Pioneer DVD Players
Pioneer has made home entertainment cinema extremely attractive and practical by combining the cutting edge technology with sophisticated design. You are transported to another world of fun and entertainment when you use Pioneer products. The razor sharp images and intense colors to its surround sound effects are simply amazing. You can choose from a wide variety of options ranging from the latest DVD-A/DVD-V/SACD machines to portable DVD players.
One of Pioneer’s most famous models is Pioneer BDP-HD1 Blu-ray Disc Player which was introduced in the US by the Pioneer Company. As the name indicates Pioneer, uses the blue ray format which is one of the two high definition DVD formats available in the market. The system uses blue laser and video compression technology, as opposed to the standard DVD technology that uses red laser technology, to obtain high definition video playback on the same disc as the standard DVD. The blue ray format uses the true high definition, 1080i. 1080p playback for new blue ray discs.
The Pioneer BDP-HD1 plays Blu-ray discs, standard DVD-Video, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R, and DVD+RW discs. The player features two formats, one is surround sound and the other is for processing two channel audio effects. The audio connection options provided on the DVD player allow it to be integrated with a variety of home theater and stereo only set ups.
All the video and audio output connections except for the Digital output connections are plated in gold.
The Pioneer BDP-HDI has easy control options, via wireless remote control and onscreen menus. The parameters of control are aspect ratio, 720p/1080i/1080p output selection, resume play and other disc navigation functions such as subtitles, audio preferences, and interactive menu selections and so on. Besides this the player can also be controlled via the Pioneer system terminal. You can easily integrate several Pioneer home theater products by using just one remote control.
The BDP-HDI model is equipped with networking functions via LAN or Ethernet connection which facilitate streaming of photos, downloading video content from the cds or from the internet via your computer or from the television.
The Pioneer BDP-HD1 like Toshiba products is backwards compatible with the standard DVDs and also with recordable DVD formats.
You can access high definition content via the HDMI output, but that depends upon the capability of the disc to encode high definition output.
