Video Asylum

Posted by PaulC (A) on May 18, 2005 at 15:51:39

In Reply to: analog picture quality posted by Joe Murphy Jr on May 17, 2005 at 20:07:50:

Well I can tell you that hooking it up to a high def LCD with the HDMI is amazing, but the component video is excellent and as good as any player I've had from $400 0n down. including the Toshiba SD4700
DVDA player from 2001 and the pioneer universal 563. and damn this is the only player that allows you to adjust the sharpness, bright, and contrast if need be. Short of that you would have to jump to the Denon at $600, or higher. If there is one out there that plays everything but sacd with this build quality and features like th Oppo
for $200 or less I want to know what it is? If you look at the DVD Benchmarks they all did very poor on the HDMI side compared to the Oppo and your right they didn't test it on composite, or component,but I wonder how many on the AVS forum have actually used this player. I bet not many. Its better than the Pioneer 563 and the toshiba sd 4700, oh and my sony dvd player. YMMV

PaulC