Thread: Denon DBP 1611UD

The remote controller is filled to the brim with buttons and get quite tedious to use. But you can still get used to it, at least for the primary controls. You face a 1.5 second delay every time you press a button and wait for the player to respond to it. This shouldn't be the case in a Denon Blu-ray player and we were very disappointed by this hiccup. For some odd reason, Denon DBP*16IIUD took its time in giving us the empty disc tray but once we dropped in 'The Dark Knight' Blu-ray, the disc got spinning fast enough to let us not notice the time.

The disc played without any hiccups besides the controller giving us a delayed response every time we pressed 'Next Track' to get through the disc's menu. The black levels of this darkly but brilliantly lit film was flawless and we could tell just how much authority the entire disc mechanism had on this HD video stream. There was not a stutter of any sorts even as the action got faster and neither was there any loss of sharpness.



The same held true for when we dropped in the Blu-ray of 'Kung Fu Panda', due to its animated nature, was sharper and more vivid than the live action 'Batman' sequel. The player really gave us nothing to complain about once the disc got spinning but started to have a few issues such as not allowing the disc to resume its playback position if the 'Home' key on the remote control has been pressed.

This key sends you back into the menu of the player where you can choose to make changes in the player, after which you should be able to continue your movie where you left off. There probably is a way of doing this in the player but we just couldn't get the time to figure this out, and why should we? It's usually a given that this is the standard protocol when you don't eject the disc from the tray to rest the player's resume position. With multimedia content, the player was almost as good as a media server. It played back nearly all of my DivX files although it couldn't pull off MKV ones, which is alright. With YouTube content, the player does take a little time to get to a page where you can begin to search for the video you want to see. But once in, the video stream comes on just as fast as your internet connection allows it to.