DVD Players

• $739
• Digital Video Output: HDMI and DVI
• Video Upconversion: 720p and 1080i
• Audio Decoding: DD, DTS, DVD-Audio, SACD, HDCD, MP3, WMA
• Ins and Outs: HDMI, DVI, component, composite and S-Video, coaxial and Toslink digital audio, two-channel and 5.1-channel analog audio
• Feature Highlights: Universal player with HDMI and DVI outputs, Faroudja deinterlacing w/DCDi, 12-bit/216MHz video DACs, full bass management with delays for all formats except SACD

The Skinny: Denon's DVD-2910 is such a killer at its price that it makes life real hard for the more expensive mass-market flagship players, even Denon's own. It's superb with all formats, audio and video, and it has both HDMI and DVI outputs with upconversion and Faroudja's vaunted deinterlacing. Unlike a lot of mass-market players this one also excels with CD playback, and most of us have at least a few of those. So compelling is this player's performance that in our opinion you need to step up to the high-end players at $3K and above to get performance that's a definitive, if incremental cut above. The DVD-2910 is a lot of player for the money, with both audio and video.