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I'm not just talking connection speed here...
Part of the reason I got the Oppo BDP-93 was for the video adjustments available on it. Oppo has three picture modes that you can customize and relatively easily toggle between. (Just wish the Oppo would remember adjustments by source) Unfortunately I don't know a whole lot about how the Netflix video stream is compressed and how to enhance it. If other people know more about how Netflix compresses their video and how to enhance it I'd love to hear it. Also if someone knows more about the Oppo adjustments beyond what the manual states that would be cool too.
I've started out conservatively playing around with one or two points of sharpness, noise reduction, color enhancement, and contrast enhancement. Right now for Netflix streaming I have the following settings:
Sharpness +1
Noise Reduction +2
Color Enhancement +1
Contrast Enhancement +1
According to Oppo's manual, sharpness adds low level detail enhancement which at +1 is pretty subtle.
Noise Reduction at +2 reduces mosquito noise and block noise and adds Motion Adaptive Video Noise reduction to even out film grain.
Color Enhancement at +1 appears to increase color saturation a bit (Oppo doesn't supply much detail about how).
Contrast Enhancement adds a bit more "pop" to the image quality (again no explanation on how).
All together the image quality is more detailed, richer, smoother and more contrasty than the straight Netflix stream. In general, I like the result and generally keep it on when watching Netflix. I've also tried it with up scaling DVD content and like the results too. One thing I have noticed is these setting seem to accentuate the color banding or posterization of subtle hue shifts. Watching 13 Assasins last night scenes with a lot of fog or smoke started to look noticeably blotchy. I assume this is probably due to the increased Color and Contrast enhancement. If I wasn't so caught up in the film I probably would have stopped to turn those adjustments off to see what happens.
Part of the reason I got the Oppo BDP-93 was for the video adjustments available on it. Oppo has three picture modes that you can customize and relatively easily toggle between. (Just wish the Oppo would remember adjustments by source) Unfortunately I don't know a whole lot about how the Netflix video stream is compressed and how to enhance it. If other people know more about how Netflix compresses their video and how to enhance it I'd love to hear it. Also if someone knows more about the Oppo adjustments beyond what the manual states that would be cool too.
I've started out conservatively playing around with one or two points of sharpness, noise reduction, color enhancement, and contrast enhancement. Right now for Netflix streaming I have the following settings:
Sharpness +1
Noise Reduction +2
Color Enhancement +1
Contrast Enhancement +1
According to Oppo's manual, sharpness adds low level detail enhancement which at +1 is pretty subtle.
Noise Reduction at +2 reduces mosquito noise and block noise and adds Motion Adaptive Video Noise reduction to even out film grain.
Color Enhancement at +1 appears to increase color saturation a bit (Oppo doesn't supply much detail about how).
Contrast Enhancement adds a bit more "pop" to the image quality (again no explanation on how).
All together the image quality is more detailed, richer, smoother and more contrasty than the straight Netflix stream. In general, I like the result and generally keep it on when watching Netflix. I've also tried it with up scaling DVD content and like the results too. One thing I have noticed is these setting seem to accentuate the color banding or posterization of subtle hue shifts. Watching 13 Assasins last night scenes with a lot of fog or smoke started to look noticeably blotchy. I assume this is probably due to the increased Color and Contrast enhancement. If I wasn't so caught up in the film I probably would have stopped to turn those adjustments off to see what happens.