RE: To cheap or not to cheap, that is the question!

Posted by cfraser (A) on March 4, 2010 at 15:23:12

In Reply to: RE: To cheap or not to cheap, that is the question! posted by Jazz Inmate on March 4, 2010 at 11:24:28:

I was trying to only keep quite repeatable things as "bugs". There are no doubt lots of individual circumstances with specific discs that I wouldn't know about. I have one DVD with a manufacturing "glitch" that ONLY plays through in the BDP-83, so can go either way. Also there are self-made DVDs of all descriptions and formats I couldn't comment on.

Something like the Star Trek BD Dolby TrueHD dropout while bitstreaming is a bug of some sort, but is very unrepeatable, both in duration and location. Still, it's noticed by just about everybody to some extent (my only dropout was for less than 0.5s). I forgot about that bug above. [My PS3 is "old" and doesn't bitstream TrueHD so no problem with that player.]
Edit: Oppo is still looking into this one, being not identically repeatable makes it more difficult to nail down.

To me the most annoying thing is the propensity for lockups. This happens way too often IMO; I have DVD players I've used for years that it never happened once, and never happens with my PS3. It's something to do with the HDMI handshaking, and is most likely to happen when changing disc formats (least for me). Edit: Oppo is well aware of the lockups and apparently has an improvement or fix for the next FW release. Otherwise, power-cycling does it.

The thing that annoys me second most is when fast-forwarding at certain speeds past a chapter stop on a DVD: the player can jump ahead 1 or 2 chapter stops. This is very repeatable, been going on for a long time, and hard to believe they haven't fixed it by now. Doesn't happen with BDs. [I watch lots of TV DVDs, and like to skip past the opening credits, and many don't have a chapter stop at the end of them...so I see this bug a lot.] Since I bought the "premium" BDP-83 for DVD (IMO it's the only thing it does significantly better than my other players, via HDMI), I wish they'd pay a little more attention to fixing the other minor DVD bugs too. I do realise DVD (and CD) are the least "sexy" aspects of the player for many people, but the DVD ability is a/the major selling point of this player over some others HT-wise so should be attended to.

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Topic - To cheap or not to cheap, that is the question! - late 18:10:25 03/03/10 (15)

RE: To cheap or not to cheap, that is the question! - claud 06:54:40 03/07/10 (0)

RE: To cheap or not to cheap, that is the question! - Ben Van Dyk 08:14:48 03/05/10 (2)

I went back to stereo... So I want a halfway decent analog output section (nt) - late 09:03:00 03/05/10 (1)

RE: I went back to stereo... So I want a halfway decent analog output section (nt) - Ben Van Dyk 10:26:57 03/05/10 (0)

The only reason to get the 83SE is if you will be using the Oppo for two-channel - Jazz Inmate 11:22:51 03/04/10 (2)

Is there a better player if I want to use the Multichannel analog outputs ? - oscar 05:40:35 03/05/10 (1)

There are various mod'ed versions of the SE and also the Marantz UD9004 NT - Jazz Inmate 09:30:04 03/05/10 (0)

RE: To cheap or not to cheap, that is the question! - Javier 10:37:37 03/04/10 (0)

Bugs? - Jack G 05:00:47 03/04/10 (0)

Oppo BDP-83? - Mossback 03:29:28 03/04/10 (0)

RE: To cheap or not to cheap, that is the question! - cfraser 20:42:45 03/03/10 (2)

RE: To cheap or not to cheap, that is the question! - Jazz Inmate 11:24:28 03/04/10 (1)

RE: To cheap or not to cheap, that is the question! - cfraser 15:23:12 03/04/10 (0)

Lots of moderate ($200-$300) priced Blue ray players get good reviews - Road Warrior 19:39:29 03/03/10 (1)

I went bottom-end on Sony with 5.1 outputs (S550) as a stopgap player. - oscar 09:10:44 03/05/10 (0)

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