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One must wonder where the street label will land on these in a month or even weeks. In a competitive landscape where quality 7.1 analogues are below $300 (ie 320), lightning bustle and quality upconversion are below $225 (JVC), and netflix and pandora streaming are available for $200, how a denon can explain a $500 MSRP player without a mark name chipset, mediocre accelerate, and only two channel out. It is a well-built, heavy player that looks awesome in a rack (not as masculine as a 2500/3800), but neither wins on performance nor wins on value.
The mid-range ($300 to $600) market segment is book-ended by the Pioneer 320 on one slay and the Oppo 83 on the other. Players like the Denon 1610 struggle to stand out in regard to either performance or value, which is a uncertain proposition for the majority of us who are not brand-addicted. I know I have been probably a bit overly primary of higher branded players like the Onkyo 606 and 507 and the Harman Kardon BDP1, but I firmly have in quality and value. This is probably why I have banged on about both the pioneer 320 and the JVC XV BP1. They keep very high quality AV performance or lightning like a flash operation in the hands of normal folks in tough times.
The 1610 (and the 2010 for that matter) are a bit slack to the party and too expensive. I would strongly recommend the 1610 were its street tag unbiased under $300 (and I suspect it will be approach Halloween) . The 2010 is one of the few instruct competitors to the Oppo for pure BD/DVD performance. It has a better audio fraction, but worse video capabilities. It could be a trusty contender at $425-$450, but is comic at $600 or whatever they are going for.
With Denon DVD-2500BTCI's selling for under $300, I would be hard-pressed to recommend the 1610 for its modern street effect of $450.
With updated firmware, powered off eject time decreases from 17 seconds to 13 seconds (Same as 2010) .
Dark Knight: to anti-piracy page
Denon 1610: 37
JVC: 17 seconds
Oppo: 16 seconds
Pio 320: 42 seconds
Pio 51: 45 seconds
Denon 1800: 42 seconds
Denon 2500: 48 seconds
Denon 2010: 36 seconds
Pirates of the Carribean 1: Medallion Coin / Disney Splash
Denon 1610: 41/57 seconds
JVC: 16 /27
Oppo: 21 / 31
Pio 320: 44 /1 min 13 seconds
Denon 1800: 44 /1 min 3 seconds
Denon 2500: 49 / 1 min 9 seconds
Denon 2010: 39 / 49
Synthetic Test Resutls:
Test Pio 320/ Oppo /JVC /denon 1800 /denon 2500 /denon 2010/ denon 1610
2:02 pass/ pass*/ pass/ fail/ fail /pass/ pass
2:2:2:4 fail /pass /pass /fail /fail /fail/ fail
2:3:2:3 (PF-T) Pass /pass /pass /pass* / pass / pass*/ pass*
2:3:2:3 pass /pass /pass/ pass/ pass* /pass/ pass
2:3:3:2 marg /pass /pass /fail/ fail /fail / fail
3:2:3:2:2 fail pass pass fail fail fail /fail
5:5 pass/ pass /pass /marginal /marginal /marginal / marginal
6:4 marginal /pass/ pass/ fail/ fail /marginal/ fail
8:7:8:7 marginal pass pass maginal marginal marginal /marginal
24p - Pass pass pass pass pass pass pass
Time-adjusted fail pass fail marginal fail fail fail
Video deinterlacing:
Moderate performance; excelled with scrolling text, but did have very tranquil jaggies on ship test.
