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perform seamless layer changes with them.

But at about half a second, the pause is barely

noticeable anyway.

Regular 1080p/24 Blu-ray content was

delivered beautifully over HDMI, which

is pretty much what you expect with any

Blu-ray player. The bigger challenge is with

Australian 1080i/50 Blu-rays and Australian

576i/50 DVDs. Encouragingly, within the

player’s set-up menu it had a choice to set

deinterlacing mode to Auto, Film or Video.

On DVD the Auto mode performed some

cadence detection that worked reasonably

well, although it was tricked by some of my

torture test clips. On 1080i/50 Blu-ray, the

cadence detection seemed quite out of action

on two of my three test clips, but then worked

perfectly on the third.

All imperfections there, though, were easily

forgiven because the Video and Film modes

lived up to their names. They weren’t mere

suggestions but acted forcefully. Film mode

in particular wove fields together to make

frames, come what may. If you’re watching

95% of PAL DVDs or 1080i/50 Blu-ray discs

(e.g. Pulp Fiction), just select this and you will

get perfect performance.

Other nice capabilities were the effective

audio decoding of HD channels to PCM, even

when secondary audio was in operation. Oddly,

though, this did downconvert 6.1-channel

DTS-HD Master Audio to 5.1-channel PCM.

There are also nice information displays,

including an audio bit-rate display on ‘On

Screen’ menu!

So what kind of player is this unit based

on? As mentioned, there was nothing obvious

in the menus to tie it in with any other player,

but there were clues. The transport controls

were one such: the player’s controls were

excellent. There were five fast-forward and

five fast-reverse speeds, and four slow-forward

and four-slow reverse speeds. Note, those slow

reverse speeds worked on Blu-ray as well as

DVD, which is a rare feature in Blu-ray players

(only Sony, high-end Pioneer and one other

range offer this). Likewise for frame stepping:

both forwards and reverse are available. That

makes it much easier to find that exact frame

you wish to examine closely.

amaha has had an interesting range

of Blu-ray players over the years. It

is one of those companies (and it is

by no means the only one) that has

used Blu-ray tech from other companies at its

players’ cores, tweaking them to best work in

a Yamaha system. The first Yamaha player I

looked at was clearly based on Panasonic, for

example, with similar menus and functions.

The next two, a couple of years later, were

based on the Sharp platform.

But what about the Yamaha BD-S671? The

menu system had hints from here and there,

but there was nothing readily identifiable.

In the end it was the usability features — the

top-of-class usability features we should add

— which provided the hint, and made this the

best Yamaha Blu-ray player yet.

EQUIPMENT

As Yamaha’s entry-level unit, those features

don’t make for exciting headlines, so it looks

pretty much to be a basic Blu-ray player.

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Of course it does everything you’d expect,

supporting BD-Live and BonusView, output-

ting at 1080p/24, upscaling DVDs to 1080p,

delivering high definition audio as a bitstream

or decoded to multichannel PCM. Most

importantly, it also supports Blu-ray 3D.

And of course, a Yamaha entry-level player

is rather more substantial than a typical entry-

level player. It weighs a full three kilograms

and is elegantly finished, except perhaps for

the front USB socket which sits exposed.

At the back the twin-pin power cord is

removable, and there is component and

composite video and stereo audio. Both forms

of digital audio output are provided. Most of

these will be eschewed in favour of the HDMI

output. Wi-Fi is not supported, so you will need

an Ethernet connection to use the advanced

network features. There is another USB socket

at the rear. It is up to the user to supply the

persistent storage required for BonusView

and BD-Live operation — just plug a 1GB or

more USB memory stick into this back USB

(the front USB is also supported, but this

would be a perilous location for permanently

attached memory in most cases). The stick can

be formatted suitably by the player.

The remote control is cleanly laid out, if a

little plain in styling. The player also supports

Yamaha’s iPhone/iPod touch control app.

This also works on the iPad.

Component video output is limited to

480i/60 and 576i/50 from Blu-ray, thanks to

silly Blu-ray rules. Note: it will deliver 480p/60

and 576p/50 when playing back DVDs —

another silly consequence of these rules!

PERFORMANCE

In one regard, it seemed at first as if this

player was like a throwback to the early days

of Blu-ray players: it was very slow to get its

disc tray open when it was in standby mode.

Pressing the ‘Open/Close’ key on the unit

to fire it up left me standing there with disc

in hand for 24 seconds waiting for the tray

to open. Unlike last year’s Yamaha Blu-ray

players, there is no ‘Quick Start’ mode, not

that such a thing is actually necessary with

sensible design.

But after writing most of this review, I

swapped this player out in favour of Yamaha’s

higher-cost BD-A1010 player, which in so

many ways is similar to this one. One differ-

ence was that the BD-A1010 opened its tray in

eight seconds, not 24. A week later I switched

out the BD-A1010 and returned this player,

and lo and behold it was also opening its tray

in eight seconds. There had been no firmware

update. So that’s a puzzle; the good news is

that it performed consistently in this way for

the remainder of the review period.

Otherwise, the player is a fairly speedy

performer anyway. It loaded my standard test

discs in times only a few seconds longer than

TEST FIRMWARE: 1.2505

OUTPUTS: 1 x HDMI, 1 x component video,

1 x composite video, 0 x S-Video, 1 x

optical digital audio, 1 x coaxial digital

audio, 1 x stereo analogue audio

OTHER: 1 x Ethernet port, 2 x USB,

1 x Remote In, 1 x Remote Out

DIMENSIONS (whd): 435 x 86 x 257mm

WEIGHT: 3.0kg

WARRANTY: Two years

CONTACT: Yamaha Music Australia

TEL: 1300 739 411

WEB: www.yamahamusic.com.au

• Perfect progressive scan

conversion available

• Excellent transport controls

• Can change some ‘Setup’

options while play continues

• DVD layer change not seamless

• No Wi-Fi

• Component output limited to SD

VERDICT

Yamaha BD-S671

Blu-ray player

Price: $349

the record holders — 18 seconds for the dual-

layer disc without BD-Java, 21 seconds for the

single-layer disc with BD-Java.

We’ll return to disc spinning shortly, but

first let’s look at new media support.

One of the cool things about consumer

technology is that at the same time that it is

getting cheaper, it is getting more powerful.

So with this unit, which is available for not

that much more than a budget player, you get

full service DNLA support. By full service I

mean that you get photos and video along with

music. Likewise you get all three media types

from USB devices. The formats supported

include MP3 and standard WMA for audio.

Yamaha says WAV in the manual, but

standard CD-quality WAV files wouldn’t play

for me. For photos you get JPG and (although

not stated in the manual) PNG. Video includes

DivX (although my standard clip wouldn’t

play) and WMV. It also played my SD and HD

MPEG2 clips, and AVI.

The video playback was nicely implemented

in the sense of being treated the same as

disc video. The unit’s deinterlacing circuitry

treated this content with respect, attempting

to process it according to its film or video

status. This is how multimedia video ought to

be treated, but so often isn’t.

The other network-media based offering

it provides is YouTube video. This was a

strange implementation. On first start-up

it dropped me full screen directly into clip

called ‘SHOPPING CENTERS!’ which was

some kind of comedic X-rated rant of which

every third word was of four letters and

starting with ‘F’ or ‘C’. This seemed to be on

the Most Viewed list when I checked with

my computer. Thus are the perils of random

access to YouTube — I’m not sure autoplay

is a particularly good idea. Be ready to hit the

‘STOP’ key when you first go on, then you

can press the up arrow to search or the down

arrow to browse by category.

Now when it came to playing discs —

Blu-ray and DVD — this player is about as

good as it gets, and is far better than last year’s

Yamahas. About the only criticism on this

front is that it would be nice if it read ahead

and buffered dual-layer DVDs so that it could

Yamaha

BD-S671

Blu-ray player

Price: $349

There are also a full range of ‘Repeat’

functions which work on DVD and Blu-ray,

including A/B repeat.

But what really narrowed things down was

a last extremely rare capability: the ‘Setup’

menu can be popped up over the top of the

video as it is playing. You can change video

resolution and quite a few other settings —

including the deinterlacing mode — on the fly

without interrupting playback. (Unfortunately

the audio settings are blocked in this mode.)

CONCLUSION

Still, that capability nailed it: while not based

on any particular brand, it does seem to be

based on the same generic platform upon

which the Cambridge Audio and Oppo Digital

players are based. Since these are both highly

reputable brands that sell for prices nudging a

thousand dollars, the Yamaha BD-S671 is not

only a fine player, but exceptional value for

money. Stephen Dawson

“when it came to playing discs — Blu-ray and

DVD — this player is about as good as it gets,

and is far better than last year’s Yamahas...”

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