The XE1 finally arrived and I finally got around to hooking it up.

Quick observations - the RS232 control set is different to the XA1 so I cannot simply hot-swap the players without loss of control.

The XE1 doesn't support YCrCb from the Lumagen so one is forced to use DVI RGB. I didn't explore BTB/WTW issues.

Boot-up time was 45 seconds - which is a little quicker than the XA1.

Disc start time was about 20 secs - which again is quicker.

Conclusion: I'll stick with the XA1 in my cinema for now and put the XE1 under my 1080 LCD panel for use as a DVD player.

Disappointing.

Mark

My Music : My Cinema