Product Description
Denon DVD-557 Progressive Scan DVD Player - Featuring progressive scan technology, this DVD player from Denon displays your favorite DVD movies with a sharper, noise-free image with finer detail. This is due to the fact that with progressive scan, more of the image is displayed on the screen at any given moment. Color - Black
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The DVD-557 is Danon's entry level single disc progressive scan DVD player offering exceptional video quality by using a fast 10 bit 108 MHz video processor. The DVD-557 has been upgraded with an HDMI digital video output with scaling to 1080i, for a professional looking picture with today's digital video displays. This coupled with a variety of audio decoders, gives you a solid audio video performer.
Feature List
- HDMI interface with multi channel audio
HDMI is the only interface in consumer electronics that can carry both uncompressed high-definition video and uncompressed multi-channel audio in all HD formats, including 720p, 1080i, and even 1080p. An all-digital, uncompressed signal translates into the highest quality video and audio, seen and heard, direct from the source.
- Progressive scan
Progressive Scan technology represents a vast improvement over the interlaced scanning method used in TV broadcasts and other conventional applications, as it can proce3ss around twice as much video data to produce a sharper, noise-free picture with finer details. High-definition video images are faightfully displayed with optimum naturalness and beauty. Now, this DCDi technology that was available only in the higher-end DVD players has been included in Denon's affordable DVD-757.
- Picture adjustment function
Brightness/Contrast/Color/Gamma Correction/Sharpness
- DVD-R/RW playback
With the increasing presence of DVD recorders, consumers are increasingly recording audio and video material onto DVD discs. These discs can be played back on the DVD-757.
- CD-R/RW (MP3 / Windows Media Audio 9 / JPEG / Kodak Picture CD)
The DVD-757 supports the CD-R/RW format. It plays finalized CD-R/RW discs (single-session or multi-session) containing MP3/WMA9 audio files. It also reads still photos in the Koda Picture CD or JPEG format taken by a digital camera. WMA is an audio compression format developed with Microsoft technology. It claims to offer the highest quality sound available in the industry. If WMA is used to compress a music CD on a PC, for instance, using the new Encoder 9, the quality of sound at 48 kbps is said to be equivalent to that of the original cD.
- 24-bit, 192-kHz high resolution audio D/A converters
- VSS (Virtual Surround Sound)
Enjoy envoloping surround sound using just one pair of speakers.
- Discrete remote control commands for Power On/Off
- Picture zooming (x2 or x4)
During play, when you press the Zoom button on the remoted control, you can enlarge the picture by 2x or 4x. Use the cursor to move the enlarged viewing area up, down, to the left, or to the right.
- PCM, Dolby Digital and DTS Digital output
- 24/96 PCM digital output capability
- Icon based on-screen display
A simple press of the Display button on the remote controller lets you see the current operating status of the DVD-757 within an easy-to-read display on screen. The various operations and settings are easily changed using the remote controller while monitoring the screen display.
- 2 MB buffer memory
This unit is equipped with a 2 MB buffer memory to ensure that both picture and sound are played without interruption when the DVD disc shifts from layer 1 to layer 2, or in the rare event of a pickup dropout.
- Auto power OFF
- Marker function
- Dialog speed control
Customer Reviews:
Very Good for the Price.......2007-09-25
Just picked up this player and have been happy so far. It's hooked to a 720p DLP TV via HDMI, with optical out going to a surround sound receiver. I read a review elsewhere complaining that the picture was rather washed out. I noticed the picture was a bit soft and created a profile on my TV that adjusts the contrast, brightness, and color, and the results are fantastic. If your TV does not support multiple profiles, the DVD player itself allows you to adjust all of these settings, so you should be able to get the desired results. Great value for the price.
Better Value than the Denon DVD-1930CI.......2007-01-14
Thinking I could find a better upscaling DVD player than the Oppo 971H to pair with my 1080i CRT display if I spent a few more bucks, I bought the Denon DVD-1930CI. There was a lot to admire about the Oppo, but paired with my three-year-old DVI-compatible display it produced too much edge shimmer in scenes where the camera pans over fine horizontal lines.The 1930CI was better in this regard and outperformed the Oppo in the audio department. I sent the Oppo back, but continued to research the edge shimmer issue to see if their was a machine for less than $500 that would give me the sharpest possible picture without producing this distracting effect. After reading too many A/V forum posts in search of the answer, I took the counter-intuitive approach and bought a machine without the coveted Faroudja DCDi chip, thinking a plain old progressive scan might do the trick. So I bought the DVD-557 (which sells in "higher-end" stores under the 1730 badge) and pitted it against the 1930CI (aka the 757) for the better part of a week. In core audio performance, the two machines were identical. The technical specs confirm this, as did a side-by-side test where I toggled back and forth between the two machines playing the same source material. On the video performance side of the equation, there were differences, but with most DVDs were so subtle, I honestly can't say which I preferred. I must have compared a dozen DVDs side by side looking for the 1930CI to have a clear enough edge to justify its significantly higher price. Only one DVD in my collection, "Office Space", clearly showed the differences between the two machines. The 1930CI produced a much more stable image when the disc's menus were on the screen. During the movie itself, video quality differences were hard to detect, if there at all. I did more such side-by-side tests in search of performance differences as dramatic as the "Office Space" menu test, but could not find any. Im the end, I returned the 1930CI and kept the 575. Neither machine produced a perfect picture, but figured for the $200 difference, I'd be more forgiving -- and thus more satisfied -- with the 575. That said, there are other issues beyond the machine's core performance that may be a factor for some of you: The 1930CI supports Super Audio CD and DVD-Audio discs; the 575 does not. And while the DCDi chip on board the 1930CI might earn its keep when the machine is paired with, say, a 720P or 1080P display, the chip's virtues were not apparent on my 1080i display. What's most striking about these two machines is how similar they are. On the cosmetic front, the 1930CI has a brushed aluminum face instead of the plastic face plate on the 757. Other than that and one or two buttons, they are twins in every way. Their exterior measurements are identical, they weigh in within a couple ounces of each other, have the same serviceable-but-unimpressive disc tray, and were both built in China. They're also a tad noisy. If you want the refinement, heft and perfomance of a high-end A/V component, you'll have to step up to the Denon DVD-2930. It's built like a tank, or at least a light armored vehicle, and judging from the in-store demonstration I saw, can perform minor miracles -- but at a fairly hefty price for a non-HD machine: it costs two-and-a-half times as much as the 1930CI.
Denon's quality.......2006-11-24
Update:
I been using my PS3 as a dvd player (HDMI also) and the images are a tad sharper on the PS3 via a LCD set. The colors are fairly close, but the edge also goes to the PS3. Denon 557 images produced more blocky outline also. I would have to knock off a star (4 stars now) from my orginal review. This player looks fine on an analog tube set.
Denon entry level DVD is outstanding and extremely is an upgrade over standard DVD players. Denon make great circuit for receiver and the first thing I noticed is the sound reproduction is much purer. I didn't know my old DVDs and CDs that I just played on this Denon system would sound noticeably better.
The image is the best I have seen for a DVD player on an LCD. I will be honest, flat panel HDTV LCD does not produce as good of an image as picture tube HDTV. Progressive scan doesn't really work on flat panel as it does on a tube HDTV. Older and cheaper DVD movies will not show much improvement on this player, since they remain burry on LCD. But the newer DVD movies looked a lots better. There is no miracle, even DVDs displayed at 1080i do not look like true 1080 HD or blue-ray images.
Minor items I notice:
The player disc spin is a little nosier on some DVDs then other players. The remote is not universal, just for Denon with a very comfortable layout. The player façade have more buttons compare to others. Average to better boot time. You can have multiple outputs with HDMI, Component, s-video all at once. The unit built quality is solid with a nice aluminum panel. Yes, it does plays cd pics and smoother then most other DVD players.
Does up-coverting really works, not really, but the HDMI output over Component is the different here. Denon also came out with a pricier 1080p model.
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