Pioneer Elite BDP-62FD Question

[Lex]

Does anyone have this Blu Ray player? I am wondering how load time is on it. The old first generation players are so slow, I am hoping someone can tell me this is a FAST player to load?

How about other comments on it?

Appreciate any info.

Doug

[Dmantis]

The newer Pioneer Elite players are much faster then the older models. They are however questionable with built quality. We have had a few of them fail , then repaired then failed again. I had the BDP-53FD and it lasted all about a weekend.
I have yet to mess around with the 62 as we kinda shy'd away from it due to the 5 series issues.
The 5 series Elite receivers also had some HDMI issues , the new 6 series seem to be fine , we had no issues with any 6 series elite's. I'm hoping there was a bad run of HDMI boards in the 5 series.

[Lex]

Dan, even though I read some stuff not overly perfect about the player, I decided to give it a try. If I am lucky and get a good one, great, if not it will be a $300 learning experience. I still have my Sony first gen player, so I will have a backup too.

I'll post some results when it arrives.

[Blindamood]

Secrets review of Pioneer BDP-62FD

[Dmantis]

lex,
good luck with it , I really wish Pioneer would release a reference quality player. I don't see it in this model and have no plans on even putting my hands on one.
I've been holding my breath for so long for Pioneer Elite to release a reference quality Blu ray Universal player that I basically have passed out.

Dan

[Dmantis]

Secrets review of Pioneer BDP-62FD

Thank you for posting that review , it sounds like I wrote it.

[Lex]

well, I guess I may have been to quick to act on this one after reading that review, a bit to trusting of the Elite nameplate. Apparently that doesn't mean what it used to. Lesson learned. I guess we'll see how it compares to my generation 1 player. If I am personally disappointed, then I'll send it back or keep it for SACD only if nothing else.

Maybe it won't disappoint on that.

[madmac]

I find the difference between cd/bd players to be minor but they are there if you have the system to bring out those differences. Before my Marantz CD63SE, I was using a Pioneer Lazerdisc player as a CD player. Needless to say, when I got the Marantz hooked up, the difference in presentation was profound to say the least!!!.

[Ovation]

well, I guess I may have been to quick to act on this one after reading that review, a bit to trusting of the Elite nameplate. Apparently that doesn't mean what it used to. Lesson learned. I guess we'll see how it compares to my generation 1 player. If I am personally disappointed, then I'll send it back or keep it for SACD only if nothing else.

Maybe it won't disappoint on that.

Since your AVR/processor will be doing all the heavy lifting (the player will only send a digital signal ahead to the AVR/processor), it should be competent at SACD.

[Lex]

Yes, the dacs in my MC12 will handle D to A. I am holding out hope that my blu ray results are better than it's review says it will be and better than pioneer's reputation now. It's possible. I hate to be getting something new and just feel like it's junk before I even take it out of the box. But if it's bad, I will send it back to seller. As long as I can get agreement for refund, which I don't think he could deny me with ebay's reseller requirements these days.

[Lex]

The FD62 bd player has not been bad so far for what I paid for it. 315.00 total.

I watched part of Avatar late last night, and it was impressive. The first movie I watched, Knight and Day wasn't quite as impressive, having a lot of pixelization. It could have been a bad transfer on this movie.

I decided it will be nice to have one player on my projector, and one on my plasma (59"), right now I am using this player on my plasma. If I run another HDMI run I could use the one player for both, and I may run another cable anyway to my split. It's crazy, I know, but I do HDMI splitting with cable connections, so I can run different sources to different displays, oh, to have HDMI switching someday, that would be nice. But my MC-12 isn't current with HDMI switching, and it would cost far to much to update. Not in budget.

I tell you one thing, the fast load time is worth changing players for normal use alone. My old Sony is so slow.

Doug

[Dmantis]

Keep us updated Lex , I'm curious how long this player stays working. Hopefully like the rest of the Pioneer Elite 6 series products , it's rock solid. All the 6 series receivers have been excellent.