When the action kicks off in martial arts caper The Raid, there’s no digital fizz or noise to distract from the fast-paced, low-contrast action. Image quality is exactly what you’d expect of a mass-market machine and is free from self-induced artefacts to spoil the hi-def fun. In more traditional disc-spinning mode, the BDP-160 does a fine job laying down bits and beats. To help make more of lower bitrate audio, Pioneer’s Sound Retriever effectively interpolates compressed audio for a more fulsome listening experience.
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The deck’s USB media reader is similarly adept, playing MP3s with album art, along with Ogg Vorbis, WMA, APE, WAV, M4A, AIFF, AAC, MKV, WMV and MP4 files. On the downside, navigating remote folder structures can seem a tad unintuitive. File format support, both for audio and video, proves to be comprehensive: AAC/M4A, WAV, FLAC up to 192kHz, MP3, WMA, AVI, MKV, MOV, MP4. Once connected, selecting the Home Media Gallery successfully locates whatever DLNA servers you might have lurking on your LAN. For those that need it, there’s WPS (Wi-Fi protected setup) provision for logging onto your network. Pioneer clearly doesn’t intend for you to spend a great deal of time streaming with its toy. The Web content button is virtually a misnomer, bringing forth just YouTube and Picasa. There’s only rudimentary Smart online functionality, too. The menu is dull to the point of insult and basic when it comes to design. The BDP-160 itself presents a somewhat Amish face to the world. Perhaps Pioneer thinks that people are more likely to use its iControlAV2013 app instead?
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The remote control is a standard IR jobbie, albeit so insubstantial it’s just a balloon or two away from a full Pixar Up flight to South America. Reflecting the low asking price, the build quality is unavoidably lightweight (just 2kg), but it all looks presentable enough. The transport mechanism itself is loaded centrally, with a second front-facing USB presented to the right.
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Rear connections are standard issue: there’s a solitary HDMI, plus digital coaxial audio and stereo phono outputs, Ethernet and USB. Everything you’d want to do with a Blu-ray player, in fact. You can rack it, stack it and pile copies of HCC high atop it.
The player is a classic slab, measuring 435mm across and 250mm deep. It’s not too much of a spoiler to reveal that I rather like it – although it doesn’t emerge entirely smelling of caramel popcorn and roses. But equally it’s no Luddite, offering network file playback and token online diversions, too.įor those seeking a 3D-compatible player to partner a new telly, or latecomers still moving from DVD, this Pioneer has just enough funk to stoke the fires of upgrade. And secondly, it even handles some of the more obscure discs you still own and would rather like to keep, such as those Destiny’s Child SACDs (but not, unfortunately, your DVD-Audio platters). For starters, it looks like a Blu-ray deck should, rather than something impractical cobbled together for a Shoreditch design competition. Pioneer’s BDP-160 Blu-ray player is unrepentantly old school. It may look resolutely retro, but this affordable Blu-ray deck delivers where it counts
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