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Denon's Battleship is Back - with HDTV pictures from Standard DVD! (15/11/2004)

Denon once again leapfrog the competition, to set new standards in picture quality and advance the art of DVD.

Denon DVD-A1XV THX-ULTRA Reference Class Universal DVD Player

- WORLD FIRST Hollywood Quality Video (HQV) Powered by Teranex from Silicon Optix Realta. A new standard in DVD replay Exclusive to Denon
- Plays virtually ANY DISC. DVD, DVD-A, SACD, MP3, WMA, JPEG, PHOTO CD, DVD / CD -R +R etc etc
- EVERY OUTPUT. HDMI, DVI, FireWire, Denon Link, Progressive Component, Composite, S-Video, RGB SCART

$200 millions worth of insane video technology from Lockheed-Martin missile guidance research, transitioned to Hollywood digital editing suites, then to USA high-def TV networks and now exclusively to this Denon DVD Player.

This is the technology used to generate broadcast HDTV pics from standard material and to clean-up and remaster Hollywood DVDs like the Star Wars Trilogy. This is real rocket science! at real-world pricing.

Denon have packed $60,000 worth of this 'HQV by Teranex' video processing into the new DVD-A1XV to move the goal posts and deliver High-Definition level pictures from standard DVD.

This may be one of the most serious and expensive DVD players on the planet, but it is a bargain in the context of the £5000 to £15,000 projectors, £5000 amps and £10,000 speakers it will be used with. Many consumers already have HD ready Plasmas, LCDs or Projectors, for these the A1XV will be the source of choice.

In true flagship style, the A1XV features advanced technological architecture, battleship audiophile construction and brings together all of DenonÕs extensive digital experience to deliver stunning results. In addition to being an awesome vision product, this is also a world class high-end music player.

Hollywood Quality Video (HQV) via the Realta chip from Silicon Optix.

HQV by Teranex

The pristine jaw-dropping images previously available only to Hollywood post production and broadcast facilities (and anyone else with a spare $60,000 to spend), is now available to real people, with the introduction of the Denon DVD-A1XV featuring the new Realta with HQV single-chip video processor.

The Realta chip is the result of three years of collaboration between Silicon Optix and Teranex, a leading supplier of image processing solutions for the broadcast, post-production, and high-end home cinema markets.

To quote Jed Deame, Teranex's co-founder; "Realta's HQV technology matches, and in many cases exceeds, the industry leading video processing seen in the $60k Teranex Xantus system, dramatically raising the bar for home picture quality."

Combining Teranex's trillion operation-per-second broadcast-quality video processing with Silicon Optix's proprietary geometric scaling technology and Denon's supporting high-end hardware, the Realta chip creates a new standard for image quality.

When Teranex uses the term "broadcast quality", one can presume that they know what they're talking about. Teranex video processors are used by numerous post production and broadcast studios.

Overview of Realta HQV processing:

- True professional quality de-interlacing using the full four-field processing for video and film sources.
- Multi-Direction Diagonal Filter (MDDF) using a true 10-bit diagonal interpolator to remove "jaggies" and/or stair-stepping artefacts without blurring the image. - Noise adaptive and motion adaptive pixel-by-pixel 4D noise reduction reduces noise for video and film sources
- Detail Enhancement improves image detail on a pixel-by-pixel basis for SD that approaches HD quality.
- Automatic Film Cadence Processing provides industry-first support for "Vari-Speed cadences such as 3:2:3:2:2 as well as numerous others to ensure film and video sources will be seen in the original format without loss of resolution.
- Automatic Per Pixel Video/Film Detection makes pixel-level decisions for processing film pixels as film and video pixels as video to avoid processing artefacts that occur in sequences such as titles or credits over film backgrounds.
- True 10-bit Processing enables rendering of over 1 billion colours.

Retail price bracket £2k to £2.5k. Q1 2005 at Bristol Show 2005 Launch. Subject to confirmation.

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