Pioneer Belts Out Another Blu-ray Player

Pioneer has introduced a new Blu-ray disc player, the BDP-LX70A, which will supersede its BDP-LX70 model released earlier this year. The player will be commercially available throughout Europe in October.

The new player features bitstream output for both Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio High definition audio codecs. A part of Pioneer’s LX Series of high-end products, the BDP-LX70A guarantees true High Def from start to finish, from source to screen.

The LX70A gets the best out of high definition media. It delivers what Pioneer calls 'master quality' – audio and video exactly as the film-makers intended, perfectly played back at 1080p and 24Hz. That is, at exactly the same speed and using the same 24 frames per second as the film was shot, stored and mastered. As such, the player will be promoted with Pioneer’s "HD Digital Film Direct – 24 Frames Per Second" compliancy logo.

The BDP-LX70A supports streaming of compressed audio, movie and image files across a home IP network. It is DNLA-compatible (by ethernet), which means that content such as MPEG and WMA movie files, MP3, WMA and WAV music files and JPEG, PNG and GIF image files can be transferred from a home PC to the player.

For users without a home network the BDP-LX70A’s Disc Navigator function enables playback from DVD discs of the same content formats as via its network feature.