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OPPO OPDV971H Digital HD-Ready Up-Converting DVD Player - Electronics

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OPPO OPDV971H Digital HD-Ready Up-Converting DVD Player

List Price: $249.99    Our Price: $199.99

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Manufacturer: OPPO Digital

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Features:

  • Highest-rated DVD player in 2005 Benchmark Review by "Secrets of Home Theater and High Fidelity"
  • Up-converting DVD player scalable to 576P (PAL)/720p/1080i for LCD/plasma/DLP displays for better picture
  • Faroudja DCDi technology produces superior, crisper, clearer images on DTVs
  • Plays DVD, DVD+/-RW, MPEG4/DivX/XviD, VCD, SVCD, CD+R/-RW, HDCD, MP3, WMA, JPEG, CD
  • Dolby Digital and DTS surround sound, free 5-foot DVI cable, PAL/NTSC compatible

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Product Description

Improve the picture quality of DVD movies shown on your high-definition television with the versatile OPPO Digital OPDV971H DVD player, which provides 480p/540p/576p/720p/1080i resolutions and can upconvert 480i video from DVDs to the high definition 720p/1080i formats. Featuring a slim and elegant design, it featurs a sleek, silver design that will fit in nicely the rest of your home theater's components. In addition to standard DVD move and CD audio discs, it's also compatible with DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW, (S)VCD, HDCD, and CD-R/RW discs as well as WMA and JPEG digital content. It also plays DivX 5, DivX 4, DivX 3, and DivX VOD video content (in compliance with DivX Certified technical requirements).


Customer Reviews

Almost perfect

The OPDV971H is almost the perfect DVD player. It's picture using the DVI connector is fantastic and the available adjustments are more than adequate to match the video output to whatever display technology one may be using. On the whole I'm very satisfied with this player.

That being said, I have two issues with this player. The first is that there is no picture adjustment for the analog output. If the chosen display technology needs the analog output, this is not a good choice of player for that combination.

My second and, in my opinion, larger concern is with the audio/video synchronization. Simply put, this player loses sync sometimes. Hitting 'stop' and 'play' resynchs the audio with the video, but this is annoying and, in my opinion, not something I would expect from a mid-range player.

According to the Oppo website FAQ, the audio synchronization problem is due to "video buffering" and poor dvd mastering. I suspect it's really a bug in their firmware. I've had two DVD players before this, one for which I paid $150 and one $60. Neither had any problem with audio synchronization.

Incidentally, I notice that the desynchronization problem occurs much more frequently while tweaking player settings so it would probably be a good idea to stay out of the menus while a video is playing.


Perfect DVD Player for International Traveler

I often travel to Europe and Asia and when I purchase DVD's there and play them on my Sony DVD player in the USA, I encounter numerous issues including region code restrictions and PAL encoding, but the Oppo DVD player allows me to watch pretty much any DVD I want. The player's default is region 1 but there is an easy software fix that can be found on Amazon and online.

My only complaint is the player will reset to the beginning of the disc if you turn it off. Oppo support offered a workaround by ejecting the disc and turning the player off, but this is a bit inefficient for such a basic feature. Do not let this deter you though, this is the best dvd player out there by far!


Excellent DVD Player

Excellent DVD player with Faroudja chipset (for the money, of course!)
Some minor strange design flaws:
- Partial tray opening
- DVI instead of HDMI (it is 2006 already!)
- Tray stays open when the power is turned off.


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