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Hello everyone,
I am using an Onkyo receiver (apx. 5 years old) and an older Oppo blu-ray player (BDP-83). I have been using high speed HDMI cables for the last 2-3 years and have not experienced any audio drop-outs with Dolby True HD or DTS Master Audio. Last night we tried to watch Hunger Games: Mocking Jay and the audio kept dropping out at random points like crazy. I can pause the movie and go back to the scene and it would momentarily play back fine until 15 minutes later it would happen again. We got so frustrated that I just downgraded to normal DTS just to finish the movie.
I have a feeling this may be a Dolby Atmos issue because none of the movies I played had audio problems. I do have the most recent firmware upgrade on the Oppo but I gotta say I'm pretty disappointed with issues with the Oppo. I have a cheap $80 Sony 3D blu-ray player. Many discs load faster than the Oppo. I never had a disc that wouldn't read (whereas that happened several times with the Oppo). The picture & sound quality (with blu-rays) seem to be extremely close between the two - although I do like the plethora of "fine tuning" menu options the Oppo has to offer. I also had a case where the Oppo failed to display subtitles during a scene in Avatar when Sigourney Weaver was talking to one of her assistants (as a human) in the native language. Turning off the Oppo and restarting it solved the issue.
In other words... While I love the Oppo I also have constant issues plaguing the device. But a cheap $80 Sony blu-ray player feels light & cheap but plays flawlessly. I don't get it. I haven't been able to test Mocking Jay on the Sony player yet to verify if it's the Oppo, the HDMI cables (which I doubt but possibly might be) or the receiver. Has anyone else experienced similar problems and/or know of a fix to this?
I am using an Onkyo receiver (apx. 5 years old) and an older Oppo blu-ray player (BDP-83). I have been using high speed HDMI cables for the last 2-3 years and have not experienced any audio drop-outs with Dolby True HD or DTS Master Audio. Last night we tried to watch Hunger Games: Mocking Jay and the audio kept dropping out at random points like crazy. I can pause the movie and go back to the scene and it would momentarily play back fine until 15 minutes later it would happen again. We got so frustrated that I just downgraded to normal DTS just to finish the movie.
I have a feeling this may be a Dolby Atmos issue because none of the movies I played had audio problems. I do have the most recent firmware upgrade on the Oppo but I gotta say I'm pretty disappointed with issues with the Oppo. I have a cheap $80 Sony 3D blu-ray player. Many discs load faster than the Oppo. I never had a disc that wouldn't read (whereas that happened several times with the Oppo). The picture & sound quality (with blu-rays) seem to be extremely close between the two - although I do like the plethora of "fine tuning" menu options the Oppo has to offer. I also had a case where the Oppo failed to display subtitles during a scene in Avatar when Sigourney Weaver was talking to one of her assistants (as a human) in the native language. Turning off the Oppo and restarting it solved the issue.
In other words... While I love the Oppo I also have constant issues plaguing the device. But a cheap $80 Sony blu-ray player feels light & cheap but plays flawlessly. I don't get it. I haven't been able to test Mocking Jay on the Sony player yet to verify if it's the Oppo, the HDMI cables (which I doubt but possibly might be) or the receiver. Has anyone else experienced similar problems and/or know of a fix to this?