Getting the best out of the audio is a natural area for Arcam. The DV27 features the latest 24bit/192kHz DACs from Wolfson Electronics, precision clock circuits and super clean power supplies to deliver stunning sound quality on CDs. It was important to push the video quality at the same time, and it is here where we have made the biggest breakthrough. The DV27 features a motion adaptive progressive scan system developed by Silicon Image. This sophisticated technology has been developed to enhance the video performance from a standard DVD, when used with a suitable display device. The result is a picture that gets remarkably close to film in its richness and stability. The majority of plasma screens and video projectors can accept a progressive scan input, in addition to an increasing number of high specification TVs. The bigger the picture, the more benefit to be seen from progressive scan. The DV27 is the first machine that will process the 625/50Hz video signals used in Europe, as well as the 525/50 signals used in North America, although due to copy protection issues it has yet to be licenced for use with 625/50 signal sources.

The computing power inside the Silicon Image video processor is in many ways the equivalent of a high specification Pentium processor and is considered by the experts in this field to be the state of the art solution. The quality of the result is truly impressive with images so real they help draw you into to the movie.

The DV27's AV and DSP (digital signal processing) sections feature four layer printed circuit boards which enable optimum ground paths, that in turn give ultra low noise performance on both audio and video. The modular construction of the DV27 will also allow you to upgrade the player for DVD Audio replay in the future, by replacing one of the player's circuit boards.