Evening all, I have just ordered the following from Superfi for £299, not seen many reviews of this player but price seemed to good to miss out, does anyone have this player and and if so how is it?.
I don't have the player myself, mine is an E1 so cannot comment on how good it is; However the EP10 is a newer model and maybe better if so you will be delighted as my E1 is splendid.
You got a cracking price on it too going by what I have seen on the web elsewhere. well done
The only reason I sold my E1 is that I require 1080p/24 output - which this will shortly have. I'll probably wait to see what the 3rd Gen machines offer as I'd pay more for one of them for the following reasons:
If they offered onboard DTS-MA decoding. It appears they don't - and I don't care about bitstreaming it out as my amp doesn't decode it either. TBH none of my HD-DVD's have a DTS-MA soundtrack and I don't expect the major studios to bother with it much on HD-DVD, although I know a few European studios have annoyingly gone down this route.
If they were operationally considerably quicker. The E1 wasn't problematically slow, but faster would be nicer. I get the impression that they won't be much quicker, but time will tell.
The biggest issue is whether the 1080p/24 upgrade is implemented correctly. I want the signal to stay in progressive form through the whole path from disc to screen. I don't want any daft interlacing / deinterlacing steps like the players currently perform to get from 1080p/24 on disc to 1080p/60. I don't see why such a step would be necessary if it really is just passing it directly from the disc to the screen, but i want to be sure before I start splashing my cash!!