A while back I purchased the Yamahas540DVD player as it had some nice features and was supposedly easily hackable to be region free...Press 99990 on the remote control...
Or for an extra £40 i could get the Home Cinema system which i believe started life selling as £600 and it is this price which keeps telling me i should plump for it as it seems like a good bargain...If you must buy a Sony make sure you get a good deal on a 5 year warranty to go with it...The Yamaha 540 I had really bad ghosting...
Are these features worth the extra money...i assume your talking about spdif or optical audio outs which are pretty much useless outside of the domestic environment...The Marantz unit seems a little expensive at first glance, but I did notice a number of optical audio outputs on the back of the unit...
More detailed technical informations from either manufacturer sites, review sites or stores...My Pioneer DV-656A has spoilt me where that feature is concerned and the ability to truly render DVD-Audio via analog would have been a plus but all in all a good buy for my purposes which is watching a ton of Region 3 Shaolin DVDs...Very good player if compare to my old Yamaha s520(Philips...
I thought this YamahaDVD-S540 was a great DVD player, wonderful picture, etc, and was brilliant on my plasma...I was just foolish enough to spend a lot on it from the outset thinking it would last me a good long time...YamahaDVD-S540DVD Player Review in DVD Players at Review Centre...Read Trusted and Unbiased reviews of Yamaha...