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Post by yves on Apr 21, 2014 19:13:52 GMT -5
Hi yves How does Darbee ruin picture quality? I heard it was great! Pretty much everything it does could have been done in filming and post production if that had been the director's intention. Admittedly, the end result of a film project is not necessarily always an exact match of what the director wanted it to be, and, on top of that, the person who does the watching may have certain personal preferences. However, the Darbee isn't clearvoyant enough to reliably predict any of those discrepancies, and, during most scenes in a 1080p film (to me, anyway..) it just makes things look overly "photoshopped", i.e. way too unnatural to even begin to justify the added sense of resolution that it creates. |
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Post by andyman on Apr 21, 2014 19:37:00 GMT -5
Geez when ever I seem close to a decision I get dragged in a different direction. I do find everybody very helpful in the lounge though. I think I spend to much time here. Lol
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Post by thevinoman on Apr 21, 2014 21:00:14 GMT -5
Geez when ever I seem close to a decision I get dragged in a different direction. I do find everybody very helpful in the lounge though. I think I spend to much time here. Lol I know exactly what you mean....everyone has different tastes and views, and amounts of disposable income....keep that in mind.... |
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Post by cd on Apr 22, 2014 7:42:33 GMT -5
Since Oppo gives you 30 days in-home trial, why not get the 103D and see if you like it?
Islandman commented: "If using the XMC-1 DACs why not get a player even less expensive than the 103?"
Because with an Oppo you are not only getting a better built player (pick up an Oppo and then pick up a Sony, etc. The Oppos are *solid* machines, not cheap, lightweight plastic), you are also getting Oppo's legendary customer support. In addition, the Oppo units hold their value *much* better than any others. You can easily sell a used Oppo for 80-90% of what you paid for it. Try doing that with a Sony, Pioneer, etc. - you'll be lucky to get 1/2 of what you paid. And the Oppos sell *fast*, most Oppos for sale on Audiogon are sold within the 1st few days.
When it comes to universal players, the Oppos are, hands down, the best in the business...
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Post by KeithL on Apr 22, 2014 8:50:20 GMT -5
I'd go with the Oppo 103. All Blu-Ray players are not the same..... and you don't necessarily use them for just Blu-Ray's either. I agree with everything good everybody's said about Oppo... their players are reliable, I assume their customer service is good (I've personally never needed it), and they are excellent transports for standard Blu-Rays and CDs. However, I would add one more virtue - one that I call "universality". I download lots of videos from various sources, and they end up being in a wide variety of formats ("formats" like AVI are really what we call wrappers - and the video inside them can be in all sorts of different CODECs); quite simply, while nothing but a full fledged computer running something like VLC can play EVERY video file I have, my Oppo plays MOST of them perfectly. I'll admit, I haven't actually been keeping score, but I do have a folder of favorite music videos that I've accumulated over the years from various and sundry sources - some in very odd and/or not quite standard formats - and, whenever I get a new player, I plug in that stick to see how well it works. I've quite simply never seen another player that can play as many of my assorted videos as well as the Oppo, and that's saying a lot (what good's a player that won't play what you want to play?) The experience I've always had with Oppos is that they not only play "normal" discs very well, but that they also play the widest variety of video files well. To me, that is enough to justify the higher cost. (I've certainly never been disappointed by an Oppo.) If using the XMC-1 DACs why not get a player even less expensive than the 103? |
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Post by rcohen on Apr 22, 2014 9:53:27 GMT -5
From a PC, JRiver Media Player with HQ video decoding enabled.
I love VLC, but JRiver does better in the quality department for both audio and video.
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