575a or 585a?

What's the difference? I'm guessing the 585a is newer, but newer isn't always better.

I've heard so many good things about the 575a, I was going to buy it, but U've seen 585a on sale so I thought I'd check that this is the same basic player, only a newer and improved model. Can anyone confirm?

 

I should add, I read somewhere that the 585 supports dual layer discs, and the 575 doesn't. If that's true, can the 575 be tweaked to get it to play dual layer discs? Like updating its firmware or something?

And does anyone know if there's any difference between 575 and 575a? Does the 'a' matter?

 

With the latest firmware 575 does support dual layer.

 

Actuallly, I think the DV-575A has always managed to play DL discs
even though it hasn't been specificied anywhere.

 

The pioneer 575 plays dual layer disks, however, i belive the bitsetting type must be set to DVD-ROM when burning it, rather then DVD+R.

Not sure if the Pioneer will read DVD-R DL as this is very new.... not had the chance to try one yet.

 

I don't burn my own discs. All I watch on my DVD player are movies and TV shows that I got from the shops. So is this dual layer problem likely to be an issue for me?

 

Nope, brought originals will work fine on both players.

 

including dual layer discs that I buy from a shop..?