Marantz BD8002 Blu-ray Player

Marantz has just released its flagship Blu-ray player known as the BD8002, and touts it to be the “ultimate-quality, reference standard High Definition source component”. No idea on whether we want to test out that claim by forking out £1,799 for it, as it features the following :-

• Full HD resolution at 1080p
• 24 frames per second
• Dolby Digital Plus, Dolby True HD and DTS-HD Master Audio decoding
• DVD upscaling
• HDMI 1.3a
• 12-bit/297MHz video chipset
• 10-bit Silicon Optix Realta processor
• SD memory card slot
• Supports VCDs, SVCDs, MP3s, WMA and DivX video files, display JPEG images

Unfortunately, it offers only Profile 1.1, and at £1,799, we think that there are much better propositions lying around.