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zaphod
Joined: 16 Jun 2006 Posts: 2002 Location: Cloverdale
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Link Posted: Tue May 25, 2010 1:38 am Post subject: |
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it might be because the 83 is a playback machine and not a streaming machine. the PS3 streams as a side bonus from it's online gaming capabilities. that is, it's designed to read a digital stream from the internet (game) so why not make a path from that to the dac already in there and provide mp3 streaming from sites like pandora?
you can get a squeezebox to do the pandora streaming.
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kal Forum Administrator
Joined: 06 Mar 2006 Posts: 17860 Location: Ottawa, Canada
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betel
Joined: 20 Apr 2006 Posts: 448 Location: Maryville, Tennessee (Just South of Knoxville)
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Link Posted: Tue May 25, 2010 10:02 pm Post subject: |
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I guess the PS3 spoiled me to expect streaming from a disc player.
From what I've read, the BDP-80 should offer the same blu-ray video/audio performance. It is very rare I would watch a DVD on the G90 so the lower upscale performance isn't really an issue but the plastic front is hard to take.
I really hope I don't buy the 83 and then next week Oppo comes out with the BDP-83s or something that has streaming and at a lower price to boot.
Update: The deed is done. Ordered from Amazon via Curt Palme.
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ecrabb Forum Moderator
Joined: 13 Mar 2006 Posts: 15909 Location: Utah
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Link Posted: Tue May 25, 2010 10:14 pm Post subject: |
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betel wrote: | lower upscale performance isn't really an issue but the plastic front is hard to take. |
Same here. Seems that everybody has gone to the model where you can't get anything with an aluminum face on it for less than $400-500... It's like a "premium" feature now to have a metal faceplate.
It's not just Oppo, of course... All the players out there for $200-350 all seem to look like plastic-y junk... Samsung, LG, Toshiba, Panasonic... It it's under $400, it's plastic. The Pioneer BDP-320 looks pretty nice (in spite of the plastic), but I don't know if it's any good. Wish I could get the Oppo 80 in a Denon-style case.
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