Pioneer BDP-320 1080p Blu-ray Disc Player

Pioneer’s BDP-320 Pioneer BD-Live Blu-ray Disc Player, featuring 48-bit deep color and 7.1-ch analog outputs, is built for entertainment junkies who seek cinematic-quality performance along with a premium and unique user experience. Pioneer’s players combine supreme features, sophisticated internal construction with a rigid chassis design ensuring the highest quality playback of Blu-ray Disc, DVD and CD entertainment. The BDP-320 is also outfitted with built-in memory to deliver on the promise of BD-Live right out of the box.

Immediate BD-Live Enjoyment
BD-Live is the interactive component of the Blu-ray Disc format that gives home audiences the innovative opportunity to download and enjoy bonus trailers and movie features, participate in online gaming as well as synchronize viewing, chat live and video message with other BD-Live players. Providing immediate enjoyment of these exciting entertainment capabilities, the BDP-320 has one GB of internal on-board memory, eliminating the need for consumers to purchase additional memory for basic operation of BD-Live. An integrated USB port allows connection to flash drives as well as hard drives for additional BD-Live storage. An Ethernet connection port lets owners seamlessly upgrade their player with the latest firmware updates as soon as they are available online.

Premier Picture and Sound Quality
The new the BDP-320 combines a state-of-the-art chip set and video processing solutions with Pioneer’s 1080p True24FPS (frame per second) feature to deliver detailed, natural imagery that is unmatched by other players.
Recognizing that high end home theater is as much about sound presentation as on-screen images, the BDP-320 fully supports new high resolution audio formats, and also provides Dolby TrueHD, DTS-HD bitstream output, and 7.1-channel analog output (for compatibility with non HDMI equipped receivers and preamps).

Premium Convenience Features
Pioneer’s BDP-320 provides functional advantages when used in conjunction with Pioneer’s Elite A/V receivers and KURO displays. KURO Link is an exclusive synergy feature that allows users to easily maneuver between connected Pioneer products with just a single remote control. By connecting the BDP-320 to a Pioneer KURO flat panel TV or monitor and a compatible Pioneer A/V receiver, KURO LINK lets you operate the entire system’s basic functions such as power on/off and playback through KURO’s remote control. The new KURO Link Video Adjustment System automatically switches to optimal video settings adjusted by unique parameters developed by Pioneer KURO and Blu-ray Disc player engineers. The BDP-320 also delivers significantly reduced power on, disc load, and power off times.

Customizable Viewing Experience
For those updating a home theater system, the Pioneer BDP-320 features sleek, slim form factors and gives consumers the confidence that comes with a heralded 30-year leadership in optical disc innovations. The Pioneer BDP-320 also gives cinephiles a series of picture adjustment features for an optimum customized entertainment experience including:

• New–KURO Link Auto Picture Adjust: By connecting the BDP-320 to a Pioneer KURO flat panel TV or monitor and a compatible Pioneer A/V receiver, KURO Link lets you operate the entire system’s basic functions such as power on/off and playback through KURO’s remote control. The new KURO LINK Video Adjustment System automatically switches to video settings best suited for the connected KURO.
• New–Simultaneous Video Outputs: Watch your Blu-ray disc movies while watching the bonus features at the same time (Picture-in-Picture).
• 48-Bit Deep Color Support: By improving subtle color gradations, this feature produces an unprecedented level of hues and shades that ensure a vibrant viewing experience
• Spectacular 1080p Picture Quality: The BDP-320 provides up to 1920×1080p resolution for unrivaled picture quality. And with True 24fps, you can now see your movies as the director intended.
• x.v.Color: An advanced feature which greatly broadens the color space input to include 1.8 times as many natural colors than standard RGB signals.
• HDMI Precision Quartz Lock System (PQLS) Jitterless Transmission (2-ch):
  By HDMI connection with a compatible Pioneer A/V receiver, CD music is precisely reproduced with minimum jitter.
• Picture Control Suite: Users can tweak 13 video adjustments to create a finely tuned image, delivering on the promise of stunning HD picture quality
• Noise Reduction Circuits: Offering three different adjustments, the enhanced circuitry significantly updates the image quality of lower-quality DVD content
• Internal Audio Decoders: The BDP-320 features internal decoding of all advanced audio formats including Dolby Digital Plus, Dolby TrueHD, DTS-HD High Resolution, and DTS-HD Master Audio.
• BD-Live Compliant (Profile 2.0): Enjoy special disc contents in Picture-in-Picture form, and also download additional content from the internet to the built-in 1GB memory, such as the director’s interview and languages not contained on the disc. Note: BD-Live only available on compatible discs and playable features depend on the disc contents.
• Triple High-Definition NR: Component Frame NR lowers Gaussian noise without blurring the picture while Block NR minimizes block noise (mosaic-like artifacts) and Mosquito NR reduces the fluttery noise around the edges of objects.
• Picture Control Suite: 13 different video adjustments (Progressive Motion, PureCinema, YNR, CNR, BNR, MNR, Detail, White Level, Black Level, Black Setup, Gamma Correction, Hue, and Chroma Level)
• Multi-Format Compatibility: You can play high definition DVD discs recorded by digital video cameras in AVCHD format. You can also play BD-R/RE, DVD-R/RW, etc. recorded using Blu-ray Disc recorders or DVD recorders as well as CD/CD-R.

What’s in the box
Pioneer’s BDP-320 Pioneer BD-Live Blu-ray Disc Player, remote control, power cord, instruction manual, set up guide

Pioneer BDP-320 1080p Blu-ray Disc Player Review

I have a BDP-320 hooked up to a Kuro PDP-5020FD. Set-up was very quick with most settings being automatic between the two Pioneer devices. The only manual setting change I had to make to the BDP-320 was to set the output to Source Direct.

The 320’s deinterlacing was inferior to the Kuro. I used Hot Fuzz as a test DVD and the 320 produced noticeable jagged edges on the white Metropolitan Police logo on the character’s black vest. Changing to Source Direct cleared up any artifacts and made for the best DVD picture on my Kuro yet. On some other DVD material (LOTR) I found the best image to be when the BDP-320 is upconverting and the PDP-5020FD is deinterlacing. Either way the BDP-320 gives you all the flexability you need to get the best possible picture from your setup.

The sound quality of BD using the optical digital out is noticeably improved over DVD. There is greater definition in the low frequency and it seems that sound placement is more well defined. These are subjective observations, but I was surprised to notice a difference. This makes me more likely to upgrade my receiver to a newer model that can handle the losseless audio formats over HDMI.

Although the BDP-320 is my first BDP, from what I can tell it is not a big improvement to Pioneers previous model the BDP-51FD. Owners of both claim the load times, picture quality, sound quality and DVD layer change response are nearly identical. The improvements of the BDP-320 are a reduced chassis height, increase ROM size (good for the firmware engineers at Pioneer so good for you to), out-of-the-box support for DTS HD MA, great BD compatibility, and built-in BD-Live with included 1GB memory and LAN. I hope that the BDP-320’s larger ROM will allow future firmware updates to push its perfomance past the BDP-51FD.

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