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After Panasonic and Sony, it’s now Pioneer’s turn to announced their new Elite BDP-09FD Blu-ray player. And like the other new Blu-ray players, Pioneer would not just let the competitors outwit them in features and functionality. As such, Pioneer’s new Blu-ray player boast of advanced features as well that include 16-bit video engine, I/P conversion, video scaling, video adjustments of HD and SD content and QDEO processor and Renesas Technology’s video decoder. The result of all these technology? - a full 1080p video viewing pleasure with smoother picture free of artificial noise.

Other features of the BDP-09FD Blu ray player include Pioneer’s Adaptive Bit Length Expansion technology which enables the player to represent the purest color of the movies, BD movie restoration, 8-bit color production, dual HDMI 1.3a outputs and BD-Live support.

The BDP-09FD offers full Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio support, an analog digital board, eight Wolfson WM8740 Audio DACs, custom made capacitors, and Precision Quartz Lock System (PQLS) which allows synchronization of audio data between the Blu-ray player and the Pioneer elite A/V receivers.

Although release date is not yet announced, the BDP-09FD will most likely be released sometime this year and will retail for around $2,199.

Read [Business Wire]