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Who makes blue-ray w/universal player ?

I have a denon dv-2900 ; thinking of either replacing
with a blue ray -- if it can do universal playing ; DVD-A,
SACD, DVD, and cd.
OR - can this be ungraded to hdmi - then will it match blu-ray-- does it already have blue -ray performance ?
mazzjazz

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magfan
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just saw the 'road test' of a Denon Universal.....don't remember model #.
It was also 4500$, which is 9x the OPPO of 95% the performance.
Given how temporary formats are these days and the rapid pace of so-called improvements, the OPPO is the no-brainer choice.
magfan
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Bar,
Would you believe......? The OPPO with a good DAC?
I have experimented with my DV981 optical into my CA840c's input......
An improvement to be sure.

I am not up to speed on the mod guys. I wonder how, within weeks of issue of a new player, that they can come out with several levels of 'package'.

I wonder how many of the changes are boiler plate and how many were the result of listening tests.
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