Is anyone actually happy with their HD931?

I just purchased the 931 last weekend along with a new ht receiver. I have not had a great deal of time to spend with it yet but so far have had

some strange things happen. First off, the 931 is from Oct 2003 and has the dvi cable which I am using on my Toshiba 57HX93. The picture quality is

awesome and I am very happy with that but, I have seen lip sink problems

while trying to play a new 007 dvd in DTS mode. The sink works fine in

Dolby Pro LogicII tho. Secondly, I put in (only watched maybe twice) Lost

in Space while the 931 was set at 480P and it kept freezing briefly but kept

playing. Then I changed the 931 to 1080i and the dvd worked fine and did

not freeze at all. I haven't decided if I am going to keep the 931 or not yet. I need to spend more time this weekend to test it further. But I hope it works out for me cuz the pq is really great! Does anyone have any thoughts on the lip sink issue? I would appreciate any input on that matter.

Thanks!

I've got both HD931 and V880, the 931 never locks of on me, it nerver stuttering, and it loads every DVD I put in there, even rental one that are badly scratched.

The V880 and the D1 is all hype, I had this thing not loading many DVDs first try, and it stuttering on few DVD, I had to power recycle this thing all the times (All these issues that I encounter was before the Mod). Now I just now spend about $100 on the mods, plus my time, now the only problem I got is stuttering.

So you ask me if I'm happy with my 931, of course I am, at least it's a very reliable player.

Now I heard people say they willing to wait for D2, Whhhy? the D2 is still use the same Sigma chip. And with other menufactures are come out more DVI players, and more to choose from, why stay with D2 or D3?


Remember, DVI works best with digital display, ie DLP or LCD.


You might think the Crush black with PC Standar DVI, 0-255, the true is -- you can't see the difference (Do a A / B comparision with V880 and HD 931, and You know what I mean).


Oh Remote issues with many people -- I am so used to 931 and I love it, I can push any button without looking at the remore. So get use to it.


Baja

Have the 931 through DVI to a PA2OU Panny plasma...PQ is outstanding, significantly better than any DVD player I have seen and have had no significant problems with any DVD I throw at it. Have noticed very rare audio sync issues but not a big problem and likely more to do with particular DVD transfers/smudges than the 931. Remote did suck but got a Harmony universal remote and the problem was more than solved. As for black crush, not a noticeable problem for me...but this plasma does CRT quality blacks which might help to compensate for this over LCD, etc. i.e this might be more noticeable with other displays. The crush issue appears to be display dependent, as to whether one can see it, according to posts on this forum, so one would have to try it and see. Overall, not perfect, but at this price point, what is? The 931 is definitely worth a look and overall a great player for the price.



elvis

I got the 931 last week. I have only had time to play 2 DVD's on it, one was "Winged Migration" (a most awsome nature documentary, highly recommended!) which played perfectly with incredible PQ thru DVI to my Panasonic PT-50LC13 with great Dolby Digital sound. The other was a brand new unsmudged unscratched pristine copy of "Titanic" (a gift). It was very disappointing due to: (1) the stupid super widescreen aspect (non 16:9) format with upper and lower screen black bars (wish they wouldn't release DVDs like that, nobody wants to watch 2/3 of the available screen, but I know that's not a malfunction) and more importantly my REAL issue here: (2) the audio sync was like watching a bad Japanese overdubbed flick.


Is this audio sync a problem of the 931 or a bad DVD (one would think "Titanic" would be a high quality release and there were no visable flaws. Has anyone by any chance watched this particular DVD on their 931?) or is this audio sync problem something that happens to other DVD players? If it's unique to the 931, back to Best Buy it goes.


Thanks in advance.