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Best Blu Ray video and for 2 channel transport?

Okay so here it goes... I have a ton of rewards points for best buy... Basically can buy a nice Blu ray player as I have everything else needed for my system.

I need the best transport for audio possible (if possible) and of course excellent Blu Ray video capability..

This unit will need the Coax Digital out, most of the samsungs have Toslink only otherwise this would have been at the top of the list with all their other features and excellent video.. So Sony, Panasonic, LG...

Whos gonna be the best transport to feed to a 2 channel dac?

Yes I know Oppo will be coming with one, but I gotta feeling I will not pay their price, and really not concerned as much about Standard DVD with this exercise, But if you know of a decent machine that can do all 3 well (audio transport, Blu Ray, S-DVD) Than great!

Thanks, oh and looking to keep pricing at the 400 or less mark which seems to be about the prime target for some of the top end players now.
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kennyt
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I would recommend the Sony BDP-S350, it is cheap (I've seen it for ~$200) loads and responds like a standard DVD, is a Profile 2.0 compatible player (you'll need to update firmware and add a memory stick, but they are <$8 nowadays) and has coaxial digital outputs.

I have been a super early adopter of both HD DVD and Blu-ray, and am on my seventh Blu-ray player now and the BDP-S350 is the most usable fastest player I have ever seen or heard of, and the image quality is very good and it will output bitstream for all the new codecs.

I have the Denon DVD-2500BTCI which an awesome unit, but way slower....
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