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New Pioneer Blu-ray players get (approximate) pricing

Pioneer announced three new Blu-ray players back at CES 2009, but without pricing it was hard for us to gauge whether they were a good value. This morning we saw a story over at Big Picture Big Sound with pricing for the players, and after confirming with Pioneer, we were able to at least get some official price estimates. The BDP-120 (less $300 MSRP), BDP-320 (less than $400), BDP-23FD ($600, confirmed) are all set to come out in April, and their pricing puts them on par with Blu-ray players we saw at the end of 2008.

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Pioneer serves up trio of new Blu-ray players

Editors' note: This post has been updated since initial publication, to include recently announced pricing information.:

Pioneer has been making Blu-ray players essentially since the format's inception, but we don't get around to reviewing many of them because of their hefty price tags.

The company announced three new Blu-ray players here at CES 2009, one of which features Pioneer's Elite label, and the two cheaper models look to be priced competitively with other manufacturers.

Key features of the Pioneer BDP-120:

Profile 2.0-compatible Onboard Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio decoding 1GB USB flash drive included … Read more