Sony BDP-CX7000ES Blu-ray Disc Mega-Changer [400-Disc Capacity, Internet Connectivity, Advanced DVD Upscaling]

Have you reached the pinnacle of laziness when it comes to your home entertainment system? By this, I mean have you given up wanting to get off of your ass to actually change the disc in your Blu-ray player? For those of us that never want to have to leave our couch again, Sony has come up with the quintessential Blu-ray changer, the 400-Disc BDP-CX7000ES Mega-Changer.

The BDP-CX7000ES is leading the charge for Sony’s new line of Blu-ray mega-disc changers and it outputs full HD 1080/60p and 24p True Cinema. Designed to integrate with third-party automation control systems, the model features an RS232 connection and IR-in and is built to high-quality ES standards. It offers 7.1 channel analog output and video incorporating Sony’s HD Reality Enhancer and Super Bit Mapping technologies. The HD Reality Enhancer technology continually analyzes the original source bit by bit, sharpening edges and reproducing detail, while reducing the effects of film grain. Super Bit Mapping delivers smoother color gradation realizing true 14-bit equivalent color tone from 8-bit sources.

The BDP-CX7000ES also upscales standard definition DVDs to 1080p through Sony’s Precision Cinema HD Upscale technology when connected to a 1080p display via HDMI. Precision Cinema HD Upscale uses advanced conversion and processing to detect image changes at the pixel level, rather than the level of whole scan lines. Additionally, separate algorithms are used to process the moving and still parts of an image, resulting in sharp backgrounds with moving objects that are free from motion artifacts.

The Sony BDP-CX7000ES supports 7.1 channel Dolby TrueHD and Dolby Digital Plus, DTS-HD High Resolution Audio, and DTS-HD Master Audio decoding as well as bit-stream output via HDMI. It’s compatible with an array of video formats, including BD-ROM/R/RE (BDMV and BDAV modes), DVD-+ Video/R/RW, CD/R/RW, and MP3/JPEG on BD/DVD/CD recordable media and supports x.v.Color (xvYCC) technology. The BDP-CX7000ES also supports Deep Color via HDMI (v1.3). The BDP-CX7000ES is available now for about $1,900.