Universal Digital Players


Are most if not all of the current universal players basically repackaged Pioneer players? It makes me wonder about price versus performance if that is the case. I used to own a Theta DaViD which was based on a Pioneer DVD player and while it was a very good DVD transport it really was not better in my system than the Pioneer DV-09.
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The vast majority of the universal players use Pioneer OEM kits. Many of the mid-fi players are Pioneer OEM kits (Pioneer, Onkyo, etc.) Nearly all of the "high-end" players are Pioneer OEM kits (Lexicon, McCormack, Teac, etc.). The bulk of the remainder use Denon kits (Denon, Marantz, etc.). Then there's the Linn Silverdisk system.

That pretty much covers it, I think.