High End DVD Players

By The Manolith Team on October 20th, 2008

Rapidly progressing technology has left us with a host of new optical storage options like Blu-ray, and high def, which will undoubtedly take the place of general DVD technology – eventually. In the mean time, however, many people are searching for best digital technology money can buy, and when it comes to the DVD player, the best money can buy starts at about 300 dollars.
High-end DVD players that cost between 300 and 500 bucks are typically part of the hi-fi elite. Don’t’ get us wrong, you can find high end DVD players that cost as much as 1,000 dollars, but these units prove to be more for show than for go. In fact, spending more than 500 dollars for a high end DVD player will offer a decline in return.

The best choices when shopping for a high-end DVD player will offer you a better quality DAC unit that will produce audio and video that’s pretty much top of the line. You will also find that today’s high-end DVD players will offer high resolution formats for audio (SACD or DVD Audio). High-end DVD players offer a plethora of decoding options and every DVD-CD R/W features available. High-end units can decode WMA, MP3, PCM, Dolby, and DTS formats and some offer HDMI and DVI digital outputs (you will find that players with these outputs tend to cost a bit more).
Lets a take a look at some high-end DVD players:
The NAD T533 is a unit that offers hard working audio components and a sleek design. It offers users top notch sound and video processing quality and reads a plethora of variant formats like JPG, MP3, DVD-R/W, R/W, Kodak, WMA, Dolby, PCM, and DTS. This unit offers 5.1 high resolution audio output.
Next we’ll talk about the Cambridge Audio Azur 540D. This is a DVD player that offers an exceptionally high build quality and extremely rapid DACs. The audio and video outputs of this machine meet the highest of expectations and it offers exemplary sound. The unit’s design is sleek and clean on the outside and immaculate on the inside. The Cambridge offers a 12 bit video processor, which operates at 54MHz (a feature that’s standard on most high-end DVD players).
High end DVD players, like VCRs before them, are becoming more and more affordable due to our rapid progression of technology in the world of digital media; so, if you’re considering the purchase of one of these superior quality units, now may be the time to buy!