http://hd.engadget.com/2009/03/23/oppo-bdp-83-universal-blu-ray-player-first-impressions/ Engadget HD Comments for OPPO BDP-83 universal Blu-ray player first impressions http://hd.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://hd.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2009 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://hd.engadget.com/2009/03/23/oppo-bdp-83-universal-blu-ray-player-first-impressions/http://hd.engadget.com/2009/03/23/oppo-bdp-83-universal-blu-ray-player-first-impressions/
This looks wonderful. If the DVD functionality in this player can be region hacked and can handle PAL/NTSC conversion, I will buy this player the moment it comes out.

I don't care about region hacking for BluRay discs (yet), but I've so got many DVDs from other regions that it would be a deal breaker. That's why I love my DV-981h so much :) ]]>Mar 23rd 2009 11:20AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2009/03/23/oppo-bdp-83-universal-blu-ray-player-first-impressions/http://hd.engadget.com/2009/03/23/oppo-bdp-83-universal-blu-ray-player-first-impressions/Mar 23rd 2009 12:31PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2009/03/23/oppo-bdp-83-universal-blu-ray-player-first-impressions/http://hd.engadget.com/2009/03/23/oppo-bdp-83-universal-blu-ray-player-first-impressions/Mar 23rd 2009 2:05PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2009/03/23/oppo-bdp-83-universal-blu-ray-player-first-impressions/http://hd.engadget.com/2009/03/23/oppo-bdp-83-universal-blu-ray-player-first-impressions/Mar 23rd 2009 3:03PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2009/03/23/oppo-bdp-83-universal-blu-ray-player-first-impressions/http://hd.engadget.com/2009/03/23/oppo-bdp-83-universal-blu-ray-player-first-impressions/Mar 23rd 2009 11:17PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2009/03/23/oppo-bdp-83-universal-blu-ray-player-first-impressions/http://hd.engadget.com/2009/03/23/oppo-bdp-83-universal-blu-ray-player-first-impressions/Mar 23rd 2009 11:21AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2009/03/23/oppo-bdp-83-universal-blu-ray-player-first-impressions/http://hd.engadget.com/2009/03/23/oppo-bdp-83-universal-blu-ray-player-first-impressions/Mar 23rd 2009 11:42AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2009/03/23/oppo-bdp-83-universal-blu-ray-player-first-impressions/http://hd.engadget.com/2009/03/23/oppo-bdp-83-universal-blu-ray-player-first-impressions/Mar 23rd 2009 11:56AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2009/03/23/oppo-bdp-83-universal-blu-ray-player-first-impressions/http://hd.engadget.com/2009/03/23/oppo-bdp-83-universal-blu-ray-player-first-impressions/Mar 23rd 2009 11:19PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2009/03/23/oppo-bdp-83-universal-blu-ray-player-first-impressions/http://hd.engadget.com/2009/03/23/oppo-bdp-83-universal-blu-ray-player-first-impressions/Mar 23rd 2009 1:41PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2009/03/23/oppo-bdp-83-universal-blu-ray-player-first-impressions/http://hd.engadget.com/2009/03/23/oppo-bdp-83-universal-blu-ray-player-first-impressions/Mar 23rd 2009 11:58AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2009/03/23/oppo-bdp-83-universal-blu-ray-player-first-impressions/http://hd.engadget.com/2009/03/23/oppo-bdp-83-universal-blu-ray-player-first-impressions/
Will my HD DVR universal remote from Time Warner control this thing? :)

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http://www.target.com/Curtis-Mathes-Blu-ray-Disc-Player/dp/B001COGXMC/qid=1237833257/ref=br_1_1/178-3924831-4996531?ie=UTF8&node=240684011&frombrowse=1&rh=&page=1]]>Mar 23rd 2009 2:38PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2009/03/23/oppo-bdp-83-universal-blu-ray-player-first-impressions/http://hd.engadget.com/2009/03/23/oppo-bdp-83-universal-blu-ray-player-first-impressions/
Advantages over the PS3

- Does DVD-A
- Bitstreams codecs
- Has IR for universal remotes (i.e. harmony)
- Faster access to the Blu-Ray movie
- Better user interface
- Lower power consumption
- Smaller
- Quieter
- DVD upscaling will be marginally better

Disadvantages compared to PS3

- Probably will be more expensive on release
- Cannot be used as a media server
- Cannot play games
- No hard-drive for media storage
- No online video store

I have a receiver that decodes hi-res codecs, is bit-streaming THAT much better compared to PCM transcoding? ]]>Mar 23rd 2009 2:17PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2009/03/23/oppo-bdp-83-universal-blu-ray-player-first-impressions/http://hd.engadget.com/2009/03/23/oppo-bdp-83-universal-blu-ray-player-first-impressions/
I own one of the original PS3s with built-in PS2 hardware, and I have no desire to try to replace it when the drive goes, so I'm going to preserve that drive for as long as humanly possible. Besides, as decent as the PS3 is with upconverting DVDs, this player is better.]]>Mar 24th 2009 12:57AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2009/03/23/oppo-bdp-83-universal-blu-ray-player-first-impressions/http://hd.engadget.com/2009/03/23/oppo-bdp-83-universal-blu-ray-player-first-impressions/Mar 23rd 2009 2:44PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2009/03/23/oppo-bdp-83-universal-blu-ray-player-first-impressions/http://hd.engadget.com/2009/03/23/oppo-bdp-83-universal-blu-ray-player-first-impressions/Mar 23rd 2009 2:45PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2009/03/23/oppo-bdp-83-universal-blu-ray-player-first-impressions/http://hd.engadget.com/2009/03/23/oppo-bdp-83-universal-blu-ray-player-first-impressions/Mar 24th 2009 2:08AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2009/03/23/oppo-bdp-83-universal-blu-ray-player-first-impressions/http://hd.engadget.com/2009/03/23/oppo-bdp-83-universal-blu-ray-player-first-impressions/" have a receiver that decodes hi-res codecs, is bit-streaming THAT much better compared to PCM transcoding?"

No difference except that w/ PCM transcoding, you can get the audio portion of the usually inane and superfluous extra audio content. Many people confuse decoding of Dolby TrueHD and DTS-MA with digital to analogue conversion and believe incorrectly that the receiver is better at decoding to PCM than the player because they think the receiver has better digital to analogue converters. Your receiver may well have better DA converters, but that has nothing to do with decoding from Dolby or DTS to PCM.

If you send your receiver a PCM signal, it is still doing the Digital to Analogue conversion. ]]>Mar 23rd 2009 3:40PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2009/03/23/oppo-bdp-83-universal-blu-ray-player-first-impressions/http://hd.engadget.com/2009/03/23/oppo-bdp-83-universal-blu-ray-player-first-impressions/Mar 23rd 2009 8:07PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2009/03/23/oppo-bdp-83-universal-blu-ray-player-first-impressions/http://hd.engadget.com/2009/03/23/oppo-bdp-83-universal-blu-ray-player-first-impressions/
Yes. They have to be licensed and tested, plus the decoding algorithm is *by definition* lossless. If something different was coming out of the decoder in this player versus what went in, it wouldn't get licensed. Simple. For the lossy codecs, maybe there's a little wiggle room, but with lossless, it either is or isn't, there's no room for "close".]]>Mar 23rd 2009 9:04PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2009/03/23/oppo-bdp-83-universal-blu-ray-player-first-impressions/http://hd.engadget.com/2009/03/23/oppo-bdp-83-universal-blu-ray-player-first-impressions/Mar 23rd 2009 4:35PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2009/03/23/oppo-bdp-83-universal-blu-ray-player-first-impressions/http://hd.engadget.com/2009/03/23/oppo-bdp-83-universal-blu-ray-player-first-impressions/
Oppo Blu-Ray plus Nintendo Wii?

OR

PS3?

]]>Mar 24th 2009 2:30AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2009/03/23/oppo-bdp-83-universal-blu-ray-player-first-impressions/http://hd.engadget.com/2009/03/23/oppo-bdp-83-universal-blu-ray-player-first-impressions/Apr 10th 2009 12:42PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2009/03/23/oppo-bdp-83-universal-blu-ray-player-first-impressions/http://hd.engadget.com/2009/03/23/oppo-bdp-83-universal-blu-ray-player-first-impressions/Mar 24th 2009 10:55AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2009/03/23/oppo-bdp-83-universal-blu-ray-player-first-impressions/http://hd.engadget.com/2009/03/23/oppo-bdp-83-universal-blu-ray-player-first-impressions/Mar 24th 2009 4:52PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2009/03/23/oppo-bdp-83-universal-blu-ray-player-first-impressions/http://hd.engadget.com/2009/03/23/oppo-bdp-83-universal-blu-ray-player-first-impressions/Mar 24th 2009 10:47PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2009/03/23/oppo-bdp-83-universal-blu-ray-player-first-impressions/http://hd.engadget.com/2009/03/23/oppo-bdp-83-universal-blu-ray-player-first-impressions/Mar 25th 2009 4:06PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2009/03/23/oppo-bdp-83-universal-blu-ray-player-first-impressions/http://hd.engadget.com/2009/03/23/oppo-bdp-83-universal-blu-ray-player-first-impressions/

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I'll wait with fingers crossed. (When I called Oppo to order a the 983, customer services tells me, "..the player is only region 1, but 'you could find ways to defeat the region and make it universal by other online websites.' )

If not, I'll see no need to yet replace my Samsung Duo for the main player as I have quite a huge collection of HD-DVD as well.

so sad...]]>Mar 28th 2009 1:07PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2009/03/23/oppo-bdp-83-universal-blu-ray-player-first-impressions/http://hd.engadget.com/2009/03/23/oppo-bdp-83-universal-blu-ray-player-first-impressions/If not, I assume that they'll eventually be released as Blue Ray, yes?]]>Mar 28th 2009 1:47PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2009/03/23/oppo-bdp-83-universal-blu-ray-player-first-impressions/http://hd.engadget.com/2009/03/23/oppo-bdp-83-universal-blu-ray-player-first-impressions/
I'm half tempted to try to find an HD-DVD drive so I can rip/transcode. I might want to watch Bourne Identity again someday, but I have no intention of buying it on BD when I have a decent copy already.]]>Mar 30th 2009 1:53PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2009/03/23/oppo-bdp-83-universal-blu-ray-player-first-impressions/http://hd.engadget.com/2009/03/23/oppo-bdp-83-universal-blu-ray-player-first-impressions/Mar 28th 2009 3:13PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2009/03/23/oppo-bdp-83-universal-blu-ray-player-first-impressions/http://hd.engadget.com/2009/03/23/oppo-bdp-83-universal-blu-ray-player-first-impressions/
Ummm ... that's either highly illegal operation, misobservation, or flat out misrepresentation.

Dark Knight has any number of segments before the movie starts: An initial load, a DRM check, an FBI screen, a WB Home Video logo, a PG-13 notice, another DRM/Java section, and finally the film starts. No way that happens in 4 seconds.

Skipping the FBI notice, the WHV logo and the MPPA rating, not to mention the DRM, would be way illegal. Is this Oppo demo set up to fool reviewers or something?]]>Mar 29th 2009 6:04PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2009/03/23/oppo-bdp-83-universal-blu-ray-player-first-impressions/http://hd.engadget.com/2009/03/23/oppo-bdp-83-universal-blu-ray-player-first-impressions/
I hear you. I've bugged my representatives about no-skip being ILLEGAL. Once money changes hands, it's my player. Once money changes hands, it SHOULD be my copy of a movie. If I get a movie legally, it's technically ILLEGAL to skip the FBI warnings. If, however, I STEAL the movie online, I DON'T have to watch the warning.]]>Mar 30th 2009 1:49PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2009/03/23/oppo-bdp-83-universal-blu-ray-player-first-impressions/http://hd.engadget.com/2009/03/23/oppo-bdp-83-universal-blu-ray-player-first-impressions/May 16th 2009 4:03AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2009/03/23/oppo-bdp-83-universal-blu-ray-player-first-impressions/http://hd.engadget.com/2009/03/23/oppo-bdp-83-universal-blu-ray-player-first-impressions/May 27th 2009 10:14AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2009/03/23/oppo-bdp-83-universal-blu-ray-player-first-impressions/http://hd.engadget.com/2009/03/23/oppo-bdp-83-universal-blu-ray-player-first-impressions/Shame, because I love my Oppo DVD]]>Jun 1st 2009 10:01PM