Marantz's pricey BD8002 Blu-ray player on sale in UK

by Darren Murph posted Jan 29th 2009 at 5:59PM

We were told at CES that Americans would have to wait another quarter or so to take possession of Marantz's pristine-but-pricey BD8002, but Britons can grab one and simultaneously stick their tongues out in this direction right now. A number of UK-based retailers are now stocking the Profile 1.1 player, but given the current economic situation, we have to wonder who all is willing to hand over £1,799 or so for this thing. Then again, a $131,000 cellphone sold out in just three days late last year, so we suppose anything's possible.

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Charles Nelson @ Jan 30th 2009 1:22AM

Blu-ray profile 2.0 is also available in the market. You can find the product reviews of the Blu-ray players at http://www.youreviewbluray.com/.

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go4broke @ Jan 30th 2009 3:54AM

Sadly, this is a profile 1.1 player and for that amount of money no matter how great the sound/image is if its not profile 2.0 I'm not buying it.

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Bob @ Jan 30th 2009 5:13AM

You would have to be sitting on your brains to buy this.

All BD players share the same basic chip-sets anyway (e.g Sigma, Broadcom), pushing the same/similar pure digital decode over HDMI.

I'd be very surprised if PQ is much different, to say, the upcoming $199 Vizio.

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