Marantz's new high-end Blu-ray player

by Ben Drawbaugh posted Jan 4th 2008 at 1:54PM

Supposedly Marantz's new Blu-ray player was at CEDIA, but if it was, we missed it. We won't let that happen again next week and we guarantee we'll get our hands-on the new BD8002 at CES next Wednesday. This players seems it may be one of best players ever considering it includes everything we can think of -- as it should with a MSRP of $2,099.99. At the top of the list is the players ability to decode just about every new audio codec out there including Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD MA, and output it via 7.1 analog outs or uncompressed via HDMI. The icing on the cake is the inclusion of the 10-bit Silicon Optix Realta video processor, which should help make it the best Profile 1.1 player yet when it's released the second quarter of 2008.

Filed under: Blu-ray

Tags: BD8002, ces 2008, Ces2008, Dolby TrueHD, DolbyTruehd, DTS-HD, DTS-HD MA, Dts-hdMa, Marantz, Silicon Optix, SiliconOptix

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TrentD @ Jan 4th 2008 2:05PM

Marantz and Denon are owned by the same company - this is likely the delayed Denon player under a different badge.

D&M Holdings = Denon and Marantz.

It would have been nice for this to have been a dual-format player, considering Denon's history is full of universal players.

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Greg @ Jan 4th 2008 2:06PM

My Dream player :)
Will no doubt find a nice niche in the high end Home Theater installs.

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rg23 @ Jan 4th 2008 2:15PM

For $2k, it should be able to wash dishes for me. That's more than twice the price of a dual format player that supports Dolby True-HD and dts-HD AND with an HQV chip.

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DEEZNUTZ @ Jan 4th 2008 2:18PM

Perhaps, but it wouldn't elevate your status within the Home Theater Elite like this player would now would it? You would be all the rage on the AVS Forums for a whole 5 posts... certainly worth the $2K doncha think?

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rg23 @ Jan 4th 2008 3:12PM

Why not? I could buy a Denon receiver instead.

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TrentD @ Jan 4th 2008 2:52PM

The Realta chip is the highest end model HQV has for home - the Reon VX is the lower end model that the Toshiba XA2 and Onkyo units use.

I don't think it'll really matter for HD output - no scaling is involved.

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philip @ Jan 4th 2008 5:32PM

Too bad marantz wont be at CES to check it out.

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Galley @ Jan 4th 2008 3:24PM

Anyone wanna buy a slightly used spleen? Only $2100 (plus removal fees)!

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EQC @ Jan 4th 2008 3:29PM

From the "Read" link:

"Additional information (subtitles, audio streams, camera angles, trailers, games, etc.) can be downloaded from the Internet via computer and stored on a SD card that either player will accept. This content can be played with the original content of Blu-ray Discs."

For $2,000, why the hell can't they include the ethernet port and 1GB of storage on-board to make it profile 2.0 capable? What early-adopting guy wants to spend $2k for the highest of the high end and then walk a little SD card back and forth to his computer? I guess he's supposed to have his butler do it?

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