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Features
- Universal Blu-ray disc player providing playback for a myriad of video formats on disc or eSATA/USB drives
- Dual HDMI 1.4 outputs for multiple displays or separate, dedicated video/audio connections
- Supports Blu-ray 3D specifications (3D television and glasses required)
- Decoding and individual 7.1-channel output for Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio
- Stream content from Netflix and update firmware via your wireless or wired network; Voltage: 100V - 240V, 50/60Hz AC
Description
Oppo's BDP-93 gives you universal playback of Blu-ray, DVD, CD, SACD, DVD-Audio, and a wealth of digital files, with solid picture and sound quality no matter the format. With access to streaming content from Netflix on Demand, USB and eSATA ports for your external drives, and wide connectivity including dual HDMI 1.4, this player defines versatility.Output : Analog Audio: 7.1ch, 5.1ch, or stereo, Digital Audio: Coaxial, Optical. HDMI Audio: Stereo, up to 7.1ch high-resolution PCM, up to 5.1ch DSD, bitstream or LPCM conversion of Dolby Digital, Dolby Digital Plus, Dolby TrueHD, DTS, DTS- HD High Resolution Audio, and DTS-HD Master Audio.Analog Video: Composite, Component Video (Y/Pb/Pr, 480i/480p, 720p/1080i available for non-restricted content only). Digital Video: HDMI with HDCP (NTSC: 480i/480p/720p/1080i/1080p/1080p24, PAL 576i/576p/720p/1080i/1080p/1080p24). From the Manufacturer Oppo's BDP-93 gives you universal playback of Blu-ray, DVD, CD, SACD, DVD-Audio, and a wealth of digital files, with solid picture and sound quality no matter the format. With access to streaming content from Netflix on Demand, USB and eSATA ports for your external drives, and wide connectivity including dual HDMI 1.4, this player defines versatility.Manufacturer Warranty:1 year warranty
Brand: OPPO
Media Type: Blu-Ray Disc, CD, DVD
Special Feature: Wireless
Resolution: 1920x1080
Connector Type: HDMI
Connectivity Technology: wi-fi_ready
Model Name: BDP-93
Color: Black
Item Weight: 11.2 pounds
Audio Output Mode: Stereo
Media Type: Blu-Ray Disc, CD, DVD
Other Special Features of the Product: Wireless
Resolution: 1920x1080
Connector Type: HDMI
Connectivity Technology: wi-fi_ready
Audio Output Mode: Stereo
Supported Audio Format: Dolby TrueHD, DTS-HD Master Audio
Surround Sound Channel Configuration: 5.1, 7.1
Total Number of HDMI Ports: 2
Compatible Devices: Television
Analog Video Format: NTSC
Number of Channels: 8
Video Output Resolution: 1080p
File Format: AAC, AVI, BMP, GIF, JPEG, MP3, MP4, WAV, WMA
Item Weight: 11.2 pounds
Brand: OPPO
Model Name: BDP-93
Built-In Media: Blu-ray, CD, DVD
UPC: 898072002066
Number of Items: 1
Manufacturer: OPPO Digital, Inc.
Model Number: BDP-93
Mfr Part Number: BDP-93
Warranty Description: 1 Year Parts and Labor
Color: Black
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Top Amazon Reviews
I own a 7.2 Definitive Technology setup, consisting of a Onkyo 5008 and Emotiva XPA-5 Amplifier, 4 Mythos STS's, 1 Mythos center chanel Ten, 2 Gem Xl's and 2 Super cube References. I recently made the purchases to go from a 7.2 to a 9.4 setup adding 2 more Gem XL's and 2 more Super cube References. So to me video and audio quality are everything when it comes to HT. I have read about the flawless reviews of the Oppo for some time now, But the question I have asked on av forums in the past that no one could answer for me is how does it stack up against the PS3. I have a LGBH200 HD DVD/Blu Ray player that has a better picture than my PS3 but my PS3's sound will destroy the LG in a audio competition. So my dilemma was to find a perfect blu ray player with audio that could match or out do my PS3 and a picture that could match or out do my LG. So I went on ahead and purchased the Oppo after much research. It arrived at my house 7 days after I ordered it. I pulled it out of the box hooked it up to my tv and updated it with the latest firmware. It took no more than 20 mts. I was amazed at what I saw and heard the picture was better than my older LG and the audio was outstanding. The sound stage of my music and movies was so much larger than before. So then I burnt some CD's to my PS3 and placed those same CD's in the Oppo so I could switch between inputs on my Receiver and hear the same songs playing at the same time and make comparisons. Wow!!! I kept switching back and forth on both of the players and the Oppo moped up my PS3, my beloved lil PS3 sounded almost puny compared to the Oppo. The PS3 sounded muffled and confined compared to the Oppo. In my lil brain I pictered the the PS3 sputtering along doing 30 mph on the feeder and the Oppo doing 160 mph on the autobahn The Oppo made music sound so much clearer and with such a larger sound stage. I have never heard music or movies sound that good in my entire life. The picture was also much clearer and had more depth than any of the Blu ray players in my house. I saw details in movies that I have never seen before. The Oppo really is a top notch player and will be hard to beat for years to come. This is one piece of Home Theater equipment that will be around for years. I just wish I would have been in the U.S sooner to have bought it earlier. It is solidly built also I am very happy with this purchase, you can't go wrong with this one I highly recommend the Oppo! Oh yeah the Oppo comes with a large and hefty remote too, so incase of a zombie attack or something along those lines while I am in my HT room I can just toss the remote at the head of the 1st intruder and that should buy me the time I need to get my 19 inch home defense 12 gauge shotgun............................UPDATE.........................20 August 2011............................So I have had the full 9.4 setup running for around 3 weeks now and the Oppo does an amazing job with all the speakers running at the same time. It is the Oppo dividing the sound into all the different speakers because the sound isn't the same in all the surround speakers when my PS3 is playing the same movie or music on the same presets on the Onkyo 5008. I have found that since I have been into Home Audio once you get to a certain level, to make small increases in audio quality it can be very expensive. But the Oppo 95 has made a major and vast difference in the Audio quality and even in the Picture quality and it does it at an amazing price.
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Reviewed in the United States on July 30, 2011 by Edward III
I don't own this product yet, but I have been searching for some time now for a high-end universal Blu-ray player which fully supports Blu-ray ISO images (including 3D) - and the OPPO BDP-93 is it for me! The BDP-93 has two USB 2.0 connectors (one front and one rear) along with a rear eSATA (3 Gbit/s) connector, and will support directly attached external drives of up to 2 terabytes for storage/playback of media files (either FAT16, FAT32, or NTFS formatted). This will comfortably hold our current collection of 46 Blu-ray discs, but I would expect to hit the 2 TB limit sometime soon (as our collection grows). To get around this I'll use an external SATA hot-swap enclosure and two swappable 2 TB drives. (I highly recommend the Granite Digital external SATA hot-swap aluminium enclosures for A/V hard drives, plus their eSATA cable is also high quality). The BDP-93 will also act as a DLNA client (not as a server), and is able to stream almost all of the supported media file formats from DLNA servers on your network. (ISO images cannot be streamed). As with nearly all Blu-ray players, the BDP-93 will also allow for an external storage device to be attached for persistent storage of BD-Live content. Other "must have" features of this player for me personally are: - DSD output via HDMI for Super Audio CDs (none of the Sony players I have owned thus far have had this capability). - 2 x HDMI 1.4a outputs (1 x audio to the reciever, 1 x video direct to the TV). - the ability to playback video files at up to 1080p/60 Hz via DLNA streaming (Sony DLNA supports only 720p maximum). - the ability to playback Apple QuickTime .MOV files!!! (Not supported via DLNA, unfortunately). The OPPO Website has the manual available, along with a product Wiki for the BDP-93 (and other players). Also check-out the "Unofficial OPPO BDP-93 Frequently Asked Questions". OPPO customer support is second to none, they have quickly answered all of my questions about the player over the last several days, so I'll be purchasing one soon. The one feature which seems to be lacking for the OPPO players is an iPhone/Android remote control app. Anyway, I can't wait to get my hands on one of these players... ********************* Update 8/26: I ordered my player today. ********************* Update 9/07: Player arrived. ********************* Update 10/2. So, I have been living with the OPPO BDP-93 for almost a month now, and I must say that it has fully lived up to my expectations. Amazing picture quality, and I have watched around 20 or so of my Blu-ray collection as .ISO images on the external hard drive. The player threats them in the same way as an actual Blu-ray disc, which is exactly what I wanted! I used a Samsung Spinpoint F4EG 2 TB SATA2 5400rpm 32 MB Hard Drive HD204UI/Z4 for the ISO images, formatted as NTFS with an allocation unit size of 64K. You must use MBR for the partition table, GPT is not supported. When attached to a PC, this disc can also be defragmented. It won't fragment when in use by the BDP-93 as NTFS is always read-only. For the persistent storage I used a 64GB SSD drive, because unlike a USB flash drive, an SSD has a cache and currently costs about the same. This disc was partitioned as 32GB FAT32 for the persistent storage. (I used the second partition for MPEG4 and Quicktime videos). I haven't tested 3D yet, or using both HDMI outputs, and need to order a longer HDMI cable so that I can split audio to the receiver and video directly to the TV. My current receiver doesn't support DSD unfortunately, but I did test SACD using PCM output via HDMI. I also highly recommend using Blue Echo Solutions hd EZ lock Universal Locking HDMI Cable Adapter as I have had nothing but problems with loose connectors since upgrading to HDMI. (These work on components which have a screw above or below the HDMI connector, which includes the BDP-93, and do a good job of holding my relatively heavy HDMI cables in place). The latest firmware release for the player (9/26) adds new features such as YouTube and Pandora... ********************* Update 11/16. I have been using both of the HDMI outputs for about a month now and this works well. I'm also using the 'Source Direct' output setting on the player, which outputs the content of the disc directly with minimal processing by the BDP-93, bypassing any deinterlacing, noise reduction, detail/edge enhancement, scaling, frame rate conversion, change in aspect ratio, etc. (Colour space conversion is still carried out). The picture quality is simply stunning... My few DVD-A discs work perfectly as ISO images. When using the BDP-93 as an audio player, the 'Pure Audio' button on the remote control turns the video output on/off, which is very useful. ********************* Update 02/3. The current beta version of firmware for this player ***COMPLETELY REMOVES SUPPORT*** for ISO images, which was the main reason for me buying this player in the first place. I'm not at all happy about this, and while I understand that OPPO were pushed into doing this by "the Industry", I would certainly *NO LONGER* give the player a 5 star review. The eSATA connector is a moot point now, and this player now has a lot less to differentiate it from other higher-end players as far as I'm concerned. I shall be looking into a reliable (hopefully Linux based) HTPC solution in future...
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Reviewed in the United States on August 23, 2011 by Darren Lloyd
Because there are over a hundred and seventy, five star reviews on the Oppo BDP-93, I am going to try and approach this from a different angle. Like all other digital (computer) systems, the digital audio and video systems of the late 70's and early 80's, used the two-digit binary number system (0 /1). When digital audio and video first came on the scene, the plan was to use a 16-bit 44.1 KHz file format for audio and an 8-bit file format for video. Because these formats were universal and A to D converters were still in their infancy and were all the same configeration, the price and quality of the player did not matter much, they were all just the same. This is also in part, because the technology was still evolving (but needed some place to start). Engineers and marketing people of the day thought that the 16 bit "wav" file system would exceed what the human ear can actually pick up on and recognize as an audio sound signal and the video was better than any TV at the time. Yes, there were some expensive players made by Macintosh Lab's, NAD, Marantz and others (who make great equipment) but would argue to differ that there's was better, but the bottom line was they were still all putting out the same "standard" resolution audio and video signals. We also must remember do to processor clock speed, memory size and other factors of the day, that this was the best technology available that the consumer would tolerate in cost and would actually pay for. With the advancement and addition of SACD, DVD, Blu-Ray, 24/32 bit "wav" files, 1080p 24Hz video output and other newer file/technology formats, we now know that they were not quite so correct in their original thinking, making the choice of disk player and its capabilities more important now than ever before! In having many CD, players from 1982 and SACD / DVD players from 2001 and because of the above explanation, I accepted but was never completely happy with the cold hard sound of digital audio or eirly low resolution video, on mine or any one else's equipment. I also have a large library of cd's and SACD's but in order to achieve the richer "warmer" sound of music; I was still going back to my record collection on a very high end turntable and styles. Also (in reference to a measure of quality) my top of the line (two channel) JBL and Adcom audio equipment was and still is worth more then most people's cars and has been used in its life time to test other equipment and/or recordings in a professional manner. When it came to earlier video, well with the older TV's it was just OK because 480p video resolution was (like an older wave file) it was what it was and no better. In short, the brand and price of a player did not matter to much, they were all the same!!! Fast forward to December 2010 and I am shopping for a Blu-Ray Player to go with our 42" plasma TV and quickly discover that you can by players from as little as $49.95.00 to as high as $5,000.00 or higher. After researching and learning about Sony, Samsung, LG, Marantz, Deon, Oppo and others, I determined that the Oppo was probably the best player on the market for the money. Placing price and my young kids handling of the equipment before quality, I decided to go with the Sony BDP-S770 unit for $250.00. The unit did what it was supposed to do and the video and sound were good but not great. After six months the Sony player died and between the delays and frustrations with the Sony exchange program (this is another story) I decided to purchase the Oppo BDP-93 universal player while the Sony was being repaired for the second time. What I found most impressive about the player was not its looks, build or specs which are all great; but that the player did "truly" display video and sound content better then any other equipment I or any one else I knew owned!!! While I was setting it up, one of my kids (who could not care less about this kind of stuff) came in the room and took a double-take and WOW when she saw the picture and heard the sound coming from the TV and audio systems. She and I did really notice the difference in both video and sound quality of the Oppo unit. Oppo may not like this to much, but to be fair, if you do not have the level of video and audio equipment capable of producing what the BDP-93 can produce in the way of audio and video qualaty (except for its reliability and there great service) you will not be getting all that you can get out of this unit. This does not mean that you have to spend your 401k on equipment in order to enjoy the Oppo. Just don't connect it to a 1990 480p television and shoe box speaker and expect miracles. Any of today's high resolution televisions and a nice sound system will do well with the unit. In short the bottom line is, the Oppo 93 unit dose display and sound better then other Blu-ray players and if you have or are planning to purchase audio and video equipment capable of reproducing what the Oppo can do, it is well worth the cost. One important point, the Sony is back from the shop and working hopefully for a longer time then six months. I re-hooked it up to the TV and sound system and explained to the kids that they are to use the Sony and not touch the Oppo player, and they are very un-happy about this because the Oppo is much better. Up Date-1: I have not had the time for a formal A/B test between the Oppo and Sony, but every one who has now seen and heard the player can notice a difference between it and there player(s) Up Date-2: I have noted that a lot of people are criticizing the external wireless Ethernet connection design. This idea was brilliant, to say the least. Think about it; the player is housed in a full metal Aluminum / Steel case, not plastic. The external Ethernet connection allows the player to achieve the best possible reception, without interference from its case or any other equipment which may be around or on top of the player. Up Date-3: Since having and hearing this player on my system, other people I know have purchased this player as well and are just as happy as I am with it. Up Date-4: I have since had the time to do an actual A/B test between the Oppo BDP-93 and Sony BDP-S770 units and below are the conclusions to the test, short version. Note, I am not going in to the details of the equipment or source material because it does not matter; it was the same for both systems. As both players do a good job, the Oppo BDP-93 did noticeably out preform the Sony BDP-S770 in both sound and video quality. Although the differences were not night and day (black & white), they were measurable to the level that you can see and hear them without squinting your eyes or stretching your neck and ears out to hear and see the difference. The most significant difference was in the detail in both video and sound. The video quality was a little sharper but what was more noticeable, were the more natural colors of the picture. The same was true for the Oppo's sound quality as well. It is in the details! When listing to music some instruments (by design of the music) are more noticeably pronounced than other instruments in the arrangement are. The Oppo unit did a much better job of letting you know that these more subtle sounds (instruments) are present in the music without artificially enhancing the sound signal. There was also a better pronunciation of the "breathing" of the instruments. The term breathing refers to when you can hear the subtle after tones of the instrument once a note or set of notes have been played. For example, a finger sliding across the frets of a guitar or the after harmonics of a piano cord is struck by the hammer are the after effects of a live instrument. In conclusion, the Oppo BDP-93 was more accurate and true to life making it more enjoyable to the eyes and ears.
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Reviewed in the United States on August 5, 2011 by Sound Engineer
I bought the Oppo BDP-93 to replace my venerable Playstation 3 60GB original, which died during the Playstation Network outage. A new PS3 will not play multichannel SACD discs, while the Oppo does. The Oppo also plays a bunch of other stuff, like HDCD and DVD-Audio. The network streaming ability is close to what the PS3 did, but the Netflix on the Oppo is only 2-channel, not DD 5.1 like on the PS3. Presumably there will be an upgrade for this. Oppo did add Vudu in a beta firmware upgrade. I found it worked well for a streaming service, but HDX movies rent for $5.99 or more. Missing is a YouTube app and Amazon On-Demand. You would think Amazon would be looking to get on more platforms, or they will never compete with Netflix. YouTube goes without saying. Because I'm still using an older A/V receiver, I have to use the multichannel analog outputs to get my DTS HD Master Audio and Dolby True HD playback. The subwoofer output is weak compared to the optical Toslink output. When I first installed it, the subwoofer output would not even light up the subwoofer until I figured out it wasn't waking up the subwoofer's stand-by mode. There is a High/Low switch on the subwoofer that fixed the problem in the High setting. However, the optical output still has stronger lows using the same speaker calibration setup. The higher frequencies do sound better with HD codecs than with the core codecs. I figure a new A/V receiver is in my future so I can get everything over HDMI instead of the multichannel analog outputs. I doubt anyone will be looking to buy SACD's, DVD-A's and HDCD discs unless they buy something like the Oppo and are curious. However if someone already has some SACD's and wants to play them in multichannel mode, this is the most cost effective method to do so. The BD player is excellent, and the networking is good and hopefully will be better with upgrades.
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Reviewed in the United States on July 12, 2011 by Amazon Customer
I have been reading about Oppo for 1-1/2 Years on various blogs and internet sites. I have been wanting to get a Blu-Ray Player that had the best DVD Upscaler to enjoy my movie collection that have not yet been replaced with Blu Rays. I finally got my new BDP93 yesterday and set it up in a matter of a few minutes. The OSD (On-Screen Display)was so user friendly and the Easy Set up took me through the most basic set up steps. Oppo really pays attention to the fine details from the way they package the player to the beatiful UI on the set up screens and Home Page. Most Blu-Ray Players have a UI that is not presented in Hi-Def clarity. Yes, a small detail but shows the companies obsession and passion to being the best. I don't have a 3D TV set yet so I cannot cooment on 3D quality, but I am impressed that Oppo included 2 HDMI Outputs for those that dont have a 1.4v HDMI Recievier so that sound can be directed to the reciever and a 3D Video signal can be sent to the 3D TV Display. You will always want your Video Signal coming from the HDMI 1 port as that one takes advantage of the advanced QDEO Video Processor. Setting up the Wireless Connection to my Dual Band N Router was a breeze, no problems encountered here. The Video on Blu Rays was OMG! and the DVD Upscale using the DNR and Sharpness Settings was also OMG!Hands down the best video ouput I have seen for upscaled DVD's. Star Wars IV was beautiful, I think as good as many streaming supposed HD sites with the exception of VUDU which is 1080P streaming. My Samsung 63" Plasma has never looked better! I am awaiting a few SACD's to see how good the audio processor is for Multi-Channel Sound. Movie Audio on Dolby True HD and DTS Master Audio was spot on excellent. Finally a component that is worthy of my Yamaha RX-V1900 and Klipsch Speakers. The build of the BDP93 is solid, it just says High End Component. The Disk Tray is Smooth and quiet as well as the playback. The player doesnt even get warm. It also has a RS232 Port for Home Installers setting up High End Systems. Oppo is still in the process of developing some features that were not quite ready for market such as the Network functions for home media and NAS Servers to share files; but has plenty of media options from USB Drives and port for a SATA Drive. My only minor gripe that Oppo wil fix in the future is more streaming options other than Netflix and Blockbuster OnDemand whom neither stream in Full HD or 5.1 Surround Sound. Netflix is stil 720P. I am hoping they add VUDU On Demand as that is full 1080P HD and 5.1 Surround Sound. Overall, I just love this player. It was well worth the research and wait. My weekend will be filled with watching movies; and nice that a few could actually be on DVD vs. Blu Ray. *;o)
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Reviewed in the United States on January 7, 2011 by bclark56
As there are already over two hundred prior reviews for this player, I expect few will bother to read mine. Nonetheless, I should like to make a few comments about the BDP-93. I was one of the people who was a beta-tester for this player, having received my first one from Oppo themselves immediately upon its being made available to us testers. I have upgraded my player each and every time a new firmware release (including the beta ones) were introduced. While there were a very few anomalies present when I first got it, these have all been corrected. (I sent some examples of problems to the Oppo technical department and they were VERY responsive to me; they corrected in a short time all the problems I demonstrated to them. At one point I sent them a disc containing some FLAC files with which I was having some trouble. They verified my findings and fixed the problem.) I liked this player so much that, at the beginning of the year, I bought a second one (this time from Amazon). It too functions perfectly (and has also been updated as firmware releases have been made available). Playback of Blu-ray discs (of which I now own four, including Wings [Blu-ray] and Hugo (Three-disc Combo: Blu-ray 3D / Blu-ray / DVD / Digital Copy), which arrived today, is exemplary; ditto for DVDs. The picture quality is just superb. (While the Hugo disc set includes a 3D Blu-ray disc and the Oppo is, of course, 3D capable, I do not, as yet, have a 3D video projector. Maybe someday ...) Playback of CDs and, especially, SACDs is nothing short of fantastic, the best I have ever heard. But I do not use my players primarily for disc playback; rather, they are used as media players. If you are familiar with such players, you know that most of them (the good ones, at least) are VERY expensive and many of them will not play ALL types of music and/or video files and/or discs. This one WILL play all of them, and superbly, and it will do so at a reasonable price. Plus, of course, it plays every kind of 12cm disc introduced thus far. I encode much of my music into the FLAC file format and many of my DVDs and Blu-rays into the MKV (H.264) file format. I keep these files on separate Western Digital My Passport Essential SE 1 TB USB 2.0 Portable External Hard Drive (Midnight Black) external hard drives. While my initial player had some problems with my FLAC files, as mentioned above, there are now absolutely NO problems with any of them. And watching movies in MKV format from a drive is no different in either image or sound quality from watching the original DVD or Blu-ray. (Plus, when watching movies from a Matroska Video file, I do not have to endure all the menus, FBI warnings, previews, etc.) As I stated above, this player can handle any currently-known file format and, at its price, is the lowest-cost such media player of which I'm aware. (It has certainly handled every kind of file I have thrown at it!) Placing my music and movies on hard drives makes keeping them and carrying them about much more convenient and space-efficient. I actually have two drives each for my music and movies; the second one is, of course, a backup "just in case." On my movie hard drive, so far, I have well over one hundred feature length films stored (many of them in HD format) - and I can carry the drive containing all of them in my pocket! (And the drive still has plenty of room to spare!) If I were to start playing my music from my music hard drive (mostly FLAC files but also some MP3s) and I started on the first of the month and just let it play without stopping, at the end of the month I still would be nowhere nearly finished! (And this drive too has plenty of additional room.) And that's just what I've encoded so far. Obviously, as I continue to encode music and movies, I shall require more drives (or larger capacity ones) but, as of right now, and for at least the near future, I'm set. My two OPPO BDP-93 Universal Network 3D Blu-ray Disc Players are each connected to separate high-fidelity sound systems (and video projectors) and they have become my primary source for listening and viewing either from discs or, mostly, from hard drives (though I do have to say that SACD discs and, of course, LPs still sound better than FLAC files created from CDs or the CDs themselves). I just plug either my music drive or my movie drive into the Oppo's USB 2.0 input, and I can play away! Even just a few years ago, who would have ever thought ... ? If you are a sound enthusiast as I am and would like to own a media player, there is nothing else even close to its price which will match, much less surpass, the Oppo BDP-93 both in formats accepted (discs and files) as well as in ease of use. (Netflix streaming and some other similar offerings including Pandora [though unfortunately not Amazon Pay-per-view or Amazon Prime] are bonuses.) And while I'm fairly certain that the Oppo BDP-95 Blu Ray DVD Player would sound somewhat better, look at the price differential. Only you could determine if it were worth it to you. Thus I can recommend this BDP-93 as highly as possible. If I could give it 10 stars, I would. And if I could give it 100 stars, I'd give it that! In conclusion, as I stated in my title to these comments, if you want the very best in media players, in my opinion, this is it. I hope that these comments were of some interest to you and I thank you for reading and considering them. Lawrence H. Bulk
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Reviewed in the United States on February 27, 2012 by Lawrence H. Bulk
The bad first: Any and all comparisons here are to my $200 Sony BDP-S570 Blu-ray player (latest model bdp-S580 is $134). Disk Load Time: Oppo 39 seconds, Sony 41 seconds: (Sorry but the Sony wins read on) Bluray player Main Menu load time: Oppo: 25-30seconds, Sony 5 seconds. The Oppo-93 is actually even more painfully slow at times and seems to go through 2 splash screens and a reboot before you can get to the Main Menu. Also on the Oppo if you set it up to auto play (a disk) and there is no disk, it is not smart enough to default to the main menu (it just sits at the splash screen), the Sony loads fast and directly to the Main Menu without a disk. Internet content: For me, Sony hands down slams the Oppo with Amazon, Pandora and a slew of others that Oppo does not have. Yes this could be personal preference and Oppo has Vudu and Blockbuster where the Sony does not. But I have Amazon Prime and Netflix raised their rates so I left them. Without Amazon and Pandora I still must use my Sony bluray Bugs: After the latest firmware update: BDP9X-52-0707, the player has strange bugs. Disks do not play sometimes and the tray drawer opens automatically after closing. When switching from TV to Blu-Ray on my home theater the Oppo screen turns red and all content is red and washed out as well. Both bugs are fixed by powering the Oppo on and off. Oppo customer service confirmed the red phase bug was common so it is not my receiver, besides the HDMI is direct to TV and there were no problems like this before the firmware upgrade. Hopefully they will come out with a new firmware update soon or I will ask for a warranty replacement. Now for the good if you've read this far. Test setup: Marantz SR 8002, Panasonic 54 1080P Plasma, 2 Avatar Blu-Ray disks paused at the same scene on each player - this scene showed vibrant colors, blacks, and sunlight. Results: On the 1st test, the pictures were exactly the same, no difference in any of the fields. I couldn't believe this and realized that feeding both HDMI's to my Marantz with a single HDMI out to the TV gave the exact same picture. Problem Marantz SR 8002. In comes one of my favorite features of the Oppo-93. A second HDMI out. This allows you to have Audio go through to your AV receiver and Video direct to your TV When I set the Oppo up this way the picture quality was noticeably more vibrant, and clear. Note: The Sony Bluray going direct to TV was also more vibrant and clear (same as Oppo) but I cannot run the player this way with only 1 HDMI out. Audio is more subjective but I do think the Home Theater soundstage is better with the Oppo Oppo supports a slew of other disk formats but I don't have any of these. I bought this primarily as a bluray player but also for Netflix and internet streaming. Note I use a hardwire Ethernet since this is the fastest and best quality streaming. I did not compare wireless speeds between the two. All in all I wish I had returned this within the 30 days for a refund. For $500 I am disappointed in the bugs, internet offerings and even in Oppo customer service which should replace my blu-ray or come out with another firmware update. The firmware updates are pretty slow and I believe there has only been one (possibly 2) since I bought this March 4, 2011 (it is now Sept 24, 2011).
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Reviewed in the United States on August 28, 2011 by Amazon Customer
I have only had the unit for a day and am completely impressed by the ease of setup and quality of the player. This isn't my first blu ray player and the price did make me think twice about the purchase, but I have no reservations in recommending it. It may not have integrated wireless, but does include a wireless dongle, and an HDMI cable, so if your setup is HDMI ready, you don't need anything but what comes in th box. Like others have said, after starting it up, it took me through an easy setup procedure, but you need to manually access the network settings to turn on the wireless and select the network (and enter a key if needed to access your network). Instructions for doing this were easy to understand in the enclosed manual. After that, it took about 5 minutes to download and install the firmware update. I have a much less expensive Sony player in another room, and even after paying about $60 for the wireless dongle that is supposed to work with that unit, and was never able to get it to find my network (every other device used in that room indicates a very strong signal). Finally I am able to access blu ray content that you need the internet for! The first disk I played showed a noticable difference in sound quality from my other players - absolutely amazing with my surround system. Picture is good, but since I have an older TV that can't use the HDMI connection, I am stuck with the component video. I am sure it would be better with a more updated TV set (mine is high definition but is also at least 10 years old). Streaming a movie from Netflix also worked easily and seemed to download faster than the Wii I had been using. For the price, you expect flawless performance, and with this player, you get it. It looks like it may be worth every penny.
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Reviewed in the United States on December 11, 2011 by L. Santos