{"id":803,"date":"2009-03-21T14:52:01","date_gmt":"2009-03-21T17:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hifiplanet.com.br\/blog\/?p=803"},"modified":"2010-09-03T11:14:54","modified_gmt":"2010-09-03T14:14:54","slug":"blu-ray-marantz-bd8002","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hifiplanet.com.br\/blog\/blu-ray-marantz-bd8002\/","title":{"rendered":"Blu-ray Marantz BD8002"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.whathifi.com\/productimages\/135000b90th.jpg\" alt=\"Imagem\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\nPublicado pela revista inglesa What  Hi-Fi<\/p>\n<p>Pre\u00e7o: \u00a3  1600<\/p>\n<p>Avalia\u00e7\u00e3o: * * * *\u00a0 (quatro estrelas de cinco)<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Among the front-runners where  pictures are concerned, but it sounds too unadventurous to really stake a  claim<\/p>\n<p>For<br \/>\nReassuring build quality; enthralling Blu-ray pictures<\/p>\n<p>Against<br \/>\nUnbecoming softness to HD audio<\/p>\n<p>If you want to charge well in excess of a grand for a Blu-ray  player, straightforward picture and audio performance isn\u2019t going to be  enough to make your product stand out.<\/p>\n<p>Marantz understands this as well as anyone, which is why its BD8002  looks as impregnable as a bank vault. If all else fails here, at least  your \u00a31600 buys the sort of build quality that wouldn\u2019t shame a  battleship.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, having rapped your knuckles on the lid of the player, the  second thing to do is scrutinise the spec sheet.<\/p>\n<p>Profile 1.1, so no BD Live<br \/>\nHere the Marantz gives a good account of itself (outputting the HD  audio codecs via 7.1 analogue as well as digital HDMI connections, and  packing an SD memory card slot to allow pictures, video and music to be  viewed) while not convincing across the board (Profile 1.1 means no BD  Live content, and there\u2019s no SACD or DVD-A playback).<\/p>\n<p>Set-up is simple, thanks to big menus and an unremarkable remote.  Waiting for a disc to load, on the other hand, requires patience.<\/p>\n<p>Blu-ray players aren\u2019t noted for their speed, but the Marantz has  the knack of waiting until you\u2019re just getting out of your seat to see  what\u2019s gone wrong before deigning to load a disc.<\/p>\n<p>Blu-ray images are worth the wait<br \/>\nOnce up and running though, minor quibbles are forgotten. The  Marantz delivers sumptuous images from our Training Day disc. Contrast  is handled deftly, the BD8002 allowing bright whites and deep blacks to  happily coexist without sacrificing coherence or insight.<\/p>\n<p>The colour palette is rich, with skin tones particularly satisfying,  and there\u2019s fine stability during rapid motion.<\/p>\n<p>As impressive as Blu-rays look, the Pioneer BDP-LX91 does offer  superior detail, while the Sony BDP-S5000ES presents slightly crisper  pictures, with the added bonus of it being \u00a3400 cheaper than the  Marantz.<\/p>\n<p>With sound, the BD8002\u2019s midrange is fluid while treble is smooth,  but its low frequencies can lack tautness and punch at times. The  Marantz can sound overblown more often than is comfortable \u2013 and this is  equally true of decoded soundtracks output via the multichannel  analogue outputs.<\/p>\n<p>Low-end lacks punch with films<br \/>\nWhen it comes to DVD playback, images remain vibrantly hued and the  BD8002 handles movement assuredly, though there\u2019s more picture noise  visible than some price-comparable players allow to intrude.<\/p>\n<p>DVD soundtracks are full-bodied and finely nuanced, but the low end  again lacks punch, and it\u2019s this across-the-board inability to inject  any urgency into the low frequencies that makes the Marantz rather lazy  with CDs.<\/p>\n<p>Six months ago the lack of worthwhile competition at this  price-point would have meant an almost default recommendation for the  Marantz. Right now, though, the BD8002 doesn\u2019t quite have the all-round  game for us to recommend it unconditionally.<\/p>\n<p>If your only consideration is Blu-ray pictures, by all means go  right ahead \u2013 but, at this price, we demand a little more sonic  virtuosity to go with the bomb-proof build.<\/p>\n<p>Tech Specs<\/p>\n<p>HD DVD<br \/>\nNo<br \/>\nBlu-ray<br \/>\nYes<br \/>\nDVD-Video<br \/>\nYes<br \/>\nDVD-A<br \/>\nNo<br \/>\nSACD<br \/>\nNo<br \/>\nCD<br \/>\nYes<br \/>\nMP3<br \/>\nYes<br \/>\nDivX<br \/>\nYes<br \/>\nDVD-R\/-RW<br \/>\nYes<br \/>\nDVD+R\/+RW<br \/>\nYes<br \/>\nDVD-RAM<br \/>\nNo<br \/>\nHDMI out<br \/>\n1<br \/>\nHDMI 1.3a<br \/>\nYes<br \/>\nDVI out<br \/>\n0<br \/>\nComponent out<br \/>\n1<br \/>\nRGB Scart out<br \/>\n0<br \/>\nS-Video out<br \/>\n1<br \/>\nComposite out<br \/>\n1<br \/>\nOptical digital out<br \/>\n1<br \/>\nCoaxial digital out<br \/>\n1<br \/>\nPhono audio out<br \/>\n1<br \/>\nFireWire out<br \/>\n0<br \/>\nMultichannel analogue out<br \/>\n8ch<br \/>\nVideo scaling<br \/>\n1080p<br \/>\n24fps<br \/>\nYes<br \/>\nDolby Digital Plus decoding<br \/>\nYes<br \/>\nDTS HD decoding<br \/>\nYes<br \/>\nDolby TrueHD decoding<br \/>\nYes<br \/>\nDTS HD Master Audio decoding<br \/>\nYes<br \/>\nDolby decoding<br \/>\nYes<br \/>\nDTS Decoding<br \/>\nYes<br \/>\nPCM decoding<br \/>\nYes<br \/>\nDolby Digital Plus HDMI output<br \/>\nYes<br \/>\nDTS HD HDMI output<br \/>\nYes<br \/>\nDolby TrueHD HDMI output<br \/>\nYes<br \/>\nDTS HD Master Audio HDMI output<br \/>\nYes<br \/>\nPCM HDMI output<br \/>\nYes<br \/>\nDimensions (hwd, cm)<br \/>\n40x44x14<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[105],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hifiplanet.com.br\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hifiplanet.com.br\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hifiplanet.com.br\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hifiplanet.com.br\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hifiplanet.com.br\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=803"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hifiplanet.com.br\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1131,"href":"https:\/\/www.hifiplanet.com.br\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803\/revisions\/1131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hifiplanet.com.br\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hifiplanet.com.br\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hifiplanet.com.br\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}