Official OPPO BDP-93 Owner's Thread - Page 26

Originally Posted by adminglf

hi all! Received my new -93 yesterday ;-))) Love the look of the new unit! This is my first Oppo, so anticipating great things! ;-)

Couple of issues found (as expected ;-)...I will be calling Oppo tomorrow (I doubt they are in on Sunday's ;-)

Findings...so far... ;-)

Network - I started with a wired connect using DHCP. No luck. Then tried wireless using WPA Personal (I'm using an old Linksys router)...still no luck. Went back to wired and used Manual setup to enter the IP info. This worked just fine.

SACD - I find that I'm not able to send DSD over HDMI to my Integra DHC-80.2...no output. Works fine using the PCM setting. The Integra is also fairly new, so I'm not sure whether the problem is with the 93 or my 80.2. Anyone else having similar results?

'My Network' - per the manual (page 43), this is an 'experimental feature' and is unsupported. My Integra has similar functionality (playback from servers) so thought I would compare. When drilling down through my server folders, each level was very sluggish to respond (longer than i would have thought), but worked till i got to the 5th directory level, then it just hung up (though i do have a large quantity of folders (900+) at that level, so they may not have enough memory allocated to support this.

CD playback - it seems to me that when advancing/backing up from track to track that the tracks don't start at the beginning (the time counter indicates 00:00, but the music track has already begun). Anyone else notice this?

Remote Controller - I'm not impressed with the new controller...sorry ;-). My -93 is in a built-in shelf unit with a glass front, and is positioned within the rack up near the top...I have to hold the remote up fairly high from my seated position to get the -93 to respond. Note that I don't have this problem with my Harmony One (and yes, the Oppo -83 IR codes work great ;-). Also, it seems that you have to push/hold the buttons down fairly hard to get a response...I'm just use to soft buttons i guess ;-)

Over all picture/sound is awesome! Can't wait to get the 'bugs' worked out ;-)

Glen

Originally Posted by adminglf

CD playback - it seems to me that when advancing/backing up from track to track that the tracks don't start at the beginning (the time counter indicates 00:00, but the music track has already begun). Anyone else notice this?

Originally Posted by kutlow

can someone post how I should have my settings on the 93? I will be using hdmi 1 to the projector which is 3D and hdmi 2 to my Dennon 4308ci avr which is not 3D. I need to know all the other settings please. Thank you in advance.

Originally Posted by Tenkan

I have audio truncation at the beginning of a CD or DVD. If I jump from track to track on a CD, the start of the track is truncated. Oppo support suggested this is a handshake issue and they are working on it.

93 -- HDMI1 --> Denon AVR-4308CI

Originally Posted by BGLeduc

I note that when playing a DVD via Component video, there is a brief stutter when the image first appears on screen, and then the entire image is shifted to the right. There is also a vertical black bar down the left side of the image. I suspect that what I am seeing is the image is shifted to the right and wrapped back around to the left side.

I note however, that I can resolve the issue by manually changing the max screen resolution in the Oppo from the default 1080i to 480p, and back to 1080i. I am aware that pretty much all commercial DVD's can not be upscaled to 1080i, but there does seem to be something that happens when the 93 detects a DVD and tries to switch down to 480p.

I have had Hi-def 1080i players connected to me systems for many years, so I am reasonable certain that whatever is going is is unique to the 93.

I passed that along to Oppo just a moment ago.

Brian

Originally Posted by Neuromancer

Most BD can't be zoomed yet because of BD-JAVA prohibitions. OPPO still has not offloaded the zoom controls to the Marvell Qdeo. This is planned in another firmware release.

Originally Posted by Toe

I am confused on this statement since I have read of 83 owners who zoom at their projectors to fill their 2.35 screens being able to use the 1/2x zoom on the Oppo for blu ray menus and extras framed at 1.78 or even 1.78/85 blu ray movies instead of re-zooming the projector for 1.78/85 material.

I just want to be able to do the same thing with the 93.

Originally Posted by wmcclain

I test component but don't use it daily. I have seen oddities over the years but not what you are seeing on the -93.

You have Primary Output set to Analog?

-Bill

Originally Posted by wmcclain

So say we all.

He was saying is it is not possible on the -93 at the moment. It is done on the -83 and we look forward to it on the -93 with future firmware.

-Bill

Originally Posted by floridapoolboy

1/2 zoom and subtitle shift are necessary for my planned 2.35:1 conversion, .

Originally Posted by Neuromancer

Try playing it on USB to confirm that it is compatible with the player.

Ensure that the server is not set to do video decoding. Have it send the raw data to the player.

Originally Posted by BGLeduc

Can you try HDMI 2? That was my workaround and it seems to work perfectly.

Brian

Originally Posted by robocox1

The BDP-93 plays my DVDs,B-R DVDs,CDs very well, but DVD-A do not play continously. The audio is broken up by dead air for a second and then repeats. Has any one experienced this or has a solution?

Originally Posted by sbtv

This was addressed somewhat in gsr and rwinner's posts several pages back (maybe 4 hours ago ) but I'm still not clear. When playing a DVD-A and SACD and setting the Oppo to use the FL / FR analogs as stereo outputs, will any down-rez'ing take place in the digital to analog conversion in the 93?

Originally Posted by CRRobert

Anyone know what manufacturer of the HDMI cables comes with the OPPO?

Just curious if people are using them or something else.

Originally Posted by floridapoolboy

Glad I waited to purchase a 93, I don't believe this is quite ready for prime time yet. 1/2 zoom and subtitle shift are necessary for my planned 2.35:1 conversion, I'll wait until the firmware catches up.

Originally Posted by PHX HD

So you're able to stream Netflix through the 93 without your AVR shutting down? I'll give that a try tomorrow.

Mine will shut down with no disc and nothing but the screen saver running.

Originally Posted by captcraig

I am able to stream Netflix with no shutdown. I turned off screen saver as suggested by others here but still no luck.

Originally Posted by slimoli

Do you use a subwoofer ? Almost all cases reported about Pioneer receivers shutting off has to do with speakers overloading. I don't know what can be causing this but I would do some tests changing the impedance settings on the receiver and switching phase control on and off.

The reason why I am insisting with this advice is because I use Pioneer receivers for more than 25 years and had shut off problems before. I had a direct contact with Pioneer engineers and they suggested I should try unplugging the speakers one by one to see what could be causing the overloading. In my case, it was a 4 Ohms pair of speaker , clearly not recommended on the manual. Speakers rated below 6 Ohms don't work well with the Pioneer receivers, as explained in the user manual.

I know you had everything working fine before but perhaps some feature/setting on the 93 is causing an overloading on some speaker/non-powered subwoofer.