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Tom.W · Joined: 09 Mar 2006 Posts: 6637

What blu ray discs were not playing on the first try and using what firmware update ?

dturco · Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2011 9:59 pm Post subject:

greg_mitch · Joined: 03 May 2006 Posts: 5321

This is very disappointing. It WAS my dream player.

Tom.W · Joined: 09 Mar 2006 Posts: 6637

I tried Kill Bill one and two,Avatar.9 and a few others(all blu ray) and no problem here. Did you have the player connected to the internet ? I did notice a slight delay playing Avatar but it appeared to be checking for a firmware update and took a minute or two but then then started playing.

Personally I think the blu ray format has far two many problems caused by HDCP and the studios that cripple play back. HD DVD's just work. Never had one that just wouldn't play.......

Nashou66 · Joined: 12 Jan 2007 Posts: 16171 Location: West Seneca NY

Dave did yuo have the auto resolution set to on?

I found my BD 83 sucks with hand shakes if set to auto.

I dont have any issues with my older unit like you have.

And I love the Zoom feature, the 1/2 zoom fits 1.78 aspect movies perfectly to my 2.35 screen hight wise. perfect player for blenders or CIH set ups.

Athansios

ecrabb · Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2011 4:43 am Post subject:

Tom.W · Joined: 09 Mar 2006 Posts: 6637

I forgot to mention the handshake issue. I run my 93 through a Monoprice 4X1 HDMI switcher then through an HDMI repeater due to the long 45ft run of 24 gauge Monoprice HDMI cable to the projector.

The HDMI signal then goes to a Fury 1 or 3 and then a Gamma X to my Barco

No HDMI/HDCP handshake issues so far at least with my Barco's using a Fury 1 or 3 ....

erikjohn · Joined: 08 Mar 2006 Posts: 636 Location: Florida

dturco · Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2011 1:23 pm Post subject:

Greg, Crabb, The more I think about it the more I am thinking the player was defective. The Handshake issue was a real problem. Every time the player made a change it seemed like it was doing a resolution change like when you would change from 720p to 1080p our projectors will display garbled looking sinewaves, then lock to the new frequency. This particular OPPO did that from menu to top menu, from top menu to movie. And the credits were shaking too.

I did try different cables and even put the OPPO on the downstairs T.V. same issues.

In fact the longer I had the worse it was getting , I just thought it was me being annoyed by the Glitch.

Maybe it was just a faulty player.

Nashou this how I had it set up, C&P from AVS

Hmmmm, This seems to be affecting me as well, but in a different way. I have the OPPO set for 1080i on HDMI 1 going to the Mitsubishi. 1080p is set to off and 24p is set to off. When the OPPO display is pushed the lower left corner info reads as 23.967hz 16x9. The Mitsubishi is playing fine, P/Q is great, but when the disc changes from menu to active picture or from trailers to a movie the Mitsubishi shows a garbled sinewave as if it's trying to lock onto a frequency or is changing frequencies. This occurs playing a Blu-ray or DVD same appearance of resetting frequencies and display of 23.967hz. As far as I know the Mitsubishi [CRT] can not display 24hz, so this seems odd. I do know the Marquee will not sync to 24hz. But I can not check it because I am re-tubing that right now.

Tom the 93 played Avatar fine which I thought would be an issue. The 93 was not connected to the internet and the internet connection was set off. It also loaded Firefly super fast, much faster,than the Sony 550. Firefly was horribly slow to load on the Sony. I thought things were gong to be good. This issue seem to happen around day 3.

EJ, no I didn't contact OPPO as Bob Pariseau on AVS said that this glitch was normal I accepted that as the case but thinking back it was just waay too glitchy to have been "normal for the QDEO chip"

Did I miss anybody?

Anyway don't fret too much I will give OPPO another try with the 95 But if it has the same handshaking issue that will be a no go for me. It really bothered me, obviously or I would still have it maybe.

2 channel was never what I wanted and the SACD play back lacked "life"

WanMan · Joined: 19 Mar 2006 Posts: 10273

My DirecTV HD DVRs use to have that problem using HDMI to the plasmas. Then I hard set the output to one resolution and it fixed the problem. Was there no way to do the same on this unit?

dturco · Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2011 1:16 pm Post subject:

Nashou66 · Joined: 12 Jan 2007 Posts: 16171 Location: West Seneca NY

I think you may have got a bum unit. Mine has no issues with hand shake. But because of my TV-One scalers i do get a blue screen here and there in the transition from trailers etc to the movie. But that to me is minor.

Athanasios

AFryia · Posted: Thu May 12, 2011 11:20 pm Post subject:

Does this unit output 1080p over analog (component YrPbPr) or does it conform and down scale non HDCP Crying or Very sad

km987654 · Posted: Fri May 13, 2011 1:51 am Post subject:

Tom.W · Joined: 09 Mar 2006 Posts: 6637

The analog sunset...

http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/10/analog-sunset-begins-all-the-new-blu-ray-players-will-only-outp/

http://www.extron.com/company/article.aspx?id=analogsunsetwp

Rolling Eyes

**AnalogRocks** · Posted: Fri May 13, 2011 6:50 am Post subject:

I'm setting? How up-setting.

Tom.W · Joined: 09 Mar 2006 Posts: 6637

So analog walks the plank on 12/31/2013

http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2006/02/6255.ars

Try to find an HD Fury in the USA or Canada even today... Rolling Eyes

All hope is not lost though.

http://www.hdfury.nl/

Wink

erikjohn · Joined: 08 Mar 2006 Posts: 636 Location: Florida

FYI
With the newest firmware the BDP-93 will now play DVD-V, DVD-A and BluRay ISO files from hard drive.
EJ

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=1291855&page=376

greg_mitch · Joined: 03 May 2006 Posts: 5321

erikjohn · Joined: 08 Mar 2006 Posts: 636 Location: Florida