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Pioneer BDP-LX71 Blu-ray player

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HCC News Team - 6 April 2009 - 9:30am

The latest Blu-ray player from Pioneer is another inky black slice of high-def home cinema to match the brand’s Kuro plasma TVs. However, despite its size and premium styling, this isn’t the flagship model and controversially, it doesn’t even have an Ethernet port. Partly due to timing, but mainly because it was decided that BD Live simply wasn’t worth the compromise, Pioneer has pressed ahead with a high-quality playback machine promising outstanding picture and sound quality, onboard HD audio decoding, and full 7.1 channel outputs...

First published in Home Cinema Choice 163

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