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| Brand | Pioneer |
| Type | Electronics |
| Special Price |
| Lowest Used Price | $75.00 |
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| DVD Players Pioneer Other 12 Inches & Under |
Description |
| This is a high-performance movie and music machine. In addition to DVD movies, the slim DV-563A plays multi-channel, high-resolution DVD-Audio and SACD discs, in addition all of your recordings on DVD-R/RW, CD-R/RW, and MP3. It even has a PhotoViewer aspect for viewing JPEG still photos. For sensationally excellent video, it features a 10-bit/54MHz Video D-A converter and the PureCinema 2: 3 Progressive Scan, and consists of a component video output. For excellent audio, it proposes Virtual Dolby Digital together with SRS TruSurround and digital outputs for Dolby Digital and DTS surround. A high-end 192kHz/24-bit D-A converter ensures superb musical performance. |
| The Pioneer DV-563A is a high-performance movie and music machine. In addition to DVD movies, the slim DV-563A plays multichannel, high-resolution DVD-Audio and SACD discs, in addition all of your recordings on DVD-R/RW, CD-R/RW, and MP3. It has a PhotoViewer aspect for viewing JPEG still photos. For excellent video playback, the DV-563A features a 10-bit/54MHz Video D-A converter and Pioneer's PureCinema 2:3 Progressive Scan, and consists of a component-video output. This player in addition maintains the Super VCD standard, which proposes enhanced image excellence to the Video CD standard and lets two stereo soundtracks to be recorded as well as support for widescreen. Experience the super high-excellence audio performance of DVD-Audio and Super Audio CD (SACD). The onboard 24-bit/192kHz DAC means this this player is fully compatible together with high-sampling-rate discs, capable of bringing unprecedented sound excellence in terms of dynamic range, low-altitude resolution, and high-frequency detail. The DV-563A features multichannel analog outputs for connection to an AV amplifier to provide you spectacular surround sound from Dolby Digital, DTS, and multichannel DVD-Audio discs. SRS TruSurround creates a realistic surround-sound result from any Dolby Digital or Pro Logic encoded source utilizing just two speakers. Other features contain: - While a DVD or Video CD/Super VCD is playing, you can zoom in on any part of the image at up to 4x magnification.
- Compatibility together with CD-R, CD-RW, and CD-ROM discs this contain MP3 audio tracks.
- Auto power-off function automatically switches player into standby if not used for over 30 minutes.
- Built-in bass management for adjusting speaker size, delay time, and channel balance when utilizing 5.1-channel output.
Tech Speak
- SACD: Super Audio CD (SACD) is a high-resolution digital audio format this promises vast sonic innovations over the existing audio CD format. Super Audio CD discs can be played back on dedicated Super Audio CD players or combination SACD/DVD-Video players. Certain SACD discs aspect a conventional audio CD layer (hybrid SACDs) which can be played back by any CD player or computer together with a CD-ROM drive.
- Progressive scan: In addition called sequential scanning, a progressive-scan system displays the entire picture--getting all the horizontal lines per frame, rather than each other line--one time each 60th of a second. This method decreases flicker and enhances stability. Progressive-scan viewing requires a compatible digital TV.
- Component video: Unlike a single video input, component video supports the video signal as three separate signals throughout these three jacks. This connection offers optimum excellence. To ensure maximum image excellence, use three video-grade cables for the Y, Pb, and Pr connections.
What's in the Box
Pioneer DV-563A DVD/SACD player, remote control (VXX2865), 2 AA batteries, 6.5-foot power wire, RCA cable, and operating instructions. |
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Customer Reviews |
 Built to last but not to sound great on CD's 2007-06-08 |
| By Reticuli (Las Vegas) |
This unit has been thrown across the room once and dropped three times. It still works perfectly. The overall picture is not quite as fine-grade as the DV-45A/655A-Import, but it does not crush the reds in the way those do or have such an oddly-dark picture that you must compensate for.
Like the 655A-Import, the SACD playback is nearly flawless and if you've set the speakers all to large/On, the original Sony DSD chip just sends the pseudo-analog 1-bit signal directly to a filter and then to the volume-controlled output opamps. So all you're really hearing is the quality of the power supply, the filter coil, some caps, and the opamps with SACD's when it's set up properly.
DVD-A playback is quite good with very extended high frequencies and none of the upper-midrange artificial smearing or texturing the 45A/655A-import units exhibit. Homemade DVD-A's of 24bit DJ mixes from vinyl sounded more neutral overall. The 563A does lack the refinement that the other Pioneers and many receivers are capable of in this category, though. Cirrus DACs, such as those used by Harman, Marantz, and Rotel amps, tend to excel in this department. Unfortunately, this early Universal was unable to send 24/192 through its digital out.
CD playback is surprisingly lucid in its detail, but otherwise thin, lifeless, and fairly boring. The good thing is again the extension on top and lack of overt distortion. If you think there's a slight lack of refinement to 24bit PCM from this player, however, you're in for a cold shower with 16bit. The DAC architecture and its PCM-fed filter stage are clearly tailored to DVD-A, and are budget-quality at that. You will get better results with practically any amp's own decoders for Redbook 16/44.1. In all honesty, the 44.1 format is pitiful and should have been 48khz from the beginning. It takes expertise to get it to sound good. It isn't painful or offensive here, per say, but the unfortunate low-point of the player. There is no finesse, no warmth, no real midrange inner-light or liquidity. All the details are there and it is not rolled-off, but the music isn't quite...uh...musical.
For DVD-Audio and Video, this is acceptable performance. For SACD, you cannot do much better than this without spending much more. The 563A is also easily moddable by any of the reputable online companies to bring it into the Sony SCD-1 territory concerning Super Audio, which would also improve its DVD-A and CD playback to some extent. The Sony is in another universe when it comes to Red Book, though, and no amount of modding any Pioneer is going to change that. My modded Denon DCM-370 HDCD changer is smack dab in audiophile land, though. A different character than the Sony, but at least they're on the same planet and possibly in the same nation...o.k., I'm taking this metaphor a little far here.
The biggest thing about it, though, is its incredible durability. Being it was the first domestically-released budget universal player on the market, this is an amazing achievement and is a testament to Pioneer as a company. As an audio transport (sans SACD and 24/192) you cannot do any better than this.
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 Oh My Rod, This thing is Awesome! 2004-08-23 |
| By MrPorterhouse |
| I'll keep this short and sweet because so many people have already sung the praises. I have logged numerous hours with this DVD/Universal Player and have not seen any problems. Picture quality is amazing and the High Resolution Audio Capability is superb. SACD and DVD-Audio have never sounded so good. This is a true giant-killer and worth its weight in gold. |
| Excellent player, with only one baffling element.. 2004-08-13 |
| By Giacomo C. |
I have had this player for some months now, and am very pleased with the performance all round. Video always looks good, no problems there. Every existing audio and video connection is available on the back, very nice indeed.
What makes this player truly great though is that it is a universal player - apart from the usual video, mp3, etc capabilities it also plays DVD Audio and SACD (super audio cd) - and it does so smashingly. The new formats are played back beautifully. It also gives you the best that your regular cds have to offer.
I would really give this player the full five stars, except that it has one baffling, and extremely irritating feature - while it actually does PAL to NTSC conversion (very nicely I might add), it is not region free, nor can it be rendered so easily.
I ask you, how many region 1 PAL discs have YOU seen on the market?
Because of this I have to keep a second player (one of those no name brand bargain basement ones - does an excellent job by the way) for the sole purpose of playing my region 2 PAL discs (expensive legitimately purchased discs of material that simply is not available in a region 1 version).
Of course if you do not own any other region discs (nor plan on ever getting any) then this will be irrelevant to you.
In conclusion, an excellent player all around, I fully recommend it - but with that one glaring error in design (Pioneer really let down their customers with that one). |
| Great Player 2004-05-30 |
| By Gustavo Diaz (Fort Mill, SC) |
| This is a great multi format player. So far I've been playing a lot of DVD-R's with excellent results. I was having a lot of problems with my previous JVC player. |
| Also plays DVD +R 2004-05-22 |
| By Scuba Steve (Reston, VA, USA) |
| Fantastic Video, excellent audio, heavy feature set, and looks great...but that's not why I bought it. In the past, if you wanted max format compatibility, you had to sacrifice video quality. Sure, you can stick a slice of pizza in a Sony DVP-NS725P and it will play a Little Caesars commercial, but the video quality is horrendous. I searched high and low looking for a player that can read a wide range of formats, including DVD +R, without having to sacrifice quality...and just when I was about to give up, someone turned on a Grail shaped beacon. Enter the Pioneer DV-563A. I dropped in every +R that I have and it played them flawlessly. No skipping, no laser chirping. It even played disks on lower quality media that were burned right to the edge. Absolutely awesome. By the way, the specs do not advertise +R and I am using a recorder that supports bit setting so your mileage may vary. |
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