14 DAY TRIAL // Version 4 is the latest model of the 800 Optical Disc Player, which combines new software with a modified 'core' card complement offering a significant increase in the quality and flexibility of the system. The player series can play in high fidelity audio and video from both DVDs and CDs.
Meridian 800 Version 4 can play DVD-Video, DVD-Audio, CD Audio (Red Book), CD Video (White Book), MP3 and it's supplied with 1 x ATAPI 2x DVD ROM drive. The new VI00 Video Input card is included along with the recently-released VE12 HDMI/Progressive/Scaler/Component output card. These enable the 800 to be interfaced with a display via a single interconnect, the 800 providing video switching and scaling of internal and external video signals.
The VI00 provides two composite, two SVideo and one interlaced component video input, and allows analogue video sources to be converted to the common broadcast resolution standard digital video format that is used internally in the 800.
The VE12 provides HDMI output for compatible displays, and automatically connects with the display to determine the highest quality signal that can be provided by the player. The card also provides analogue progressive component video out.
800 uses Meridian's proprietary DSP software to provide on-board decoding for DTS, Dolby Digital and MPEG Audio, error correction, resolution enhancement, up and down-sampling and high-resolution digital gain control.
But all these performances don't come cheap, because Meridian 800 Version 4 is priced at about 20.000 USD.