OPPO Digital Presents: DV-980H (1080p, SACD DSD, 7.1 Surround, USB 2.0) - Page 32

You assume correct.

http://www.prillaman.net/oppo980_review.html

What's the Oppo "LFE bug"? I did notice that All of my SACDs decoded by my Integra Pre/Pro received as 5.0 when the DSD option is choosen in the Oppo menu. If LPCM used I get 5.1 and although the overall loudness is higher there is no more bass. So I don't think I loose the LFE [if one actually is encoded] but it is strange though. Also my Pre/Pro says the DSD is 44.1khz sampling, which actually the same as CD. This is the input on the Integra so I see the incoming signal before decoding. Any explanation?

late to the party....

With all this format war b.s. I think I'll just stay with DVD till a standard is know. (And by known I mean my Mom knows what to buy; sorry Mom)


Will this play DivX files off a DVD-R that is under 4 gigs?

I what to back-up movies with AC3 at the highest bitrate I can get.

THX, JNT

Got my 980 on Friday. HDMI hookup, 1080p setting looks about twice as sharp as the HDMI/1080p on the previous DV-981HD. Awesome player!!

Found a another review of the 980H from Mike R of ***************.

Video Test Results

The 980H was tested with 1080i and 1080p output over HDMI to a JVC RS-1 1080p projector on a 100 Carada Brilliant White screen and over component at 480p to a 55 Mitsubishi RPTV. Both displays have been professionally calibrated.

A full range of video adjustments are available, including brightness, contrast, sharpness, color space, saturation, hue and three gamma settings. For testing purposes, all controls were in their default (typically 0 or Off) positions.

The 980H was subjected to my usual barrage of test disk patterns, including those from DVE, Faroudja, HQV and Avia Pro. As with the 970HD, the Mediatek chip provides motion adaptive deinterlacing, so it did well with the Faroudja pendulum and flag-waving tests. The HQV Jaggies tests for directional interpolation and filtering is always a tough task for any DVD player. The 970HD only achieved average results with these tests, but this is where the combined efforts of Oppo and Mediatek on the new chip used in the 980H have made a difference. In particular, the second Jaggies test consists of a cluster of three equally spaced white bars of the same thickness, moving up and down between a 5-degree and 35-degree angle. With a quality deinterlacing solution, the bars remain smooth as they move. The 970HD had some rough edges with this test, but with the 980H, all three bars remain fairly smooth. This translates to fewer artifacts in fast motion scenes. As expected from previous Oppos, the 980H had no problem with the Avia Pro layer change test, as was expected since fast layer changes are an advantage of the Mediatek chip. The 980H also passes below black over both HDMI and component.

There was no evidence of any Y/C delay problems and no ringing or other sharpness issues at the default player settings. PAL to NTSC conversion also appears to be improved with the 980H. If you watch a lot of PAL disks, I'd still recommend the 981HD, but for the occasional viewing, the 980H does very well.

All in all, the test performance of the 980H is greatly improved from the 970HD. I would not hesitate to recommend to those with large screens (60+), using DLPs or other displays that might be subject to the macroblock enhancement of the 981HD.

After reading the very helpful discussion and comments on this board, I purchased the 980H directly from Oppo. My receiver does not have HDMI, so I have an HDMI cable sending video to my Sharp LCD and I have digital audio cables and a set of analog audio cables going to my Denon 2803 receiver.

I am having a problem with one DVD-Audio disc, the 2004 Silverline Classics recording of the six Bach Brandenburg Concertos performed by Academy of St. James, which plays fine on my Denon 2200 DVD player. When I load the disc in the 980H, and use the Audio Setup menu option to select either the 2-channel or the surround high resolution 96 kHz/24 bit track, and go back and select the Playlist menu option, the player freezes, stuck on the main menu. The 980H front display will give a reading of track 1 and timing 00:00 as if it's almost made it to the start of the track. The player is sufficiently frozen so that pressing Stop on the remote or even the player itself does nothing. I have to eject the disc and start over. Both Dolby tracks play fine, but the advanced resolution tracks will not play on this player. I tried using the Goto button on the remote control, described on p. 33 of the manual, but when I enter Title 1 or Title 2, the player does nothing, while Title 3 and Title 4, the Dolby tracks, play fine as usual. Any ideas?

I have an unrelated question. When I play an SACD, in the upper right-hand of the onscreen display there are horizontal dashes that occasionally have green bars above them. What are these markings? The upper left-hand part of the display shows red bars of increasing height but they don't appear to change position.

Try this beta firmware, released last week. Among other things, it addresses playback issues with some Silverline and RCA DVD-Audio discs. I had one problem disc (an RCA title) that has played flawlessly with this new firmware.

I ran across this posted text in the Integra 9.8 forum (pg 68), it may explain you DSD display question.

"By the way the Oppo support guys explained to me that DSD is carried as 64bits packet at 48Khz on HDMI so do not be disappointed if you see the DTC 9.8 showing 48Khz, your are not “robbed” of any bits. And It does not mean that DTC 9.8 downconvert DSD to 48Khz PCM this would defeat the whole idea."

Will SACD play fine through the 5.1 analog out?

I have played 1.2GB files from DVD-R on my DV-970HD just fine, so I'd expect that wouldn't be a problem on the 980H.


Anyone had a chance to put the USB through it's paces with video (Divx or Xvid) from an external HDD? Will it stream without the stuttering and video/audio desync?

Thank you so much. I am a bit embarrassed, as I had read the entire thread over the last week or two, and so was aware of the beta firmware update, but I guess it hadn't realized that my problematic DVD-A was from one of the affected labels. I updated the firmware using the USB port and the disc plays fine now.

Same things happens with my Integra, any word on the fix?

Mine says 44.1khz not 48khz. But in any case what DSD decoder are equiped to receive 64bits when DSD is a single bit medium?

I tried the beta firmware (dated 8/27) and it seems to fix the issue on my Denon 3808ci.

Now, I only wish that applying a firmware update would not reset my settings to the defaults. It took me a little bit to figure out I need to re-configure the audio settings (downmix 5.1, large speakers, sub on), I was close to reporting that the fix doesn't work.

I tried both the Pioneer and the Sony. Don't get the Sony, it seemed to clip the LFE channel information.

Not to be a jerk, but it states right in the firmware notes/instructions that it will reset everything to default.

Any advice? I have my DV-980H hooked up to a HL-T6189 and an Onkyo HTR-520. For whatever reason the sound is just fine when viewing TV on a Scientific Atlanta 8300HD. When I watch movies though, the center channel just sounds weak and it is hard to hear voices in quiet scenes. Any thoughts? The receiver is supposed to handle 96kHz so that is what I have the 980H set to, but I'm wondering if setting it to 48kHz would do anything. I'm at work so I can't try...figured I'd try to get some insight here. Thanks in advance.

Well, software updates most often will keep all your preference settings intact, but I'm not sure how "firmware" works. Could it be configured to be an option with the installation process, or are they distinct areas within the electronics of a player?

Digital (Optical). It's weird...Dolby Digital from my STB sounds fine...and voices are crisp and clear. For movies from the DVD Player though, normal voices, especially with any other type of background noise, become almost inaudible. The speakers are working and receiving signal, and I've even tried jacking up the audio level of the center channel to hear, but it is only somewhat productive. My receiver says it can handle a 96kHz signal but I can't think of anything else that could be the problem. I had a similar problem with my previous DVD player too though, a Panasonic S97, though not quite as bad...also using the 96kHz setting.

Perhaps check the digital output setting of the 980H in its setup menu? If it is not set to Raw but PCM, the receiver will not get center channel when "downmix" is set to 5.1. Set the digital output to Raw and the receiver should handle decoding properly.

It is set to Raw.