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Posted by Bill's News on 09/29/81 11:54
robert.drea@gmail.com wrote:
> Mike wrote:
>> This unit gets good reviews.
>> http://www.oppodigital.com/OPPO-News.html anyone have any
>> first hand
>> knowledge/experiences? I am particularly interested in video
>> performance via the component outputs. Thanks.
>
> I bought one recently. I'd been looking for something that
> plays
> _everything_, has no layer change delay, and good image
> quality.
>
> I believe that the upsampling functionality only works via
> HDMI,
> rather than component. So admittedly I have not really spent
> much
> time with component on this unit.
>
> However - a few other points which may be of interest...
>
> -The upsampling does make a discernable difference, but only
> with
> 'reference' type stuff like 5th Element, and likely stuff like
> Pixar
> flicks, where there's lots of really precise images.
>
> -720p looks good - 1080i - not sure; I think I'm seeing the
> interlacing taking place. Certainly not much benefit of 1080
> over
> 720, for a non-HD source.
>
Being relatively new to this myself, I have a question regarding
this statement:
Wouldn't the native resolution of the screen prevail here? If
one has a 720p screen, then that should be the resizing
specified, if one has a 1080p screen, then 1080i should be the
minimum targeted. Otherwise, the 720 image would have to be
resized by the display?
So far, I'm only able to fiddle with this sort of stuff via the
Motorola cable-HDVR and there is no way that having that box
output non-HD material at 720p looks as good as 1080i on a
Westinghouse 42" 1920x1080p display. As a result of this
observation I exclude 720 from the HDVR's knowledge of the
display.
The OPPO I've ordered should be here soon, so I guess I can know
the answer then, as far as that device combination goes?
> -With every player I've used so far, I have had to change an
> aspect
> ratio setting on the TV each time I put in a widescreen disk.
> With
> this player, using the HDMI interface, it seems to lock into
> the
> correct aspect, saving me that step. I'll try it with shows I
> know to
> be of different aspect ratios, to be sure.
>
> -Plays everything I've thrown at it, so far. One Divx file
> showed
> occasional graphical corruption, and the artifacting looked a
> little
> stronger than on my Pioneer player - but I realized later on
> that I'd
> neglected to set the brightness and contrast on my TV for that
> particular input (these settings are not global on my TV), so
> it was
> really set rather bright. This was likely part of the issue
> there, at
> least for the artifacting - I'll have to try more DivX stuff
> to see
> about the corruption.
>
> -One Divx file had two types of subtitle files in the
> directory (.sub
> and .srt, I think) - whenever a bit of sub text appeared, the
> screen
> went nuts. Completely scrambled. On another Divx file, which
> had only
> one type of subtitle file, the display was fine and the
> subtitles
> worked. Have to nail that one down yet.
>
> -Plays Dual Layer +R disks. SWEET. When I did the burn (Batman
> Returns), the software griped that I hadn't actively assigned
> a layer
> change point. But, I noticed no change delay at all on
> playback.
>
> -Normally when I power off a player, the tray retracts on its
> own. Not
> in this case. The tray just sat stuck out. Weird. Retracts
> fine if I
> hit the 'tray' button, but the power-off doesn't pull it back
> in.
> Mildly weird. Could be a firmware thing.
>
> -Fast forward, until you go to about 8x, appears to catch
> almost every
> frame - so it feels very smooth, rather than jerky like in
> most
> players, updating every quarter-second or whatever.
>
> -There are also regularly-updated supported firmwares, and a
> non-supported community as well. Last rev was in March of this
> year.
> So people are still tweaking it. I thought I'd read that this
> unit
> might see 1080p with an upcoming firmware, but who knows - and
> again,
> for non-HD, I can see no difference between 720 and 1080.
>
> -All in all, I'm happy.
Thanks for the rest of the info regarding the OPPO too.
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