Thanks for the suggestion - I am not sure I want to go Blue Ray just yet but the 'smaller' brother of your player, the DV-980H sounds like just the thing I am looking for. Cheers, ciske

I must admid that I did not know that you can spent 10k Euro upwards just for a dvd player. And of course I would never ever dare to connect a pair of cheap speakers such as the 8000 to a player like that. At least not without cables woven from pure gold :) Ahem... thanks for the answer but this was not the 'small solution' I was looking for

Hi, I recently got my hands on pair of Beolap 8000 speakers. The rest of my stereo / video equipment is rather antique and my knowledge about these matters is virtually non existent. So while I will one day own a very cool surround sounding blue ray beaming multimedia ... aeh... thing ... I currently do not have the time to compare pros and cons of