Denon’s beautiful Blu-rayer

Blu-ray DVD players may have won the high-definition wars almost a year ago, but we’re still waiting for the premium players to enter the market. It’s almost over though now, with purveyor of crystal sound and vision Denon finally making its Blu-ray debut with the DVD-3800BD, and it’ll keep home cinephiles content for years to come.Top HD performance is a given, thanks to video processing from Silicon Optix Realta and HQV under the bonnet, so you’ll be able to savour every single pixel. That goes for your DVD catalogue too, with the DVD-3800BD offering upscaling all the way to 1080p. It’ll cost you of course – a cool £1,600 – but visuals simply won’t get better than this.

Top talents

The hi-fi Blu-ray player
Decodes both Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio lossless surround sound formats. Sparkly.

Picture processing
Video technology from Optix Realta and HQV offers the highest HD visuals – just make sure you’ve got a good HDMI cable to go with.

Upscaler
Resuscitate your DVD library by boosting the resolution.

Going up against

Sony BDP-S350 – A solid mid-level offering from Blu-ray’s creator.

Sony PlayStation 3 – A Blu-ray player that’s also a next-gen console. Bargain!

Samsung BD-P1000 – One of the priciest premium players – until now.

Thinking about making the jump to Blu-ray? Find out all you need to know on the Pricerunner forum.

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