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Hi experts,
Like to know about the internal working and audio specs of the Oppo BDP95. I cannot find a frequency response or impulse response from it in SACD vs PCM mode. Then about the attenuator, is that done in the digital part so that there are no active components in the analog signal path? And since it is an universal player, what do you guys think of the HDCP, is it compatible with my Panasonic Plasma TV and does it jeopardize the picture quality? Or better, can it be removed?? It seems like a very nice peace of work but I hate these region protection and copy protection stuff that cripple the possibilities and/or quality and make these players more expensive at the same time. Edmund |
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On Apr 16, 10:47=A0pm, Edmund wrote:
Hi experts, Like to know about the internal working and audio specs of the Oppo BDP95= .. I cannot find a frequency response or impulse response from it in SACD vs= PCM mode. Then about the attenuator, is that done in the digital part so that there= are no active components in the analog signal path? And since it is an universal player, what do you guys think of the HDCP, = is it compatible with my Panasonic Plasma TV and does it jeopardize the picture= quality? Or better, can it be removed?? It seems like a very nice peace of work but I hate these region protectio= n and copy protection stuff that cripple the possibilities and/or quality and m= ake these players more expensive at the same time. Edmund Can't answer the Q about the specs -- but I have heard that the BDP95 is in its audio mode v. similar to my own Oppo BDP-85 -- which means very good indeed, for SACD and straight CD modes. but real reason for answering is that the region protection is very easy to get rid of in an affordable way. I'm in Australia, and wanted to make my Oppo multi-region for Blu ray as well as for DVD, and found on Ebay a mod kit from Denmark which was about $70, and took all of five minutes to do the mod. Because it's a hardware mod, not a software mod, it's not affected at all by any subsequent firmware updating you may want to do. The upscaling on the Oppo machine for standard DVDs is sensational by the way -- a well-authored DVD can come up almost to Blu ray standard. Australians (and other PAL-region dwellers) should note that the upscaling seems to work only for NTSC-authored DVDs. Luckily, almost all my DVDs are NTSC, since I preferred to put up with the slight pic degradation of NTSC compared to PAL in favour of having movies which ran at the correct speed, and which maintained correct audio pitch (PAL movies are sped up by approx 4 per cent with corresponding lift in audio pitch). Cheers Anthony |
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* It may have been the liquor talking, but
anthony wrote: On Apr 16, 10:47Â*pm, Edmund wrote: Hi experts, Like to know about the internal working and audio specs of the Oppo BDP95. I cannot find a frequency response or impulse response from it in SACD vs PCM mode. Then about the attenuator, is that done in the digital part so that there are no active components in the analog signal path? And since it is an universal player, what do you guys think of the HDCP, is it compatible with my Panasonic Plasma TV and does it jeopardize the picture quality? Or better, can it be removed?? It seems like a very nice peace of work but I hate these region protection and copy protection stuff that cripple the possibilities and/or quality and make these players more expensive at the same time. Edmund Can't answer the Q about the specs -- but I have heard that the BDP95 is in its audio mode v. similar to my own Oppo BDP-85 -- which means very good indeed, for SACD and straight CD modes. but real reason for answering is that the region protection is very easy to get rid of in an affordable way. I'm in Australia, and wanted to make my Oppo multi-region for Blu ray as well as for DVD, and found on Ebay a mod kit from Denmark which was about $70, and took all of five minutes to do the mod. Because it's a hardware mod, not a software mod, it's not affected at all by any subsequent firmware updating you may want to do. The upscaling on the Oppo machine for standard DVDs is sensational by the way -- a well-authored DVD can come up almost to Blu ray standard. Australians (and other PAL-region dwellers) should note that the upscaling seems to work only for NTSC-authored DVDs. Luckily, almost all my DVDs are NTSC, since I preferred to put up with the slight pic degradation of NTSC compared to PAL in favour of having movies which ran at the correct speed, and which maintained correct audio pitch (PAL movies are sped up by approx 4 per cent with corresponding lift in audio pitch). Cheers Anthony thanks for the review. Have been looking at the BDP93 myself both for CD and DVD duty. Do you know if your unit the '85', plays flac and ogg-vorbis files? Or if the new Oppo Universal players do? *R* *H* -- Powered by Linux |/ 2.6.32.26-175 Fedora 12 "No spyware. No viruses. No nags." |/ 2.6.31.12-0.2 OpenSUSE 11.2 http://www.catholicscomehome.org |/Mutt 1.5.21 slrn 0.9.9p1 Irssi 0.8.15 "Preach the gospel always; when necessary use words." St. Francis |
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