 Excellent Sound and Picture |
| Review Date: December 23, 2008 |
| Reviewer: Kayode Leonard, Harlem, NY |
| This is by far one of the best Blu ray players on the market. The picture is stunning and has a very cinematic, non-analytical image. This blows away the similar Sony 2000ES. As this is only a transport, it has no analog audio outputs, the sound is amazing when paired with a HD-format audio decoding receiver. This is definitely a great unit for the money. Get ready to be amazed. |
Perfect HT Blu-Ray/DVD Player
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| Review Date: April 13, 2009 |
| Reviewer: Dvisr, USA |
For my new dedicated home theater, I purchased the Denon AVR-4308CI, which is awesome. At the same time I purchased the Sony BDP-S550 to save a few bucks. Big mistake. Once everthing was hooked up, the Sony was sooo slow loading movies and I couldn't figure out how to get rid of the aggrevating BDlive menu every time I went to watch a movie. I realized I made a bad choice, it was taking away from the whole HT experience for me.
Well, Amazon offered the Denon DVD-2500BTCI FREE with purchase of Denon AV recievers shortly after I had ordered and recieved my AVR-4308CI . I figured it wouldn't hurt to ask them to consider my purchase for this offer. I didn't have my hopes too high, but Amazon has truly awesome customer support and they actually sent me this Denon Blu-Ray player for free. I gave the Sony to my son and hooked up the Denon, and WOW, what a difference! This thing loads very fast and the quality of the unit itself is great, not to mention it matches the look of my AV receiver perfectly. The quality of the audio and video even seem to be better than the Sony.
If you are looking at the Sony BDP-S550, and your gear is HDMI capable, do yourself a favor and spring for the extra bucks to get this Denon, you won't be sorry. |
Best Value I've Seen In A While
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| Review Date: August 21, 2009 |
| Reviewer: P. Montgomery, Southeast US |
When first introduced, MSRP for the DVD-2500BTCI was $1k. I liked it and would have paid that much for it eventually. But when it went on sale for $500, I just couldn't resist. Assuming Denon hasn't substituted cheaper parts somewhere along the way, the current sale prices of under $350 are almost like legalized shoplifting. This is my first Blu-Ray player so I don't have another to compare it to. But both picture and sound are outstanding. As long as you only need an HDMI output, and are patient at least in some regards, I can't recommend this unit enough. Observed Strengths & Weaknesses below.
STRENGTHS:
With just about every receiver, pre/pro, etc., out there already having an array of surround decoders, D/A converters, etc., I found it annoying that these were duplicated and charged for in just about all DVD/Blu-Ray players. Not so in the DVD-2500BTCI, which is why it is called a "transport" instead of a "player." You're only paying for what you need...no useless stuff that's duplicated elsewhere in a typical system.
Unit has a nice, high-end feel that rivals that of $2k pieces from anybody. Front panel buttons have a nice, positive feel, and the disc drawer is silken-smooth and nearly silent.
Detachable power cord
Can program it with a 2nd remote code so as not to interfere with other Denon units.
When you're at Chapter 10 or higher, there is now a space between the Chapter# and Time, instead of one big row of hard-to-read gobbledygook all run together, as on Denon's previous players.
Remote has a nice, quality feel in many ways.
WEAKNESSES
Response is sloooooooooooowwwwwwwwwww; Stop command during Blu-Ray disc playback sometimes took 30 seconds for player to acknowledge. This may be more a property of Blu-Ray players than of Denon specifically, but I am mentioning it anyway since responsiveness is at least to some degree important to me.
No Power Off, just Stand By.
Among the 3 brands of DVD transports/players I have used heavily, the transports on the Denons have consistently been the least precise. For example, if you are fast-forwarding and then press Play, playback sometimes doesn't resume even close to the point where you pressed the Play button. Other brands land close or dead on.
Remote buttons have to be pressed firmly to work.
I've bought (almost literally) a ton of Denon products over the years. Counting only the ones I bought new from authorized dealers, many have arrived defective, or had "issues" shortly after the warranty expired. The people that answer their Tech questions have actually been OK, but those in their repair center have been aloof, evasive, and sometimes questionably competent. Making things worse, repair/replacement parts have been discontinued insanely early on many of their most expensive pieces. |
Worth the extra money
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| Review Date: April 26, 2009 |
| Reviewer: Lost Johnny, |
| Very good product, keep one thing in mind. The audio only comes through the HDMI connection so if your reciever only has optical audio inputs (or Thing is this is the only way to have the "lossless" audio we have been reading about. There is no question this is the best sound available but make sure your reciever works with this. |
Denon DVD-2500 BTCI
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| Review Date: February 26, 2009 |
| Reviewer: Levi, |
I cannot say anything else but WOW what an excellent Bluray player this is. Denon went all the way as far as performance and quality. It makes your Blu-ray movies come alive even more. I am using a Denon AVR-2808CI receiver and both work like magic together.
If you want a very well built Bluray player for the amazing price of under $500 this is the one for you.
Highly recommended to anyone who wants the best in bluray playback. |
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