Denon DVD-1800BD Blu-Ray/CD Player

This is the most affordable Blu-ray player available from Denon. BD profile 1.1, picture in picture support via secondary video and audio circuitry, standard DVD processing and scaling up to 1080p. 3:2/2:2 pull down. HDMI 1.3a output with deep color support. DivX ver. 6 support. 1080p/24pfs output capable. SD Card slot for downloaded web content, bit stream bypass for Dolby TrueHD and dts-HD output.Capable of CR-R/RW and DVD-R/RW. @ channel analog output features Burr-Brown DACs.

Combining high performance and affordability, the DVD-1800BD player is equipped with the latest technologies to extract the maximum video and audio quality from your Blu-ray, DVD and CD discs, and features support for the latest generation high resolution audio formats, including Dolby TrueHD and Dolby Digital Plus as well as DTS-HD Master Audio soundtracks.

For optimum picture quality, the DVD-1800BD also provides a suite of picture adjustment controls that includes brightness and contrast, along with color and sharpness adjustments, and a gamma control for superior deep black and dark gray performance.

A growing number of Blu-ray releases include Bonus View picture-in-picture features, which the DVD-1800BD supports.

For DVD viewing, the player features precision deinterlacing and upconversion, allowing up to 1080p high resolution via HDMI.

For home-made videos on DVD and CD, the DVD-1800BD supports the latest Divx Version 6 codec, and the DVD-1800BD also features a front panel SD card slot for playback of WMA and MP3 music files as well as JPG picture files.

For optimum audio fidelity, the DVD-1800BD also features Denon’s Pure Direct mode.

Denon DVD-1800BD Blu-Ray/CD Player Review

This is one awesome Blu-Ray player. It plays everything we’ve thrown at it so far.. even our home-produced DVD+R/-R videos (which the manual does not indicate it could even play)! It is also great to be able to play my .MP3 music files and .JPG slideshows from SD cards! However, just two little quirks have held me back from giving it 5 stars:

Denon really needs to either put more useful buttons on their remote, and/or make the menus easier to access, and/or make switching to/from SD cards and Discs easier. For example, after you play a DVD, if you want to play a photo slideshow from your SD memory card, you have to go into menu after submenu to switch playing modes from “Disc” to “SD card”. How ridiculous is that!!!?? It gets me mad every time I have to do it. Why not just have this in the top menu, or put a button on the remote for that? OR, BETTER YET — why not have the player DETECT if a card or disc is inserted and automatically switch to that mode!!!!! Puuuulllleeeeeaaaaze, I have an inexpensive VR3 car stereo that can do that! It will switch to disc or SD card, whichever you insert last. Now come on, why can’t Denon do that??

Also, for photo slideshows, you have to search somewhere in the menus to find the setting for how long a pause you want between photos. And, there is no option for “None”, or even a very long pause. It gives you either “5 sec.” or “10 sec”. Again, how ridiculous? When we had guests over recently, we wanted to be able to narrate each slide and then jump to the next, but we had to keep pressing the back button to go back after it jumped to the next one after 10 secs.

Ok, well I’ve vented long enough I guess. But they are the only 2 things we are unhappy about with it, especially since it is a high-end expensive player. Otherwise, the player is completely awesome — has a nice sleek look, plays well, upscales nicely, doesn’t take a very long time to load, and runs fairly quietly (although we do have it inside a closed cabinet). We have ours hooked up via HDMI cable, and the video and audio are great. No complaints there. We looked at literally EVERY brand of Blu-Ray player to find one that also has an SD card player, and at the time, this is it baby! I would say it is a worthwhile purchase.

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