Official OPPO BDP-83 Owner's Thread [technical talk only] - Page 69

Originally Posted by Fargus777

Is there a deadline for voting?

Originally Posted by Fargus777

Is there a deadline for voting?

Originally Posted by Neuromancer

The important number is 70% being for an increase in the Early Adoption Program. For this reason, a Yes percentage towards the required goal makes sense versus the actual percentage of votes.

Makes quick referencing the chart much easier.



All content types are shown on the front panel of the player. You can see all the different signal type icons on page 5 of the User's Manual.

Originally Posted by winston9332

From an email I received from Oppo, the extension of the EAP will begin as soon as that 70% supermajority has been reached. Thus, theoretically if the remaining 20 voters voted yes this afternoon, the EAP extension email could go out this afternoon. No pressure...

Originally Posted by yarrumc

I'd be willing to guess Thursday or Friday, at the earliest. I think there is still a few EAPers that just got their player in the last couple days. We could only hope something sooner would happen.

User Presets. User Presets would allow for multiple changes to the player with a single selection. Saves time adjusting individual sliders to meet specific feature requirements.

does the S&M disc have test tones?

Originally Posted by robertazimmerman

Did you notice at the very bottom....."We will offer 120v 50/60hz and 240v 50/60hz versions customized per the specifications of the customers needs, HD-SDI and Region free coming soon!"?

Also noteworthy for audio buffs: "-built in media player with direct audio transport, put a entire CD collection as uncompress .wav on a 1TB hard drive via USB and get audiophile grade digital transport quality"

[...]

They will be charging $999 for the unit.

Originally Posted by markrubin

The Spears & Munsil High-Definition Benchmark Blu-ray Edition is the one OPPO uses (and sells)

http://www.amazon.com/Spears-Munsil-..._ptcn_edpp_ttl

Originally Posted by MG428

I have just read Gary's review and noticed that one of the components he uses in his home theatre setup is DVDO iscan vp50pro, which is, to my knowledge, the best video processor out there.

He greatly praises BDP-83 but I was wondering something: Leaving the capabilities of BDP-83 due to being a player aside, would not all the video&audio qualities Gary point out in his review are the result of the vp50 pro? Correct me if I am wrong but would not the better video processing of vp50 pro bypass/outperform/or whatever the video processing of BDP-83? If so, would not the combination of vp50 pro and an ordinary blu-ray player (which can send high-rez sound formats via bitstream) perform the same with the combination of vp5-pro and BDP-83? Please bear in mind that, as I pointed out above, potential player's capabilities related to how it plays, for instance, load times et cetera are not considered in regard of my evaluation.

Originally Posted by Gary Murrell

the foundation for the PQ is the digital transporting of the Oppo to the scaler, if you read all my past BD player reviews on the HTF they were used the same way and there are differences in the PQ, a ordinary player and the VP50pro would under no circumstance equal the same as the Oppo + vp50pro

the decoder in the Oppo is simply the best, no doubt about it, along with the setup capability Oppo offers colorspace wise and source direct options you get a perfect image

-Gary

Originally Posted by MG428

Thank you Gary for sharing your first hand experience.

Originally Posted by elementBike

I'm a little puzzled why DVD directory structures on USB devices are not supported, when you consider that by its very nature the BDP-83's ability to decode iso/vob data is top notch via dvd disc. Is this a USB limitation? Or are there other issues I am missing? In the possible/future/maybe/hopeful implementation of ethernet streaming, would this directory structure limitation still persist?

I would love to play my backup copies of movies over USB or ethernet directly, without secondary conversions to other file formats. Would you consider adding this directory structure support to the "Features Request" list?

Originally Posted by elementBike

Sorry...typo... I met ifo not iso.

Originally Posted by elementBike

Well... in a way they are. How else would the OPPO play menus, chapters, special features, etc. on a DVD?

Originally Posted by Neuromancer

The reason why OPPO does not support ISO, BUP/IFO, or DVD-Video file structures is that such support is a direct calling card of "piracy". You may have legitimately backed up your DVDs onto a digital storage device (ie. External HDD) but OPPO does not want to be legally responsible if a copy holder is upset over this functionality.

Originally Posted by rdgrimes

The simple truth is that the Oppo is the best upscaling DVD player money can buy. There will always be people who report they can't see the difference. Just as there are always people who can't hear differences in different audio streams, etc, etc. And there are always people who don't have their monitors correctly calibrated too, and will never see all the fine detail and smooth color and grey gradients that the ABT2010 delivers. Lets not even get into all the different player setup errors that people can make. The BDP-83 is equal or better than the Oppo 983 for DVD scaling and de-interlacing. My personal opinion is that it is better, less mosquito noise.

Originally Posted by tnds

Previously I thought the Oppo site stated the 983 was being replaced with the BDP83. However, the 983 now shows up as being available.

With the EAP "Yes" votes now at 32%, have the plans for the replacement changed??

Originally Posted by elementBike

I'm a little puzzled why DVD directory structures on USB devices are not supported, when you consider that by its very nature the BDP-83's ability to decode ifo/vob data is top notch via dvd disc. Is this a USB limitation? Or are there other issues I am missing? In the possible/future/maybe/hopeful implementation of ethernet streaming, would this directory structure limitation still persist?

I would love to play my backup copies of movies over USB or ethernet directly, without secondary conversions to other file formats. Would you consider adding this directory structure support to the "Features Request" list?