Tag Archives: Blu-Ray

BDP-93 DVD Region Free BluRay Zone B

BDP-93 DVD Region Free BluRay Zone B

Oppo BDP-93 Universal Network 3D Blu-ray Disc Player – DVD Region Free Bluray Zone B

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Enjoy the Music: Oppo BDP-80 Disc Player

Enjoy the Music: Oppo BDP-80 Disc Player

  Over the past year, this audiophile has been very fortunate to be able to review several pieces of equipment which are the epitome of “VALUE,” a word seldom heard in high end audio. Two of them were from Oppo; their BDP-83 and audiophile BDP-83SE universal disc players. Both do a super job in the [...]

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Oppo Has The Cure For Your Home Theater Blu’s: The BDP-80

Oppo Has The Cure For Your Home Theater Blu’s: The BDP-80

Last year it was my pronounced pleasure to receive and review Oppo’s first entry into the Blu-ray player market. The company was already known for quality DVD, particularly Upconvert DVD, players. The BDP-83 was everything I expected from the company, and much more. But there was one possible trouble with that unit. It was not [...]

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The Best Has Gotten Better

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With all of the resources that are available to the Blu-ray Disc Association’s major manufacturers, it’s remarkable that the first company to cure the ills of standalone Blu-ray players was Oppo Digital with its $499 BDP-83 (HT, September 2009). Upon that player’s release, many enthusiasts were using the PlayStation 3 for its speed and reliability. [...]

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Blu-ray Done Right

Blu-ray Done Right

The OPPO BDP-83 is a feature-packed Blu-ray Disc player that really delivers. Blu-ray playback is excellent, and utilizing Anchor Bay VRS technology, the BDP-83 also delivers excellent upscaling for standard DVD playback. Also, other features, such as Profile 2.0 compliance, SACD and DVD-Audio playback, as well as aa 2 USB ports for importing images and [...]

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Dawn of a Blu Universe

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Oppo Digital may not be the most recognized name on the block, but if you’ve used its products in the past, you’ll certainly remember it. Oppo has been in the DVD player market for a few years now and does all of its business online. You won’t find its products stocked in your local Best [...]

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The Biggest Bargain in Home Theater

The Biggest Bargain in Home Theater

Home theater enthusiasts have long dreamed of owning disc players that could handle virtually every type of material one might want to play—movies in either DVD or Blu-ray format, CDs, and even specialty audio discs in formats such as SACD, DVD-Audio and HDCD. What’s needed, of course, is a combination Blu-ray/universal player, but building one [...]

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Spears & Munsil: High Definition Benchmark

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As any good home theater enthusiast knows, the proper calibration of your display is the key step in achieving presentation quality that will knock your socks off. If, like most people however, you’re reluctant to invest in a professional ISF calibration of your equipment, then a do-it-yourself calibration disc is exactly what you need. For [...]

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High-Def Digest: S&M Benchmark Disc

High-Def Digest: S&M Benchmark Disc

Home theater gearheads who frequent the AVSForum boards are no doubt already familiar with the names Spears and Munsil. For the benefit of everyone else, Stacey Spears and Don Munsil are former writers for the Secrets of Home Theater and High Fidelity web site who developed the DVD Benchmark and the Progressive Scan DVD Player [...]

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Audiophile Audition: Benchmark Disc Review

Audiophile Audition: Benchmark Disc Review

I had never been happy with the black levels on my Samsung display, but the Spears & Munsil PLUGE and Contrast patterns allowed me to set a much better black level so that images on my display now have more depth and look more dynamic than ever before. The patterns on the other discs only [...]

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