I'm thinking of purchasing a 981HD for my Sony KDF-E60A20. My old player is a Panny F87 changer which has an incremental zoom feature that I really like a lot. How exactly does Oppo implement the picture zoom? Is it incermental like the Panny?

I'm thinking of purchasing a 981HD for my Sony KDF-E60A20. My old player is a Panny F87 changer which has an incremental zoom feature that I really like a lot. How exactly does Oppo implement the picture zoom? Is it incermental like the Panny?

Yes, it has several steps to 4x.

Zoomed image quality is not as good as unzoomed because the function does not use the Faroudja chip.

-Bill