I never liked Samsung players. I think Oppo dropped out because the parent company saw it as a niche segment catering to audio/videophiles and the profit wasn’t there.
I guess for me it’s Sony or Panasonic now.
They say streaming is killing the format, but Blu-ray still outshines streaming in both picture and sound quality.
Quality of sound and picture? What's THAT?
I show guests my OLED. OK? Now What? are you BLIND? Just look at that picture!
I was at the neighbors yesterday. I saw he had a SUB sitting in the garage. Wife apparently evicted it from the TV room.
The daughter was out doing something in the garage and I asked her 'Does movie sound quality count?' You might have assumed
I was speaking Middle English or High German for all the response. Answer? I say, apparently NOT.
True that BR has terrific sound. But Fewer and Fewer have the facility or setup to actually appreciate it. Have you heard the SQ out of a modern TV?
I've heard better Clock Radios. And don't get me started on most sound bars. When I (very briefly) sold this stuff, it only got even a little interesting at
about the 500$ price point.
How many REAL PRIME manufacturers remain in the BR player or 4K player market? 3 or 4, including the Chinese who probably source 3/4 of the 'brands' from
a couple factories?
Look at reviews. Once you get above maybe 80 or 100 product reviews, you can start seeing meaningful patterns. And once you are at THAT threshold, you might
even see 12% one-star reviews and see a pattern there, too. Not good.
IMO, OPPO dumped out because ALL the lines were heading DOWN. Number of units. Quality from suppliers. Reliability no matter what they did. Profit margin.
ALL downward trend.
When we were down to 3 Plasma TV manufacturers, Panasonic STILL came out with what was the Best Set EVER. But no help. 1080 was dead and they couldn't
make a 4k plasma for a price they could sell it for, regardless of profit. LG dropped LAST after Panasonic and Sanyo(?) or Samsung(?).
And the plasma sets at the end were STILL better than any of the LCD / LED stuff available in any number of measureables. So What/