Yamaha DVD-S2500 Info

Greetings,

Does anyone know if the Yamaha DVD-S2500 is shipping to the US yet? The local AV stores which carry Yamaha (Good Guys) don't have any in stock and act like they've never heard of it. They do of course say they have the 2300 MkII, which I'm not interested in.

They did have the 1500 which I tried just before Halloween, but then returned. It was a great sounding player and the video looked good (I'm still on S-vid), but I took it back because the display was too simple, the remote stunk and the fast forward/rev was a pain to use. And Yamaha announced the 2500 just a couple days afterwards.

One more question, has anyone compared this to the Denon 2910? I have a Yamaha RX-V3000 and would like to stay with Yamaha, but I'll consider the Denon 2910 if it's better than the 2500.

Thanks for your help!

The last known report for the Yamaha s2500 dvd player is they will show it at CES in Vegas in Jan 2005 and ship to stores in Feb 2005.

Troy

Thanks Troy. I thought it was shipping now, but I can't find it anywhere. It would be nice of Yamaha USA to say when they will ship. I'm sure the local A/V guys would appreciate my not calling them each week asking them if they have it yet.

I have the Yamaha DVD-S2300 and compared to others the color is better but the sound is simply great in SACD mode, the remote is clunky and so is the interface and it it doesnt read scratched media that well like a Pioneer or Phillips.

Our Yamaha rep says soon soon, we've got a few on order, but in the meantime we wait with our 2 remaining 2300mkII. To compare the current models out there. The 1500 has much better video than the 2300mkII, due to the faruja (sp?) video processing. The DVDs1500 is no comparison to the audio of the 2300 . I'm stoked about the new one coming out but i hope the audio is up to par with the 2300 or better, especially since its coming out less expensive than the 2300mkII.

In Stock - Web Listing

The Yamaha DVD-S2500 appears to be listed in stock now.

See link:
http://www.legacyaudiovideo.com/yadvdvdauand.html

Thanks for the link Ted. Hopefully that MSRP of $749 can be beat by at least $100.

OK, January is here. My local store still doesn't have an ETA. Has anyone bought this unit yet? Any reviews?

Street Pricing

I'm also waiting for pricing to come down to $649 to match with my Yamaha RX-V2500. Hopefully, when vendors begin having a quantity of them in-stock, competitive street pricing will become available at least by February.

Yamaha still hasn't shipped this unit yet, at least as far as I can tell. Has anyone seen it? I'm starting to think this is just a big ploy by Yamaha to prevent people from buying other products.

Heck, it's been on their website since early November and you still can't buy the sucker anywhere.

Negative points to Yamaha for making us wait so long.

2 of these were on Ebay and sold in 2 days for $625 each. They went fast. Hopefully we will see more soon.

The local Good Guys rep here just told me they expect this unit to arrive in their distribution centers on Feb 28th and to be in their stores early March. I guess that meets the "will ship in Feb" scuttlebutt.

Well, we've waited this long, what's another three or four weeks?

Got to hand it to Yamaha. I wonder how many Denon 2910 or equivalent competitor's unit sales they snuffed out by putting the unit up on their websites over three months before anyone could buy one?

I sure hope it's worth the wait, and the $$.

Still no sightings here. Anyone found this, better still, used it yet?

An email from Yamaha: "You are looking at late March early April for release of the s2500 dvd player. If you have any more questions please feel free to contact us at our toll free Customer Support line. 1-800-292-2982 Hours: Monday Thru Friday 8 AM to 4 PM Pacific time."

My guess it will be more like late April.

Heck by May Denon and other manufacturors will announce new players for fall 2005 and they may have dvd players under $1,000 with firewire like this Yamaha.

I'm surprised Yamaha has delayed the arrival so long. We were expecting this in January, then Feb, etc. and now it could be April.

Makes you wonder if they are having problems with it. And I agree, the other competitors will have their next generation out before we know it.

I was contacted by a Yamaha rep and he told me that the DVDS2500 will be shipping on April 1st. Went to my local Good Guys and they advised me they should get it April 7th or so. He checked the system and notified my they had some in their main distribution center in SF. Retail price: $699 I reserved mine with a 10% down payment.

jj

Yes, I received the same info from my GG rep today. They have 100 units on order and should have them by mid-April. Not sure if she meant their store (Sunnyvale, CA) is getting 100, or that's for a group of stores or what...

According to a Yamaha representitive at the NYC HTE show, it will not be out until the 2nd week of June 2005.

tedmjr2 said:

The Yamaha DVD-S2500 appears to be listed in stock now.

See link:
http://www.legacyaudiovideo.com/yadvdvdauand.html

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talked to them, they wanted me to pre order!

I wonder what is taking this product to come out. I am assuming that Yamaha is making sure everything is up to par to compete with other products.

Can't wait for it to come out.

jj

I'm seriously considering giving up on this product. I've never, ever seen such a misleading product release and it's very suspicious as to what the hold up is.

We were expecting this thing to come out in January at the latest. Now it's mid-May and they are still not on the shelves? Yet you can still go the website and look at all the cool features they say it has. Something has got to be fundamentally wrong with the product that a simple code update can't fix.