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post #33361 of 38733
8/23/10 at 7:44pm
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Originally Posted by meriadec View Post

My BD83 started to act up again. It delivers a very loud whirling sound, audio dropouts and video freezes when playing "Kill Bill vol 1 & 2" double feature BD from Alliance. It also exhibits a whirling sound with "Tai Chi Master" another Alliance disk. No issues with CD, SACD,DVD disks and other BDs.
I switched back to my old Panny BD30 and it plays those problem disks flawlessly. I have had my Oppo since February this year and use it very moderately. I recall that it once exhibited this strange behaviour when first viewing "The Dark Knight" after I had hit stop and it tried to resume. But it read fine the next day. Not the case with these two BDs. It can't be the disks as the Panny handles them fine. Btw these are purchased new, not rentals.
Wondering if anyone else having problems with Oppo BD83 reading these disks?

Regards,

Mériadec

I'm having a whirring/vibrating issue with IP Man Blu-ray disk. I recorded the sound it makes with IP Man and another disk that plays normally.

I sent the disk to Oppo and they said it was working normally in their test players. They also bought the same disk from Amazon and tried that disk as well and said they both worked fine in their players. They swapped disks with me and sent me their Amazon copy. It does the same thing in my player.

All other disks play fine including CD, SACD, DVD-A, SD DVDs, and other Blu-ray disks.

I tried to send Oppo the recordings but they said they didn't get them. There SPAM filter must have hijacked them. They are .flv files. PM me with your email and I can send you the recordings if you want to here what it sounds like for comparison.
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post #33362 of 38733
8/24/10 at 6:08am
Anybody else find their player runs warmer then most?
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post #33363 of 38733
8/24/10 at 7:10am
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Originally Posted by PSBMAN View Post

Anybody else find their player runs warmer then most?

Got nothing with which to compare it except an Onkyo 805 receiver, and it's down-right cold compared to that
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post #33364 of 38733
8/24/10 at 7:15am
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Originally Posted by PSBMAN View Post

Anybody else find their player runs warmer then most?

Nope! I find that when the movie is over, the disc is barely elevated above room temperature. The only thing I have to compare was the Marantz DV8400 the OPPO replaced and it did run warmer than the OPPO. I don't think I've ever heard the fan running though most often the volume levels would probably drown it out.
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post #33365 of 38733
8/24/10 at 8:08am
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Originally Posted by Torqdog View Post

Nope! I find that when the movie is over, the disc is barely elevated above room temperature. The only thing I have to compare was the Marantz DV8400 the OPPO replaced and it did run warmer than the OPPO. I don't think I've ever heard the fan running though most often the volume levels would probably drown it out.

I think i may have a problem, as it is quite warm after i finish a Blu ray.
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post #33366 of 38733
8/24/10 at 8:22am
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Originally Posted by PSBMAN View Post

I think i may have a problem, as it is quite warm after i finish a Blu ray.

Do you have it in an enclosure of some sort or is there plenty of room for air circulation?
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post #33367 of 38733
8/24/10 at 8:36am
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Originally Posted by generalhead View Post

Do you have it in an enclosure of some sort or is there plenty of room for air circulation?

About 1" on top and open all around. Not enclosed.
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post #33368 of 38733
8/24/10 at 8:48am
PSBMAN:
do you have it on the top shelf or bottom?

Jacob
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post #33369 of 38733
8/24/10 at 8:55am
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Originally Posted by PSBMAN View Post

About 1" on top and open all around. Not enclosed.

The top of the case is a big part of it's heat dissipation scheme. 1" is a bit close, but it should be OK. The fan will come on if it's needed and protect the hardware.
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post #33370 of 38733
8/24/10 at 8:58am
One true fact about electronics is that within a year after purchase, it's obsolete (other than amps and maybe some speakers) . That's the price of being on the leading edge. I have been very happy with the 83 and was very hopeful of its DLNA possibilities. I think I will have to give up the ghost on that one. If the Dune is for real, than WOW...

http://dune-hd.com/hd_players/curren...ne-hd-max.html
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post #33371 of 38733
8/24/10 at 9:16am
PSBMAN wrote:

"Anybody else find their player runs warmer then most?"

When ejecting consert Bly-Ray after playing 2-3 hours in my OPPO BDP-83, the disk is HOT.
I feel it must be 40-45 ºC or 104-113 ºF. The fan is running when I stop the disk.

I also has "About 1" on top and open all around. Not enclosed".

Maybe this is the reason???
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post #33372 of 38733
8/24/10 at 9:19am
I posted here that I was having problems with the player not responding to the remote...Thought I should post an update.

Oppo sent a message that they couldn't replicate the issue I was having. Said the remote would control the player.

Had a couple of e-mail exchanges discussing the problem. They ended up sending me a new player........at least that is what they said. Looks new.

This player does respond to the remote and my universal remote but will not work with my IR hub. Same as before. I'll try a new hub and see if that does the trick.

Oppo was pretty fair about the whole deal. I had the player for 13 months and they took care of it. Can't find anything to complain about,
of course I didn't have a damaged box to worry about
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post #33373 of 38733
8/24/10 at 9:28am
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Originally Posted by Ernstmach View Post

of course I didn't have a damaged box to worry about

I'd demand they send you a new one anyway. I wonder how much it costs to send a double-boxed empty box?
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post #33374 of 38733
8/24/10 at 9:39am
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Originally Posted by PSBMAN View Post

Anybody else find their player runs warmer then most?

Is your player doing the decoding or are you bitstreaming?

If you set the player to output pcm(decode) it will get
hot, especially when it's a DTS HD MA track.
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post #33375 of 38733
8/24/10 at 10:07am
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Originally Posted by petmic10 View Post

Is your player doing the decoding or are you bitstreaming?

If you set the player to output pcm(decode) it will get
hot, especially when it's a DTS HD MA track.

I have it bitstreaming to my Onkyo 805.
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post #33376 of 38733
8/24/10 at 10:12am
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Originally Posted by Ernstmach View Post

I posted here that I was having problems with the player not responding to the remote...Thought I should post an update.

Oppo sent a message that they couldn't replicate the issue I was having. Said the remote would control the player.

Had a couple of e-mail exchanges discussing the problem. They ended up sending me a new player........at least that is what they said. Looks new.

This player does respond to the remote and my universal remote but will not work with my IR hub. Same as before. I'll try a new hub and see if that does the trick.

Oppo was pretty fair about the whole deal. I had the player for 13 months and they took care of it. Can't find anything to complain about,
of course I didn't have a damaged box to worry about

Sounds like they were more than fair, considering that there was probably nothing wrong with the player. It seems pretty clear the issue lies in the IR hub and/or third-party remote you're using.
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post #33377 of 38733
8/24/10 at 10:19am
A number of region-free mods have been mentioned here. Is there any consensus as to which is best? As I recall, the one at bluraychip was given pretty high marks, but are they all basically the same thing? (I think that's the only one I've noticed that offers an option for RS-232 control.)
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post #33378 of 38733
8/24/10 at 10:32am
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Originally Posted by progprog View Post

Sounds like they were more than fair....

What other company would go so far out of their way with a unit that is past the warranty date? Of course they couldn't replicate a problem...it probably didn't have one to begin with and the OP admitted to that! Great work Oppo!
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post #33379 of 38733
8/24/10 at 11:06am
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Originally Posted by dtblair View Post

One true fact about electronics is that within a year after purchase, it's obsolete (other than amps and maybe some speakers) . That's the price of being on the leading edge. I have been very happy with the 83 and was very hopeful of its DLNA possibilities. I think I will have to give up the ghost on that one. If the Dune is for real, than WOW...

http://dune-hd.com/hd_players/curren...ne-hd-max.html

Sorry. Count me out on the Dune: no SACD. But, good luck with that.
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post #33380 of 38733
8/24/10 at 11:29am
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Originally Posted by fitzcaraldo215 View Post

Sorry. Count me out on the Dune: no SACD. But, good luck with that.

Ya, no thanks on that one......but i hear a remake of the movie is in the works
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post #33381 of 38733
8/24/10 at 11:43am
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Originally Posted by fitzcaraldo215 View Post

Sorry. Count me out on the Dune: no SACD. But, good luck with that.

I'm becoming convinced that there is no single device that will do everything I want. Nor do I really want one because then it gets really expensive upgrading those all-in-one units. I have my BDP-83 as my disc player. I plan to keep it for that and I'll find another device to provide the streaming services I want, with the Dune HD Smart D1 being the device I have my eye on at the moment.
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post #33382 of 38733
8/24/10 at 11:50am
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Originally Posted by dtblair View Post

One true fact about electronics is that within a year after purchase, it's obsolete (other than amps and maybe some speakers) .

~Some~ speakers? Sorry, but I don't believe speakers go obsolete quickly at all. My B&W Matrix 800 series speakers are still perfectly usable thank you very much as are most decent speakers made in the last 20 years or so.
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post #33383 of 38733
8/24/10 at 12:47pm
I have owned my Oppo 83 for about two weeks now and its great except for one issue. Fist when I hooked it up the sound kept cutting out when using the calibration audio disc. About every 5 seconds the sound would cut out but the picture played fine and noting indicated on the player or my receiver that it wasn't getting a single. So I pulled my HDMI cable that I was using which was a monoprice top of the line cable that was less than two years old and tried another cable.

After swapping out that HDMI cable for the cable that came with the Oppo the sound issue was gone. However during the playback of any Blu Ray the picture seems to hiccup every now and then at least 15+ times per movie. It doesn't freeze up anything it just seems to judder for a split second every few minutes. I made all my changes in the players set up menu and it still happens so I then reset the factory setting and it still happens. Any ideas on what is happening with this? My PS3, HD DVD and other Blu Ray player all play fine on my system but not the Oppo. I also update the firmware to the latest version with no better results. It almost seems like a HDMI handshake issue but all my components are pretty new and should be capable of handling this.

Currently I run the Oppo to my Marantz SR7001 then to my Samsung 55B6000 all HDMI.


Any ideas?

Thanks

Ryan
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post #33384 of 38733
8/24/10 at 12:50pm
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Originally Posted by fitzcaraldo215 View Post

Sorry. Count me out on the Dune: no SACD. But, good luck with that.

That's why I own a Dune HD Base 3.0 and an Oppo BDP-83...the combination of those two devices gives me everything I'll ever need.
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post #33385 of 38733
8/24/10 at 12:52pm
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considering that there was probably nothing wrong with the player. It seems pretty clear the issue lies in the IR hub and/or third-party remote you're using.

No, as I stated the Oppo remote stopped controlling the Oppo. My universal remote stopped controlling the Oppo at the same time. Just to be clear... there was a problem. You could point the remote directly at the front of the player, from any angle and it would not operate the player. The only way it would work was by using the buttons on the face of the player. The universal remote worked with everything but the Oppo.

It was not connected to the hub for the last 12.998 months because it wouldn't work. I don't think there is a problem with the hub for that matter. I have three other devices plugged into it and it works just dandy. I can control each one with the universal remote as well as their original remotes. My feeling is the hub isn't giving the Oppo the feedback/voltage it's looking for....just a thought.

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I wonder how much it costs to send a double-boxed empty box

$13.48 regular ground!

I posted the update so that everyone could see that the folks at Oppo are very fair and willing to do what they can to make things right. I won't hesitate to recomend them to anyone..I don't feel that because it's not working with the hub that there is a problem with the Oppo. Probably an issue with the hub...I'll be getting a new one in a few days.
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post #33386 of 38733
8/24/10 at 12:56pm
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Originally Posted by Sxrd55 View Post

I have owned my Oppo 83 for about two weeks now and its great except for one issue. Fist when I hooked it up the sound kept cutting out when using the calibration audio disc. About every 5 seconds the sound would cut out but the picture played fine and noting indicated on the player or my receiver that it wasn't getting a single. So I pulled my HDMI cable that I was using which was a monoprice top of the line cable that was less than two years old and tried another cable.

After swapping out that HDMI cable for the cable that came with the Oppo the sound issue was gone. However during the playback of any Blu Ray the picture seems to hiccup every now and then at least 15+ times per movie. It doesn't freeze up anything it just seems to judder for a split second every few minutes. I made all my changes in the players set up menu and it still happens so I then reset the factory setting and it still happens. Any ideas on what is happening with this? My PS3, HD DVD and other Blu Ray player all play fine on my system but not the Oppo. I also update the firmware to the latest version with no better results. It almost seems like a HDMI handshake issue but all my components are pretty new and should be capable of handling this.

Currently I run the Oppo to my Marantz SR7001 then to my Samsung 55B6000 all HDMI.


Any ideas?

Thanks

Ryan

It does sound like HDMI handshake. As a diagnostic, do you get the same behavior if you connect the player directly to the display?

If you have AUTO set for Resolution, Color Space, or HDMI Audio, try using specific values instead. YCbCr 4:4:4 is the default color space for HDMI anyway.

Turn off HDMI CEC just in case.

-Bill
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post #33387 of 38733
8/24/10 at 1:24pm
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Originally Posted by dtblair View Post

One true fact about electronics is that within a year after purchase, it's obsolete (other than amps and maybe some speakers) .


Sorry, but I disagree with that. Obsolete they are not. Outdated in design, features, construction and no longer in use? Not hardly. Yeah, they don't have the latest tweek to feature sets but electronics continue to do the job they did on day one, just as well on day 538 or day 6304, assuming they did not break.

Obsolete and having the latest fashion feature are no the same thing. IE not having the latest trendy interconnnect isn't obsolecence. If CD's, DVD's and BD's become 8-tracks, LP's and cassettes, THEN they would be obsolete.
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8/24/10 at 2:00pm
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Originally Posted by Sxrd55 View Post

I have owned my Oppo 83 for about two weeks now and its great except for one issue. Fist when I hooked it up the sound kept cutting out when using the calibration audio disc. About every 5 seconds the sound would cut out but the picture played fine and noting indicated on the player or my receiver that it wasn't getting a single. So I pulled my HDMI cable that I was using which was a monoprice top of the line cable that was less than two years old and tried another cable.

After swapping out that HDMI cable for the cable that came with the Oppo the sound issue was gone. However during the playback of any Blu Ray the picture seems to hiccup every now and then at least 15+ times per movie. It doesn't freeze up anything it just seems to judder for a split second every few minutes. I made all my changes in the players set up menu and it still happens so I then reset the factory setting and it still happens. Any ideas on what is happening with this? My PS3, HD DVD and other Blu Ray player all play fine on my system but not the Oppo. I also update the firmware to the latest version with no better results. It almost seems like a HDMI handshake issue but all my components are pretty new and should be capable of handling this.

Currently I run the Oppo to my Marantz SR7001 then to my Samsung 55B6000 all HDMI.


Any ideas?

Thanks

Ryan

Might help if you reveal what you're watching, format-wise, and what the relevant player settings are. Aside from what Bill has already posted, it also sounds a bit like you're watching a DVD with 24p turned on.
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post #33389 of 38733
8/24/10 at 3:44pm
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Release date: August 24, 2010
Category: Public Beta Version
Main Version: BDP83-52-0816B
Loader Version: BE2731 or BT0431
Sub Version: MCU83-27-0326
Release Notes

1. A small number of Blu-ray discs with Dolby TrueHD audio exhibit a momentary audio drop-out issue if the player is connected to an A/V receiver via HDMI and bitstream is selected as the HDMI Audio format. This version fixes the issue.
2. Certain SACD discs with many short tracks or with a long track following several short tracks can cause the player to freeze during playback. This version fixes the issue.
3. The previous firmware version displays the time counter slightly too fast when playing SACD. This version fixes the issue.
4. Support for LPCM audio streaming over home network is restored. The previous firmware did not carry this feature over from older versions. Please note that home network streaming is an experimental feature. You will need a computer running UPnP or DLNA streaming server software that can support transcoding to LPCM in order to use this feature.
5. Fix for the issue of incorrect video size when playing some Blu-ray discs, such as “Patton”.
6. Other general disc and media file compatibility improvement based on recent and upcoming Blu-ray releases as well as user-submitted samples.

Known Bug:
1. SACD snaps, crackles, and pops between audio tracks are re-introduced into the firmware. There is no solution other than reverting to the previous 50-0424 Firmware.
2. Incorrect Aspect Ratio for external media. If the "Primary Output" is set to HDMI and the Aspect Ratio is set to "16:9 Wide/Auto", then the player will pillarbox all external media.
a. The solution is to either set Primary Output to "Component" or TV Aspect Ratio to "16:9 Wide" under Video Setup. Note: setting Primary Output to "Component" will degrade DVD picture performance.
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post #33390 of 38733
8/24/10 at 4:17pm
just installed....scary moment as I just had loader fixed and do loader fw update

player shut itself off..don't remember did it do that in past too?
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