BonusView

BonusView (also known as BD Profile 1.1 or Final Standard Profile) players include a minimum of 256 MB local memory and the ability to play Picture-in-Picture. This feature displays a second image in a sub window for in-movie experiences such as active audio and video commentary.

Audio mixing lets you switch the sound between the main and sub windows.

BD-Live

BD-Live (also called BD Profile 2.0) players include a minimum of 1GB local memory and bring picture-in-picture and online functionality via the player’s internet connection.

The profile allows you to download up-to-date content to add to the movie, from refreshed trailers to exclusive special features.

Put simply, HD Digital Film Direct means “Master Quality”: what you see and hear on your flat-screen is exactly as the film-makers intended. Absolutely true to the original.

We’ve applied this standard as a label (see the logo on the right) to those of our products that accurately handle 24fps (frames per second) movie content; this will help you make the right product choice for the true HD movie experience.

Films are typically shot, developed and encoded for cinema reproduction at 24fps.

Regular PAL broadcasting and DVD have always played these images back at 25 fps (50Hz).

This has the effect of speeding up images and raising the pitch of sounds and voices.

But, the new high definition discs, like Blu-ray Disc, offer you access to a digitised ”true to the original” copy of the theatrical movie content.

We offer a product range that is perfectly matched for bringing the real cinema experience into your home: amplifiers, Blu-ray Disc players, home cinema systems and flat-screen TVs with our trademark screening of 24fps source input at 72Hz (3 images displayed per original frame).

Traditionally, your digital photo (or JPEG) files could only be displayed at the standard DVD resolution when you played them on your DVD player.

However, the scaling abilities of our new players ensure that your photo's can now be shown in outstanding high definition detail.

Conversion of digital 8-bit DVD-Video data to analogue data can degrade Y (luminance) and C (chrominance) colour signals, distorting picture colour on playback. How do Pioneer DVD players overcome this problem to unleash more magnificent brilliance, depth, and detail in every colour?

Pioneer D/A conversion upgrades 8-bit Y/C signal data to 12-bit or 10-bit data to maintain data integrity and reproduce images that are truer to the DVD source.