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Don't get excited. I'm just thinking out loud. If you were going to put together the ultimate home theater/surround sound system you would go with:

800
808.2
861
DSP8000 (7)
MP810 projector and processor

What's missing? A Blu-ray player. How in the world can you offer the world's best system and then put a $400 Pananonic BD55K in it? At the very least you are going to need a G-series Blu-ray player to match the 861/808.2. Is it that the M810 projector and processor can turn an SD-DVD into a Blu-ray equivalent? Meridian must know this, and I think we would be selling them short to think otherwise. I can't believe they won't offer one. I'm not counting on an announcement (much less a prototype) at CES, but surely by Q1 2010.

Not that I could afford any of it, but if you are going to claim (and be) the world's best, how could you possibly not offer one?

Frank; We dont get excited here... do we?

But you do make a very good point.

Cheers, Chris

The Oppo BDP-83 will be the one to beat. Yes, it will be beaten, but perhaps only in audio terms and, then, it might be close. I expect the Oppo to equal any Meridian offering in perceptable video quality and to beat the Meridian in terms of usability (unless Meridian really ups its game in this latter area).

The problem for Meridian is that HDMI, though far from perfect, opens up the Meridian architecture to 3rd party sources.

From my perspective the 808.2 is an anacronism in a modern system once the Meridian processors and all the 96/24 speakers get the apodizing upsampling filter. Perfectly ripped CDs on a music server? That's me...

Finally, I'm sure the M810 is good, but I'd need to see it to be convinced. I'm particularly interested in how clean the upscaling algorithm is. I'm also interested to know what the M810's video processor will do with all the non-1080p24 sources (the catalog is King, remember ). Would I need to stick a Lumagen Radiance in front of it?

Me too, but a lot of the people who can afford a complete Meridian audio/video solution are probably not the rip CDs to server type.

A Meridan Blu-ray player could take the place of the 800/808.2 for CD/SD-DVD/Blu-ray. Presumable it would be able to output 480i to the M810 video processor.

Only the non-geeky ones.

Mark

Now here's the catch... Does the Meridian M810 processor do inverse 3:2 pulldown and genlock to achieve a smooth (large)p24 output? That is the level of the bar these days.

VK:

I was looking at the front panel of the Oppo Blu-ray and noticed it lacked the DVD-Audio logo.

That could be a big "no sale" for me.

AFAIK, the inclusion of DVD-A is possible but not probable.

Kal

Kal:

I was really hoping to get down to 2 disc spinners. I might have to have three; but I'd rather not.

Of course if HTPC gets audio out via HDMI sorted out that could be my best solution.

Best,

Yep. I pointed this out to Oppo as a "required" feature for me when I registered for information on their web site.

+1

~M~

Well that makes three of us on the planet.