... Sony's 550 and pana's 55 also do well on picture, but as a CD player, the Yamaha kicks ANY blu-ray player at the time. Conclusion: not the most options, but with an HD receiver (with musical qualities, like Yamaha's DSP models) its a super combo! Write comment
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