Adds Kevin Zarow, Marantz marketing and product development VP: "With advanced audio and video reproduction capabilities, Blu-ray players are fast becoming essential for people who want to enjoy the very best in home entertainment. This holiday season, many people will be looking to upgrade their home theaters with state-of-the-art Blu-ray players. Our BD7004 and BD5004 multimedia Blu-ray players already offer one of the industry's best values in true high-performance, high-definition audio and video, and with our $100 rebate offer, they present an unmatched price/performance proposition."
The more expensive model features HDMI 1.3a ports, 36-bit deep color, Anchor Bay VRS Technology video scalers for upconversion, can play CDs, DVDs, SD, SDHC and mini and microSD cards.
Additionally, the player can play DivX and AVCHD files, either on flash drives, or on disc. The player has internal decoding for Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio.