Pioneer DV-LX50 DVD Player Reviews

+ excellent upscaled picutre and sound for the money. good design aesthetics. Quiet

- sometimes slow to start disc, disc menu functiions do not work until disc into its main menu. Have an older pioneer with same problem? feature.

+ Plays DVD Audio and SACD better than ony other hybrid DVD player I have previously had and the image quality is superb getting ever closer to Blu-Ray from normal DVD.

- Had to adjust the picture through the HDMI cable as it was too dark - used THX calibrator to do this and now works fine.

+ Who needs hi-def when you have this!!!!!! I have the player connected to a sanyo z3 projector the picture is 6 ft wide, the quality is fantastic. Even tv shows like 24 look fantastic!!!!! Dvd's are so cheep now its well worth sticking with them if you have this player.

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+ 1080P upscaling, great picture quality, multi region, divx & xvid compatible

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+ Excellent picture upscaling to 1080p! No discernible "jaggies" visible.
Sound formats on SACD and DVD-A are output over HDMI, reducing the need for cables in a home cinema set-up. The user manual is well written and clear - how many times can you say that? This DVD player merits the excellent reviews it has gained in the home cinema press.

- Some people may find the user set up menus a little complicated if they want to further enhance picture and/or sound output settings. If you're familiar with making such tweaks, then this should not be a problem for you.

+ High quality picture and sound. Compatable with SACD, DVD- Audio and Dual Disc. It even plays the advanced audio options on my Dual Discs even though the manual says it won't. Can't guarantee it will do the same with them all but I was gald it worked on mine.

- None that I've come accross yet.

+ Easy to set up and use.
Great picture and almost as good sound
One of the best decks around no matter what price.

- Does'nt have DolbyTrue and DTS-HD decoders built in (Which no standard DVD player has) Is'nt the smallest pklayer around

+ Picture stability and image quality better than any other player at this price.
Cinema sound dynamics.

- CD quality not quite as good as a compatibly priced stand alone CD player but fair to say, most surround sound speaker systems are not a match for performance stereo speakers.

+ Excellent value for money. Looks good.

- I've seen better picture quality - but it is still a cut above the average.

+ its just amazing in my book.

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+ Great picture - well worth the extra over the budget upscalers I've got.

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+ picture quality very crisp and clear

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+ Stylish looks, great picture quality, awesome sound, well built

- very complicated picture set up options

+ A good machine if you are using it on a 42" LCD or Plasma or smaller set. Plays nearly every disc going.

- The DVLX50 was reviewed as being the best player Pioneer have ever produced. The machine admittedly squeezes a lot from a standard dvd, however the picture when played through my Infocus IN82 onto a screen 7 feet across is so full of pixels that you spend more time looking at the flaws than you do the image itself. Will Smiths' face in the first few minutes of 'Pursuit Of Happiness' looks like lego bricks in certain scenes. The player is perhaps too good and shows every defect in a poor quality transfer. Consequently most images are inferior as a result. In a trade magazine somebody once wrote "upscaling is no good if you are magnifying the mistakes". Even on 760p scaling the image is not good on this machine. Having used several Pioneer machines over the years this is certainly not the best by miles. My Harmon Kardon DV37 knocks spots of this and was half the price.

+ Beautifully styled in gloss black with blue lights
Superb SACD replay and multichannel outputs
Great for upscaling DVDs

- Settings menu not always intuitive
Picture output just occasionally a bit line-y