Audioholics review of Oppo DV971 upconverting DVD player
By Matt Burns 
posted Oct 12th 2005 5:28PM
posted Oct 12th 2005 5:28PM
The guys over at Audioholics have posted a review of the up-converting DVD player from Oppo. The little guy comes in at a good bargain considering it up-converts from 480p to 720p or 1080i via an HDCP-free DVI connection and they do it for under $250. The player also takes care of those nasty aliasing lines via an on board Faroudja DCDi processing rarely found on players this cheap. They find it to be a good player for the money.
I have a westy 1080p LCD hd monitor. and it has DCDi by Faroudja. so i was taking for gratned how incredibly great that firmware is ( especially when it is tuned for the 1080 native res buffer of the monitor) ... until i saw a 720p game on a 1080i that didnt have it. was all wrong.. i was shocked. then i saw a 1080i program on a 1368 (720p hd ready whatever ) some crystal scan whatever i think, and it looked so pathetic for bad downsampling that i was sure the signal was botched until i checked it through a true 1080, and of course it was perfect.
so basically IMHO especially in LCD stuff, you want DCDi handling updown. no doubt. Faroudja. still the best.