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So WTF, and what's with the price? Is it just profit gouging or does it actually cost over $1,000 to build a frigging blu-ray player?

Sounds more like corporate suicide more than anything else.

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Unfortunately, it does cost over $1000 to build a BD player that lives up to Marantz sound quality standards. That said, since most folks are connecting their BD players to an external processor via HDMI, all the money Marantz pours into making the analog audio outputs sound so amazing is probably wasted on most of the market. Notice that the top of the line Denon has ONE connector on the back, and that's an HDMI port. IMHO, that was a better way to appropriate the parts budget on a BD player. There is a small but loyal market for what Marantz is building, and those folks will undboutedly be pleased.

Bottom Line: you can't play Madden on the Marantz, so I think you made a wise choice in maximizing the return on your BD player investment!]]>May 19th 2008 4:32PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/05/19/marantz-bd8002-blu-ray-player-gets-june-date-for-japan/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/05/19/marantz-bd8002-blu-ray-player-gets-june-date-for-japan/
I use the high end stuff, but I still just don't understand paying 2k for digital transports or digital cables.



FYI, my current player is a Toshiba HD-A2. Yes, the 100 dollar walmart special kind.]]>May 19th 2008 6:12PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/05/19/marantz-bd8002-blu-ray-player-gets-june-date-for-japan/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/05/19/marantz-bd8002-blu-ray-player-gets-june-date-for-japan/
Take other audiophiles and now you will really understand why analog output is desirable. Let's say you own Krell, Lexicon, Classe, McIntosh, etc and spent 5 grand for a processor and another 4 grand for your amps. Luckily, the amps will work with whatever you get it, so you keep those. But unfortunately for your unlucky ass, the awesome processor of yours has no HDMI and you need to upgrade. Either buy another 5K processor, or you can simply run analog inputs to your current receiver.

That said, why the hell does this thing cost so much? Can't Marantz or Denon, or somebody else make an affordable Blu-Ray player capable of 2.0 compliance and analog outputs? Come on, guys! Pay your engineers to do something besides play in Matlab!]]>May 19th 2008 7:48PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/05/19/marantz-bd8002-blu-ray-player-gets-june-date-for-japan/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/05/19/marantz-bd8002-blu-ray-player-gets-june-date-for-japan/
http://us.marantz.com/Products/Blu-Ray-DVD.asp

I notice some of their DVD players aren't exactly cheap either - their DV9600 is $2000. Stupid money really.]]>May 19th 2008 5:37PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/05/19/marantz-bd8002-blu-ray-player-gets-june-date-for-japan/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/05/19/marantz-bd8002-blu-ray-player-gets-june-date-for-japan/May 19th 2008 6:00PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/05/19/marantz-bd8002-blu-ray-player-gets-june-date-for-japan/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/05/19/marantz-bd8002-blu-ray-player-gets-june-date-for-japan/May 19th 2008 6:06PM