What good is a love affair without..? Denon DVD-1920

A Home theater of course needs a decent CD/DVD player.
Since HD-DVD and BlueRay is coming within a year or two, I went for a cheaper one, the Denon DVD-1920. It sets you back about €300 and fits perfectly with the Denon AVR 3806 receiver. Main purchase incitament was, again, the HDMI output. This baby also plays back Super Audio CD, which has more than 60 times higher sampling frequency!

This was the cheapest model in the Denon range that featured HDMI. It is good in more ways then just getting an all through digital signal. It also reduces the amount of cables that has to be connected to the projector, since HDMI (as opposed to DVI, which is otherwise compatible) includes audio.

Some specifications
* HDMI with HDCP Digital Video Output
* Component Video Output
* HDMI with Scaling from Silicon Image 480p/720p/1080i
* 216MHz/ 11bit high-end Video DAC
* 24-Bit, 192-kHz High Resolution Audio D/A Converters
* Progressive Scan
* Dolby Digital and DTS Output
* SACD Playback

i'm satisfied with this unit, I would of course love to watch both HDTV and HD-DVD, but a lot of technical obstacles effectively blocks this for the moment. Meanwhile, I can write a bit more about SACD. Its a format developed by Sony, mainly for music. As mentioned above, the sampling frequency is a mindboggling 60 times higher than your ordinary Audio-CD, 2.8 Megahertz, as opposed to 44 kilohertz. Some SACD come only in traditional stereo, and some come in surround sound. Many SACDs comes as hybrids, with both a regular CD-track, and a SACD-track, which means you can play them back in any regular CD-player as well. You can read more about SACD here, and there is also a lot of good information about SACD on Wikipedia.


Related Links:
www.sa-cd.net
SACD on Wikipedia