This particular Pioneer is a great buy right now, as it has some of the best upscaling capabilities of ANY player. This model is nearly the same as the Elite model, and unless you really need the fancy faceplate and gold connectors, buy this model instead and save yourself a few hundred bucks. The 51fd is a tweaker's player, giving you quite a few options for optimizing your sound and video output, and is a world-class CD player as well with it's terrific Wolfson DACs. The GUI is very refined and easy to use.
The downsides to this product are lack of ethernet and profile 2.0 support, but that's a mixed bag if you ask me. Pioneer has been fairly supportive in firmware updates for this player, which have markedly improved load times and upscaling performance. DTS-MA is still coming down the pipe purportedly, but with Pioneer's sketchy DVD player support in the near future, we shall see if that ever gets released.
The new Pioneers (120, 320, and 23fd) should offer similar performance, but are not built as well as this player. They will also offer ethernet capabilities, and come in at lower msrps.
In short, this player is quite a bit better than any of it's 2008-release, under $1k brethren, and still better than most of the 2009 products as well.
The only player I would consider above this would be the new Oppo, and maybe some of the high-end Denon and the Pio 09fd.Buy Pioneer BDP-51FD BonusView Blu-ray Player!
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