New in the August Issue of On Sound and Music, the latest take on a
Universal Player that just may be the best Single Box All Format Player
today, the McCormack UDP-1.

Take a look at http://www.onsoundandmusic.com/issue...408-UDP-1.html.

Much more at On Sound and Music, mixing the best of the High End with the
Best of Pro Sound http://www.onsoundandmusic.com.

The McCormack UDP-1 Universal Disc Player
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New in the August Issue of On Sound and Music, the latest take on a
Universal Player that just may be the best Single Box All Format Player
today, the McCormack UDP-1.

Take a look at http://www.onsoundandmusic.com/issue...408-UDP-1.html.

Much more at On Sound and Music, mixing the best of the High End with the
Best of Pro Sound http://www.onsoundandmusic.com.

If you have the time and strength of stomach, pPlease take a look at the
picture of the interior of the this *amazing* DVD player
http://www.onsoundandmusic.com/index...8-UDP-1.html&2
(Figure 3).

What I see is the transport and major circuit cards of a commodity player
(center, lower right), back-ended by MacCormack's *SOTA contributions*.
Those appear to be a power supply board and output buffer board, both
stylishly decorated with large film capacitors. Ironically, a switchmode
power supply, probably belonging to the original commodity player appears
to be standing up vertically, between the two MacCormack-sourced boards.

Perhaps someone who services a variety of mainstream DVD players could ID
the actual source of the majority of the guts of this device. They could be
from an APEX, for all I know... or maybe the Pioneer universal DVD player
that sells for under $200.

This could be one way to beat the high development costs usually associated
with manufacturing a DVD player - scrap out a good mainstream box, and
repackage
the guts with some snake-oil wrapped around it, so that high end reviewers
can feel comfortable with it. Oh, and jack up the price by a factor of say,
50?