It pipes high-definition 2D pictures to your TV in their crispest, purest form – provided you haven’t tampered with the Video Adjust picture settings too dramatically, that is. The BDP-150 also handles the tricky test patterns on our Silicon Optix HQV disc smoothly, with a little strobing in the Film Resolution Loss test being the only chink in its video processing armour.Īnd with our Avengers Assemble Blu-ray, the deck’s picture quality is positively super-heroic. Pioneer BDP-150 – Performanceĭisc loading is fast – Avengers Assemble fires up in just 25 seconds although it chews over Java-heavy discs for a bit longer.
There are dedicated buttons for Netflix, Media Gallery and Continued. It’s a completely different zapper to that of the BDP-450, with a cheaper plasticky feel, but the rubber buttons are sensibly arranged into clear sections and the frequently-used playback and direction pad are perfectly placed for the thumb. We criticised the Pioneer BCS-SB626 system for its cluttered, unhelpful remote, but here Pioneer gets it right. That’s great news if you have to adjust something in the setup menu, which can only be accessed when the disc has stopped. To use it, simply press the dedicated button on the remote at the point you want to resume.
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The other presets comprise Standard, Vivid (avoid) and Cinema, plus there are three levels of noise reduction.Īlso on board is ‘Continued’, which allows you to resume playback if you have to stop the movie, which not all Blu-ray discs allow you to do. These conflicting picture tweaks seem like overkill and could play havoc with picture quality if you start messing around with them together. It’s complicated further by three Sharpness presets. However, among the Video Mode presets found elsewhere is a Custom setting where you can make the same adjustments as above, alongside sharpness and CTI. Of greatest interest to video perfectionists will be the Video Adjust settings within the Display section, where you can tweak brightness, contrast, hue and saturation. When navigating server/USB content, it uses a familiar folder sequence and displays cover art with track details during music playback.ĭelve into the Initial Setup menu and there’s tonnes to play around with, including display, audio, HDMI, network and playback options – all set out in clearly defined categories. They aren’t particularly exciting to look at but are clear and easy to read.
Select any of these menus and they retain the same left-to-right layout, with crisp white text set against black backgrounds.
The menu offers three options – Home Media Gallery, where you’ll find all your digital media content from connected devices Web Contents, where you can access YouTube, Netflix and Picasa and Initial Setup. A wholly superfluous but stylish monochrome graphic appears on the right to denote your selection. Hit the Home Menu button and a menu box appears on the left, over a gradated grey background. It might not boast the eye-popping onscreen menus of the latest LG and Samsung players but Pioneer’s displays have a quiet class about them, allowing you to explore features without getting bogged down in graphics and icons.Įverything kicks off from a black splashscreen with the Pioneer logo dead centre. Operation, Performance and Verdict Review.
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