While Onkyo has launched an upscaling DVD player as well as an ill-fated
Though HD DVD player, it has only just jumped onto the Blu-ray bandwagon.
Suggestions that it would launch a standalone Blu-ray player in late 2008 have proved true, as it reveals the DV-BD606.
For a reasonably high-end player (around £400), the omission of BD-Live (Profile 2.0) features may disappoint, though if interactivity isn't a primary reason for getting Blu-ray (which, let's face it, at present it's not) then the other specs more than make up for that.
Full HDMI 1.3a compatibility for support of Deep Colour, 1080p/24fps, Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio including delivery of pure data bitstream, BonusView for picture-in-picture capability, upscaling of standard definition content, 150 MHz/12-Bit Video DAC and 192 kHz/24-Bit Audio DAC.
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