Pioneer launches BDP-LX91 Blu-ray player

BD-Lived up "reference-quality" offering

Pioneer launches BDP-LX91 Blu-ray player View more images

20 January 2009 9:56 GMT / By Amy-Mae Elliott

Pioneer has announced the launch of its BDP-LX91, the company's flagship BD-Live Blu-ray disc player.

The reference-quality player features are said to be built with the industry's most advanced components including a Pioneer-Renesas jointly developed core processor chipset.

With a 16-bit video engine to provide "impeccable" video decoding, I/P conversion, video scaling and video adjustments, Pioneer promises "superior" picture performance from upscaled-to-1080p DVD as well as Blu-ray.

The BDP-LX91 offers 7.1 channel Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio decoding and bit stream output, dual HDMI outputs and CD playback.

The BDP-LX91 features BD-Live, or Profile 2.0, so gets an Ethernet port that allows users to access interactive and online content and take part in online chats, games and the like.

With an aluminium chassis and ultra-rigid steel bottom plate, the player's official pricing is around the £1500 mark.

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Comments

  • The price is ridiculous, they want people to adopt this new format but price it way to high. It doesn't even play games. I'll wait till its £300 and even that's expensive compared to DVD. Posted by Brian, England
  • Lol, brian this a higher tier blu ray, this won't drop to £300. Its got all the bells and whitsles to offer the best picture and sound. Posted by mooo , UK
  • Price alone hardly means quality. The chipsets to surpass the PS3 in Blu Ray quality still have not been created and probably wont for a long long time. The price is inline with other previous Pioneer Blu Ray players and this should be one of the best 'Blu Ray only' players. . Posted by Yh, UK
  • Could someone explain to me how you can get a better quality zero or one than it simply being zero or one? Posted by Jaromir, UK
  • No doubt its still has that anti competitive chain of Region encoding firmly shackled to it. Posted by Robert, UK

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