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Universal Players: Video Quality?

I already have my 2 channel front end set up. What I am considering is upgrading my DVD player (old Camelot Tech, quite good by the way) with an universal player. This sits in a different room, home theatre set up Of course sound quality is important yes as I also want to experiment with mutli-channel music (though I am not convinced) but superior video quality is must as I use it for mostly watching DVDs. When I read reviews in audio mags they really don't comment on video quality at all, and when they do they compare it their brethen not the leading say Sony players (which of couse may suffer in audio quality). So in a long round about question, which universal players have superior video while maintaining audio quality? Esoteric vs Linn vs Bel Cant PL-1? Sim Audio?
henryhk

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rmetaxas
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Good stuff on this post. I too use an older Camelot Tech, Roundtable MKIII for both DVD and CD playback in my media room. CD audio sounds awesome, with no outboard DAC inline, and the video quality, running component as Roundtable lacks DVI/HDMI outputs, is very solid, detailed and filmlike. My display is a front projector single chip DLP with Faroudja processing 720p native res. I have a separate stereo system in another room with Camelot Morganna used as Transport with a BelCanto DAC inline. I don't listen to much music in my theater room until I get one that can play DVD-Audio and SACD. My concern is getting into an HDMI player to tide me over until HD DVD/ BlueRay shakes down. I'd heard the Denon 2910-3910 are nice inexpensive options. And what about a current model ARCAM Universal player with DVI/HDMI outs? Also reasonable and very well-reviewed?? Anyone seen it?

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Thanks,
Bob
rmetaxas
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Do you think SACD has a future or is it going by the wayside. I've only bought a few matrixed audio DVDs, my car has a 7.1 system in it. It's a Bose so it's not good sounding but I like the redention. That's what making me interested in Audio matrix decoding in a new DVD player.
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