With the Blu-ray format now experiencing a similar acceptance rate as DVD when it was rolled out, the consumer electronics community is now fully supporting the format with a variety of hardware. That support includes inexpensive products made for big-box stores, big name manufacturers that fill the middle market, and the high-performance channel. High-performance products typically start off as mainstream products but are redesigned with better digital-to-analog converters (DACs), more powerful DSP engines, more robust power supplies, heavier housing with more dampening, circuit path modifications, improved error reduction technologies, and improvements to the disc/tray loading mechanisms.

McIntosh Laboratory USA has entered the HD source era with its flagship MVP881, which incorporates a linear power supply, a fully balanced two-channel audio signal path, on-board multichannel audio decoding, BD Profile 2.0/BD-Live, HDMI 1.3 1080p/24fps and 1080p/60fps, and the ability to playback Blu-ray, DVD-Audio, DVD-video, SACD, CDs, and discs encoded with DivX, WMA and MP3 content.