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"Great price for the number of features" on by Sanford12
Pros: Sounds excellent and versatile even plays DVD+Rs
Cons: looks a little cheesey
Summary: For the money you can't beat this DVD player.
I couldn't believe that it would sound better than my Pioneer DV-414 but it does and if your ready to make the leap to SACD they will blow you away. They are that much better than a normal CD. -
"Pioneer perfection" on by con219
Pros: Plays everthing, looks and sounds great. Easy setup and user friendly user manual
Cons: none other than I am watching and listening to all my DVD and CD collection again. I need to sleep
Summary: have recently upgraded my Pioneer Reciever
to an vsx ax4 avi( it is the Elite VSX-74txvi in the US) and I was running a Pananasic dvd s-27 player.
I upgraded this to the dv 686-a-s (which is the dv -588-s in the US).
Man did I get a huge surprise.
I put on the movie "Stealth" (which I use as a reference when I tweek my surround settings on my receiver.)
The sound coming out of my Accusound Delta's blew me away. It was simply awesome.
The sound was very crisp as if you were there.and the "fly over" scenes nearly had me ducking.
I couldn't believe the difference in quality
when comparing it to the Panasonic DvD player I was using before.
The sound was at par with my friends very expensive Denon DVD setup. He actually commented that it even sounded better than his system. (He has a Denon 3806 a/v receiver)
I then put on PinK Floyds Darkside of the Moon SACD in 5.1 ch. Man I was gob smacked.
The clarity of the sound coming from the instruments was as if you were there.
I have newver heard music like that before.
I recommend this DVD player to everyone. I guarantee you will not be dissapointed.
Good Work Pioneer.
PS.. I was originally in the market for a DVD upscaler.
I was so close in purchasing the Sony DVP-Ns92v however after trialing it by viewing an upscaled movie on my Hitachi PJtx100 High Definition Projector I could not see any significant improvement of the Picture I was getting with the Panasonic- so take it from me don't waste your money) -
"Great price point, excellent sound and video quality" on by cineaste
Pros: Plays most recorded formats, and plays both SACD and DVD-Audio
Cons: Doesn't play DVD RAM format
Summary: i get a lot of burnt DVDs from friends and fellow filmmakers and this machine usually makes up for the poor quality of their DVD mastering skills. This Pioneer is quite capable of playing DVDs that my other machines cannot. The fact that it plays DIVX is an added bonus. I mainly bought this unit though for its audio capabilities since it is one of the few machine in its price range to that plays both SACD and DVD-Audio.
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"Great Product" on by Vaggos
Pros: Bang for the Buck!
Cons: None, especially for the price you pay!
Summary: Great product for what you pay. Nice sleek look, reads Windows Media, DivX, MP3's and has great sound and picture options.
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"nice player for dvd divx and svcd and cds incuding mp3 and dvd mp3 disks" on by magnusfl
Pros: great picture and sound plays divx flawlesly
Cons: s-vido out put is the best no HDMI and also discontinuued
Summary: a great player and I own 2 and love them hwever when I tryed to get one for my girlfriend I found they discountuned it with out comeing out with a replacment here in the usa however in europe you luckey as the upgraded model has HDMI and is divx ultra certifyed it model DV696-AV
Pioneer DV-588A user reviews
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