LOL!
Here are some pics:
Remote (better design than last year IMO, white back light looks better than orange and the button press is better)
Front (actual buttons instead of the flush mount, nice that eject button is back lit now)
Bach pics:
Info image of input data from Directv (top), and output data to plasma (bottom)
Im currently running the Directv HDDVR on Native (480i, 720p, 1080i) into the HDMI In on the back, with the HDMI 1 out to the plasma and the HDMI 2 out to the Marantz. I have the Oppo set to 1080p/60 out and bitstream audio. It seems to be working real well as a "video processor", image is real good, but I'm not gonna get into it vs. the plasma processing. My thinking is, a lot of these CE devices don't do everything properly, but usually most things. I have more faith the Oppo/Marvell implementation is going to give the most I can get out of scaling and deinterlacing the signal, as opposed to the plasma.
Of course for Blu-ray, video is fed out of HDMI 1 at 1080p/60 to the plasma, and lossless audio is bitstreamed from HDMI 2 to the Marantz. My first impressions are it looks real similar to the 93, and they seem to have tweaked a few things (remote and front buttons) for the better. It is very very fast, the menus fly and even on the "slow start" mode it powers up fast as hell. My only complaint right now is that once it is powered off, and then powered back on, you have to change it's input back to HDMI In Back to get Directv video back, I hope they will change this in the future where it will stay on whatever input you turn it off on.
One small annoyance is that when using HDMI In Back, the front screen scrolls that data, but it is easily fixed by hitting the Dimmer button on the remote and just cutting off all the front lights/display. I'll try and get some speed tests for load times, with the data I already have, so we can see how it compares.
