Overview
DENON PROFESSIONAL’S VERSATILE DN-500BD BLU-RAY PLAYER RACK MOUNTED VERSION

The Denon Professional DN-500BD Blu-ray disc player is a compact, high performance unit that handles all popular optical video playback formats for unrivaled capability from a single disc playback device and is current to the 2017 product year.

The DN-500BD offers a tremendous amount of performance and flexibility in a space-saving single rack unit (1RU) chassis. It provides the wide range of connection and control capabilities that are essential to the professional user, making it ideal for use in corporate A/V, education, theaters, house of worship, and more. These include RS-232C and IP controllability and XLR balanced audio outputs.

The DN-500BD also has discrete 7.1 channel analog outputs for simple connection to amps, speaker systems or signal management devices. These outputs give you a direct feed to amplified loudspeakers for true 7.1 Surround Sound without the need for an additional decoder.

The Denon Professional DN-500BD will play virtually every Blu-ray, DVD, and audio CD format, making it easy to utilize multiple disc formats within a system. Supported formats include BD-Video, BD-R, BD-RE, DVD-Video, DVD-Audio, DVD+R, DVD+RW (Video mode, AVCHD format), DVD-R, DVD-RW (Video mode, AVCHD format) and Audio CD (CD-R, CD-RW). Using the built-in LAN port, users may optionally access additional content via BD Live. For even more versatility, a front-loading USB slot delivers access to MP3, WAV, FLAC, MP4, WMV, JPG, PNG, GIF files, and more.

In addition to its extremely high performance and wide range of format playback capabilities, the DN-500BD anticipates your requirements and operational patterns by providing features that maximize the unit’s ease of use.

The Denon Professional DN-500BD combines no-compromise performance, wide-ranging connection and control capability, and compatibility with virtually every disc format there is—all in a compact single rack space unit. Its unique combination of performance, versatility and compact size is ideally suited to the professional user.

Supported Disc Formats
Blu-ray Disc: BD25, BD50, BD-ROM, BD-R, BD-RE
DVD: DVD, DVD+R, DVD-R, DVD+RW, DVD-RW
CD: CD, CD-R, CD-RW, DTS Music Disc (DTS Audio CD, 5.1 Music Disc), HDCD, Super Video CD (SVCD), Video CD (VCD)

Supported File Formats

Video: .3gp, .asf, .avi, .dat, .divx, .mkv, .mov, .mp4, .mpg, .m2ts, .ogm, .rmvb, .tp, .ts, .wmv

Subtitles: .ass, .smi, .srt, .ssa, .sub

Audio: .ape, .flac, .m4a (AAC), .mp3, .wav, .wma

Picture: .gif, .jpg (or .jpeg), .png

Supported File Systems

FAT16, FAT32, NTFS
USB drive (mass storage class) with < 2 TB total capacity

Video
Resolutions Auto, 1080p 24/25/30/60, 1080i, 24/25/30/60,
720p, 480p/576p, 480i/576i

Aspect Ratios 16:9 Full, 16:9 Normal, 4:3 Pan & Scan, 4:3 Letterbox

HDMI Color Space: RGB PC Level, RGB Video Level, YCbCr (4:4:4), YCbCr 4:2:2

Output: HDMI > v1.4 (3D), HDCP 1.4

Decoding
Video: DivX 3, 4, 5, 6; DivX HD; MPEG-1; MPEG-2; MPEG-4; MPEG-4 AVC (H.264); VC-1 (Windows Media Video); Xvid
Audio: AAC; Dolby Digital; Dolby Digital Plus; Dolby TrueHD; DTS Digital Surround; DTS-HD; WMA

Audio
Analog Outputs
Output Level (balanced XLR): +4 dBu = +1.786 dBV
Output Level (unbalanced RCA): +6 dBV

Digital Output
Output Level (coaxial): 0.5V, 75Ω
Signal Format: AES/EBU

Surround Audio
DTS-Master Audio, DTS-HD High Resolution Audio, DTS Digital Surround, Dolby TrueHD, Dolby Digital (AC-3), Dolby Digital Plus (7.1ch)

Frequency Response: 20 Hz – 20 kHz (+0.5 dB)
Signal-to-Noise Ratio: > 100 dB (A-weighted)
Total Harmonic Distortion: < 0.05%
Dynamic Range: > 100 dB (A-weighted)
Headroom: 6 dB
Channel Separation: > 90 dB

Outputs
(2) XLR audio outputs (L/R, balanced)
(2) RCA audio outputs (L/R, unbalanced)
(8) RCA audio outputs (7.1 surround sound)
(1) Coaxial digital audio/visual output
(1) HDMI audio/visual output
(1) RJ-45 LAN port
(1) 9-pin D-Sub female RS-232C port
(1) IEC power connection

Communication
Remote Control
Infrared protocol, > 200 mV transmission output level

Serial Remote
Connector: 9-pin D-Sub female, RS-232C
Mode: Full duplex
Baud Rate: 9600 or 38400 bps (selectable)

Ethernet
Connector: LAN port
Standards: Ethernet (10 Mbps), Fast Ethernet (100 Mbps)

This is Denon's Top-of-the-Line unit.