Pioneer BDP-51FD - Manual (Page 5)

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Pioneer BDP-09FD Elite Blu-ray Player (Benchmark) - Page 5
as well as solid Blu-ray playback. That isn’t
true of the BDP-09FD however. On our de-
interlacing tests the BDP-09FD passed most
of the tests with flying colors and only showed
some hiccups on material that is encoded
with bad edits or incorrect progressive flags.
Hopefully Pioneer will address these issues in
a future firmware update.
On video based material the BDP-09FD had
excellent performance. The player is motion
adaptive and has excellent recovery time
switching back and forth between film and
video modes with minimal delay. The player
had superb playback of high detail material
as tested in our Super Speedway clip and
also showed impeccable performance on the
more difficult Coliseum flyover scene from
Gladiator.
The only area the BDP-09FD didn’t shine
was in the usability section of our benchmark.
The player only had average performance
when it comes to response, and clocked in
at a good but not great 1.1 seconds for layer
changes.
audIo PerForMance (on the Bench)
Distortion measurements were made within
an 80 kHz bandwidth.
At 1 kHz, recorded at - 5 dB, THD+N was
only 0.007%.
IMD was also very low, at 0.009%.
The frequency response was flat at 20 Hz and
down 0.2 dB at 20 kHz.
Overall, the Pioneer BDP-09FD shows
reference quality audio performance.
conclusIons
The Pioneer BDP-09FD is a player that aims
to be reference quality, and performs exactly
that way on the bench with solid standard
DVD, and Blu-ray playback, and reference
quality analog audio performance. The menu
system that is included is excellent and movie
playback was perfect for both audio and
video. I would be quite fine to have it as my
only CD transport as well. By adding support
for BD Live and DTS-MA, the BDP-09FD
is no longer missing any features that I feel I
would need to enjoy Blu-ray movies. There
are certain features that could be improved
upon such as the remote control, load times,
a fix for Pure Audio when watching movies,
and FLAC streaming from DNLA; however
none of these affect the experience once the
movie has started. In addition, this player
is impeccably built and looks fantastic. It
might not be priced for everyone, but there
are many people with reference quality audio
systems that don’t have HDMI inputs and
need the high end analog outputs, or need
dual HDMI connections, or just want the
best built player out there. The BDP-09FD
delivers in spades and should probably be on
the very top of your short list.
Specifications:
Design: Blu-ray Player
Supported Formats: BD-Rom, DVD-ROM, DVD-R
DVD+R, CD, CD-R/RW.
Codecs: Dolby Digital Plus, Dolby TrueHD, DTS-
HD Master Audio (Internal as well as Bitstream)
Supported Video Resolutions from HDMI: 480i,
480p, 1080i, 1080p60, 1080p24
Dimensions: 5.9” H x 16.5” W x 14.2” D
Weight: 30.5 Pounds
MSRP: $2,200 USA
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