Old Bugs Revisited, Part I
Here are the "old bug" reports for items not requiring a lot of time-consuming retries.
1) The weird menu failure in "Austin Powers: Goldmember", SD-DVD still exists. The behavior is unchanged. See post #61 in the 0430 firmware thread for details.
2) The de-interlacing failures still exist in the closing credits of "Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery" SD-DVD. See the discussion beginning with this post in the "good test discs" thread:
http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showt...4#post16354084
3) In "Wall-E" Blu-Ray, get to the Top Menu and select Play Movie, then select Play. RESULT: A portion of the menu structure remains on the otherwise black screen for a couple seconds before playback begins. This is reminiscent of the problem we had from Total Menus on "Pinocchio" Blu-Ray when hitting Stop, but without the nastier consequences from that case. Doing the same operation with "Wall-E" on the PS3 shows no such problem. The entire menu goes to black and then there is the usual delay before the feature content starts. This Oppo problem can be easily repeated -- just return to Top Menu from the playing feature and try it again.
4) I'm still seeing near-black, large scale noise in what is supposed to be the solid dark gray video from Acoustic Reality, "Vivaldi: The Four Seasons" Blu-Ray. And the workaround I reported in post #39 of the 0702 firmware thread no longer works. The problem occurs at 1080p (never at 1080i or less) with 36-bit video (never with 30 or Deep Color OFF, with or without dithering) and with either YCbCr 4:4:4 (normal or raw) or RGB Video Level -- never with YCbCr 4:2:2 (normal or raw). With HDMI Demo mode turned ON, the problem appears on both halves of the screen -- unchanged from Demo mode OFF. This may turn out out to be a dithering problem either in my D2v or in my display, but I've seen no indications of it with other discs. And the fact that the "workaround" worked in the 0702 firmware strongly suggests to me that this is actually an HDMI handshake bug.
5) The problem I've had with the Dragon Encounter extra on "Sleeping Beauty" Blu-Ray -- where this unusual 7.1 DTS-HD HR track is seen as only 5.1 DTS-HD HR HDMI bitstream input in my D2v -- still exists. Jason tells me the other processors they are testing with see the proper 7.1 bitstream, and I haven't heard back from Anthem on this one. See post #75 in the 0430 firmware thread for details.
6) The problem where HDMI Bitstream of a CD shows as "No Signal" for audio input on my D2v still exists. This problem had been fixed in the 29-0601T firmware, but reappeared in the 0612 firmware. Again, this must be an Oppo bug. For normal CD playback, the D2v should not be able to tell whether the Oppo is set to HDMI Bitstream or HDMI LPCM as both settings should produce the same HDMI LPCM.
7) As reported above, my repeatable cases for generating Red/Blue color swap no longer fail. THIS BUG IS FIXED! However, I can now generate cases of black screen with no HDMI audio doing the same things. The rate of failure is less than the Red/Blue failures in the previous firmware, but it is still fairly easy to get a black screen failure.
8) The UI typo has not yet been corrected: Setup > Audio Processing > Dolby Pro Logic II > "Dimention" should be "Dimension".
9) As reported above, the "Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring: Extended Edition" SD-DVD video glitch on scenes that go to black has changed behavior in this firmware. See post #42 in the 0715 firmware thread for the original report. See post #6 above in this thread for the latest results. I have one additional result to report. I said in post #6 above that there is no defect when using 1080p and 36-bit video in this firmware. That is correct. Indeed, there is no defect using 1080p video with this firmware at 36-bit, 30-bit (dithered), 30-bit, and OFF (dithered). HOWEVER, there *IS* still a defect when using 1080p and Deep Color OFF (i.e., not dithered)! Go figur.... I hope all this means something to the engineers!
I should also point out that I have not been using 480i output (or Deep Color OFF) for SD-DVD viewing for quite some time. So it is possible this defect may have first appeared several firmware releases ago and I just didn't see it since I was using 1080p and 36-bit. The fact that the problem showed up in the 0715 firmware even at 1080p and 36-bit may, then, just be another consequence of the screwup in SD to HD color conversion -- now fixed of course.
What's more, the combos I have identified here as "No Defect" also look great as far as black levels using my "correct" video calibration. Indeed, the 1080p, 36-bit combo looks excellent with that calibration.
[NOTE: The horizontal line defect still exists near the top of the film even when using a "No Defect" combo in this firmware. But I'm seeing that same thing on all my players, so it is undoubtedly in the content.]
10) As reported above, the failure to get back to the BD-Live menu after playing any BD-Live feature on "Coraline" Blu-Ray appears to be just another instance of the black screen failure after a handshake in this firmware. However, with the 0715 firmware I was not able to recover from the black screen by the usual tricks (e.g., cycling inputs, or changing Oppo output resolutions), so there *MAY* be something extra at work here. This one bears some watching. My copy of "Coraline" is from NetFlix, so I'll probably have sent it back before the next firmware comes out.
Note: I've not gotten any more "UPG FAILED" messages during the testing this evening, so it probably was just a server issue this afternoon. Also, I've not gotten any instance of 1079p video during my testing this evening. I didn't have any with the 0715 firmware either. So it looks like that problem REALLY IS FIXED.
I'll report later on the old bugs that require more time-consuming testing.
--Bob
