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component, that I have had the opportunity

to use. Weighing over 30 lbs, the BDP-09FD

is constructed with gold plated outputs,

a solid steel base plate, internal crossbar

supports, and separate power supplies for the

audio and video sections of the player. e

player also features a Blu-ray recorder drive

mechanism, which has stricter tolerances

than the standard Blu-ray drive mechanism,

and a very attractive glossy ﬁnish that made

getting a photograph without my reﬂection

for this review a challenge, but didn’t distract

when it was in my AV rack.

e back panel of the Pioneer features a full

complement of outputs, notably including

dual HDMI outputs, allowing you to run

one to your display and one to a receiver/

processor, or one to a projector and one to

another display or your receiver/processor.

I hooked them up in the display/receiver

setup to make sure that nothing would cause

any loss of quality in the video section, while

still allowing me to send all the audio over

HDMI.

However, sending audio over HDMI from

this player would negate one of the major

advantages of it: a full complement of 8

Wolfson 8740 DACs operating in Dual

mode, one of every channel, which allows

you to control all of the audio settings in the

player: Speaker distances, size and crossover,

and level adjustment while using the high

quality DAC’s which are used in Pioneer’s

Elite SC-05 and SC-07 receivers, as well as

many other high end audio products. Since

the Pioneer can internally decode all of the

new audio formats (Dolby TrueHD, DTS

Master Audio) and perform all of these

speaker level adjustments over the multi-

channel outputs, and has higher quality

DACs than most receivers and processors, I

did most of my evaluation using the analog

audio connections instead of the single

HDMI cable, but the HDMI outputs were

tested for audio as well.

Additional features found on the BDP-

09FD are an Ethernet jack for BD Live

capability and ﬁrmware updates, a feature

that was sorely missing on the BDP-51FD

that I recently reviewed. Unfortunately,

while their previous Elite Blu-ray players

could use the Ethernet port to play media

from DLNA servers on your home network,

the new Renesis chipset that Pioneer is using

for this player lacks that feature and so the

Ethernet port can only be used for BD

Live and Firmware updates. Also included

are Composite, S-Video and Component

outputs for video (since I wondered about

this, Pioneer assured me that keeping legacy

Composite and S-Video jacks on the panel

doesn’t aﬀect the design in any negative way,

since those capabilities are built into the

chipset they use for the player), and Coaxial

and Optical outputs for audio.

For BD Live support, the BDP-09FD

features 4 GB of memory on the board in

the form of an SD HC card for downloaded

content. As most movies typically only

require around 4 MB of space, you should

be able to hold the downloadable content

for close to 1,000 discs before you run out

of room. I was unable to test what happens

if you ﬁll this memory up but was told that

you would need to manually delete data to

make room from the Setup menu, which

unfortunately required you to delete all

of the movie information in memory, not

individual titles as the PS3 allows you to

do. is means if you do manage to ﬁll this

memory up in the future, you would have

to completely empty it out before you could

access the content of a new disc, so hopefully

they will allow you to delete individual titles

from memory in the future.

“The Pioneer also did a good job of

standard DVD playback.”

One ﬁnal feature that I was unable to test,

but was very interested in, was Pioneer’s

Precision Quartz Lock System for playing

audio CD’s. If you have a compatible

Pioneer receiver (the SC-05 and SC-07 both

work) and have the player connected over

HDMI, for CD playback the machine will

use the higher quality clock signal inside

of the receiver instead of the poorer quality

video clock inside of the BDP-09FD. is

works to eliminate jitter from the disc to the

point that Pioneer can claim that the signal

is actually jitter free, which should produce

an audible increase in audio quality. Pioneer

has also said that this is an open standard

that other manufacturers are welcome to

adopt in the future, and in the future they

plan to support this jitter reduction for

video playback as well with new products, so

hopefully this feature will become something

that other manufacturers adopt.

SETUP

My previous Blu-ray player had reminded

me how wonderful it was to setup new

components now that HDMI is a standard.

I simply removed my current DVD player,

inserted the new BluRay player, attached a

single HDMI cable and power cord, and

everything was working. With the BDP-

09FD I had a lot more work to do in able

to get all of the extra performance out of it,

hooking up 5.1 analog outputs, dual HDMI

outputs (one straight to my display, and one

to my receiver for bitstreaming audio), and

an Ethernet cable.

Pioneer has built a nice setup menu that

guides you though the conﬁguration of

the BDP-09FD in order and will grey out

selections that don’t matter for your setup

based on previous selections. After choosing

a 16x9 aspect ratio, I decided to go with

multichannel analog outputs, which opened

up another list of choices for me. First

choosing which speakers I had hooked up,

whether they were large or small, and what

crossover I would prefer for routing bass to

the subwoofer (unfortunately a single global

crossover and not an individual channel

selection), then onto how far each speaker

was from my primary listening location,

down to inches and not the more typical

half foot increments, and ﬁnally individual

channel level settings. As many receivers

and processors will bypass all internal

crossover and level settings when you use

a multichannel input, it’s very important

that Pioneer builds this functionality

into the player for those that will use the

multichannel outputs.

Next I’d conﬁgure my video settings,

including what I wanted to do with my

secondary HDMI output, if I had support

for Deep Color or Control over HDMI,

which Color Space I wanted to use for

output, and some additional options for if I

was using a Kuro display or Pioneer receiver.

Finally, one nice option that Pioneer has is

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