Another bulletproof Oppo
"$500 for a Blu-ray player?" my postal carrier asked as he delivered my Oppo BDP-103 earlier this month. But this is not your run-of-the-mill Blu-ray player, I said. Later, I invited him in to listen and watch. "Oh," he said.
As I mentioned in my BDP-93 review, Oppo has created quite a name for itself with their Blu-ray players for home theater devotees. Priced between extraordinarily high end equipment and players that you can buy at warehouse clubs, the Oppo units have wowed users by truly being worth the extra dollars while providing a high-end experience. So here we have Oppo's brand new BDP-103. We're already several firmware iterations beyond the originally shipping version and I haven't yet run into anything distressing. I only chuckled about the green line that appeared on the left side of the screen saver screen, which I haven't noticed lately and was probably fixed in the last firmware release. As I write this, I'm listening to a "radio" station I created with...
Outstanding Picture Quality and Blu-ray Speed...Totally Worth it!
I have a Samsung BDP-3600 Blu-ray player hooked to a Sony DA5600ES Receiver (HDMI 1.4) which is connect to my 52" Samsung "Touch of Color" TV. I bought the "Sound of Music" Blu-ray for my wife and I was disappointed to find out that my BDP-3600 wouldn't play it. I had the latest firmware update and it still would get stuck trying to load the main menu after several minutes of waiting...very frustrating and disappointing.
I figured that new state of the art Blu-ray disks are probably using advanced Blu-ray features older disks simply weren't. So I needed to buy a new Blu-ray player that would handle everything.
When I buy anything I try to get the good stuff. When I bought my BDP-3600 it was highly rated but to be clear there were no affordable "high-end" Blu-ray players at the time. Now Oppo has released the BDP-103 which by everything I read was a high-end player with outstanding picture quality and features. I took a gamble and bought it hoping it would...
WORTH EVERY PENNY!
OK, there are people who think paying $500.00 or more for a Blu Ray Player are crazy and there are people who think it is worth every penny. I am one who believes it's worth it, but it really comes down to two things.
One, can you afford it?.. and two what are you hooking it up to? I have a large theater in my home with a 10' by 7' screen and before I went HD I had a Denon 3910 DVD player which still works better than any other unit I have ever owned or operated.
To pay the insane price of $900.00 (and that was a crazy good price for the unit at the time) was unthinkable for someone like me who believed most of this stuff was all hype.
I did a side by side comparison with standard DVD players at the time and to make a long story short, it blew the competition away.
My first impression upon opening the box was that it was packaged really nice with a slip cover tote bag for transporting the unit and a box with HDMI cables and various other...
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