Pioneer DV-610AVE PAL Multiformat DVD, SACD Player with HDMI and USB Host

by Pioneer

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 5.9 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• ASIN: B001PBQNPO
• Item model number: DV-610AV-S
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,690 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)
  • #26 in Electronics > Televisions & Video > DVD Players & Recorders > DVD Players
• Date first available at Amazon.com: June 30, 2009

Product Description

Pioneer DV-610AV is a multi-format DVD player, allowing quality playback in multiple formats, including DVD-Audio and SACD. It was originally designed and marketed for Europe and Asian markets. It does not feature a Pioneer USA Warranty. DivX Ultra certified, which means that you can enjoy impressive picture quality from compressed video files HDMI output with 1080p upscaling Terminals 1 x HDMI out, 1 x USB host (front-in), 1 x Euro-SCART, 1 x Component out, 1 x S-Video out, 1 x Coaxial out,1 x Optical out When you're watching a DVD, the Virtual Surround Sound feature will reproduce a deep, realistic 3D soundspace from just a single pair of stereo speakers Pioneer DV-610 HDMI Video Upscaling to 1080p Will output Dolby Digital from DivX titles Multichannel SACD playback over HDMI Compatible with SACD, DVD-A, DVD-Video, MP3, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-R and DVD-RW Built-in Dolby Digital & DTS Decoders & Virtual Dolby Surround Burr-Brown 192kHz/24-bit DACs x2 and x4 picture zoom (still image and full-motion) Record from CD directly to a USB flash drive or MP3 player Full DVD-RW compatibility, incl. 'VR' format Will playback JPEG/WMA/MP3all on the same DVD-R or CD-R (can display a JPEG while playing WMA/MP3 ) NTSC 2-3 pull down I/P processing (for film contents) Motion Adaptive I/P processing (for video contents) I/P Simultaneous Interlaced and Progressive video output True NTSC to PAL conversion Video Adjustment Sharpness / Brightness / Contrast / Gamma / Hue / Chroma Level BNR (Block Noise Reduction / effective for MPEG1/2 and DivX bad quality sources) 108MHz / 12-bit Video DAC Picture parameter adjustments USB Input Includes MP3 and WMA playback for CD-R/DVD-R with on-screen navigator JPEG Photo Viewer for DVD-R/CD-R On screen MP3 Bit-rate Meter 1 SCART socket with RGB output PAL & NTSC Dual PureCinema Progressive Scan Output Virtual Surround Dialog Enha

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wow! Absolutely love, love, love it!!!, October 30, 2009

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This review is from: Pioneer DV-610AVE PAL Multiformat DVD, SACD Player with HDMI and USB Host (Electronics)

This is the most amazingly satisfying electronics product I have ever bought. The features are many and easy to learn. I especially enjoy some of the audio and video adjustment features:
Audio: DRC setting helps bring up quieter sounds while controlling loud peaks. Great for taming those annoying audio surges in 'background' music or battle scenes, etc. The Dialog feature lets you adjust the dialog perception so that you can hear the voices better over the background sounds in the soundtracks.
Video: You can adjust the Sharpness, Brightness, Contrast, Gamma, Hue, Chroma Level and BNR (block noise reduction). Each one has several levels to choose from and you get to sample it as it adjusts, so you can skip back and forth and compare the difference before you decide what to settle on.
The USB mode has great, easy to navigate menus. You can also record to your thumb drive from a CD that you are playing. There is a choice of different bit rates to do this and you can record individual tracks or all tracks. Very user-friendly menus for all these choices.
This unit has too many features to list, especially for someone like me, who is not quite fluent in tech terminology. Suffice it to say that it performs all the functions beautifully, the manual is very user-friendly and not only tells you how to adjust/change the various settings, but also explains the technical terminology in real English, so you know what those settings actually do when activated.
I do love the region-free feature too. But for me, this is more ho-hum, since I already owned one - a far inferior quality Philips one.
About the only thing I can think of to improve the user-friendliness of this product would be to have an alphabetized index in the manual. But, since it's only a 61 page manual, it's not such a big issue overall.
Another suggestion I would have would be to allow to record audio from DVDs also. So often, the audio track on a DVD sounds so much better than the soundtrack that is published on CD (i.e.: Brassed Off, Eyes Wide Shut), although I recognize there may be some copyright issues with that concept.
For the record: I am getting a second unit for my upstairs TV. Have I mentioned that I love it...? This is a really great product!!!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great DVD Player!, May 26, 2010

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This review is from: Pioneer DV-610AVE PAL Multiformat DVD, SACD Player with HDMI and USB Host (Electronics)

No problems at all with this DVD player, except for one minor annoyance (which I solved after reading the manual)

I would have expected the NTSC/PAL settings to be somewhere within the set-up menu, but no, the TV-standard options are controlled by pressing the power button while holding down the "next" button (see page 52 in manual)
The weird thing is that the manual says "except Taiwanese model" in regard to this function, and I'm pretty sure this IS the Taiwanese model because it comes with the Taiwanese accessories listed on page 61, but in any case, it works fine.

If you have a multi-standard tv/monitor, set the player to Auto so you get pure NTSC and pure PAL video from NTSC/PAL DVDs. If you have a US/NTSC tv, set the player to forced NTSC so that it will convert PAL to NTSC. If your tv is PAL-only, set the player to forced PAL, and it will convert NTSC to PAL. Simple once you've found the "hidden" function lurking at the back of the manual!!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars What a versatile DVD player!, May 19, 2010

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tgear "tgear" (Sarasota FL USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Pioneer DV-610AVE PAL Multiformat DVD, SACD Player with HDMI and USB Host (Electronics)

Just wanted to add my two cents that this is one killer device. If you ever plan on listening to high quality surround sound that DVD-Audio or SACD can provide, this is a great, inexpensive unit to consider. Actually, most other units cost much more. This Pioneer AV 610s for me, is more for audio than video although it has the ability to play all region DVD videos. I have a separate Blu-ray player for my videos.

Set-up was a little tricky for me as the DVD-Audio played right away causing me to think all is well with my set-up. But I had a little struggle getting the SACD's to play in surround. (I use the direct analog component output, 6 separate cables to the input of my Onkyo Receiver -not the usual Digital opti-link or RCA connector). For that to finally work I had to go to the options section and specify 5.1 sound in the speaker section. That makes sense to me now, although it took me awhile to realize that the AUDIO section in the set-up was NOT were this takes place. Again that's in the OPTIONS menu. Once that was done I finally had great surround sound. Took about a half an hour for me to figure that out. A little alcohol may have been involved. My bad.

Anyway, when you get past the instructions, which are well written, it will do all it's supposed to do. Except for the fact that actual DVD-Audio discs are apparently no longer being made (but still available -some for a premium price I'm afraid) this is well worth it to me. I'm not sure about SACD's current production status.

One more thing... Music has a repeatability factor that movies don't have. One can enjoy listening to songs & music over and over. Try that with most movies.