2008年3月24日星期一

Oppo DVD 970 HD Universal DVD Player

I ran into this product by accident. I was looking for a cheap universal DVD player for my bedroom stereo setup. I was hoping for the announced Pioneer DV 696 AV. I found out that they released that product in Europe but not America. So I did an Internet search for universal players and ran into an Oppo DVD universal player. I thought, “Oh no, not another el cheapo unknown manufacturer's product." I went to the web site www.oppodigital.com anyway. I looked at the specs and saw it did everything I needed a player to do, plus a lot more. I decided to order one for the bedroom system, figuring it would be good enough for that system. On their site they had a link to a video magazine which has run tests on well over 100 DVD players over the past years. The model preceding the 970 (model DV 971HD) had received the highest video score of any DVD player that they had tested. The number two tested player was a $3500 Denon model. It was amazing to see how poorly many of the highly regarded players performed. [In fact, of their 19 stringent tests of video capabilities on both HDMI & component outputs, the Oppo unit only failed 3. One recent $1000 universal player from a major manufacturer showed almost as many failed as passed in the same tests!...Ed.] The video testing site found the Model 971 to be actually better than the 970; that would be very scary. The DV971 is more of a strictly DVD player, has Faroudja processing and is $50 more. But it does not have HDMI output or play SACD/DVD-A. I found three good universal players that are out now. The Oppo 970 tested as well as the $2000 Onkyo DV-SP1000 and the $750 Denon DV 2910, and better than $370 Denon DV 1920. One player than looks promising is the Arcam DV 137 at $2000. It has the best chips I have seen in a DVD player and up-samples DVD to 1080p.
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