I recently went through this same delima and at first I decided on a Denon 2900 which had recently been discontinued; really wanted this Universal Player and seached hard for a couple of weeks and could not find a new, used or refurb. My budget was $800 so I got a Denon 2910 and a Pioneer Elite 59AVi to compare; the Elite 58AVi was the better of the two and since Pioneer had just released the new 79AVi the price dropped so it was actually cheaper then the Denon.

59AVi Elites can be found on the Web for much less that their origional price of $1,800 which went down and stayed at $1,200 6 months after it's release. I paid around $700 for mine; it's a very nice Universal Player!