Has the Oppo carried the AV industry?


I looked through my last Widescreen Review magazine the other day (March issue), and I came accross the latest Oppo Bluray player review -didn't read it. In fact, I refuse to read yet another all-universe, all-everything, "the end-all-be-all", "greatest thing since sliced bread", "MUST HAVE", "there is none better", "will revolutionize your home theaters picture and sound quality, to world class levels" article, about the mythical Oppo player!!!..can't do it..WON'T DO IT! NO!!!
Over the last 13 years, I probably honestly read two (maybe three) entire Oppo Universal disc player reviews -start to finish -and other articles discussing Oppo mods and upgrades, articles/discussion that REFER to an Oppo player, as part of some reference system, and inevitably, I find that the Oppo reviews will JUST WON'T GO AWAY, APPARENTLY! They're like bunnies! They keep producing more of their kind, whether you want them to or not!
Lol -I'm just simply amazed by how much attention and press that a lowely disc player has obviously gotten over the years! Surely, owning an Oppo player must bee a system transforming experience! ..a "must have" item, no less. I must have missed out..cause I never owned one. In fact, never really cared to own one! I've been dazled by how good the quality of video processing has been in all the plain-Jane disc players, flat pannel display's, and even high end video projectors I've owned continue to supply me wiht! But, apparently, every one else bought the Oppo. Cause I surely, honesly, can't remember a year that's gone by in the past decade, where I don't rememer NOT reading somwhere about an Oppo player!
It's really felt, to me, like home entertainment AV products, and home theater in general, have been on a "demand" slide over the past decade! 7.1 and 1080p, Bluray, etc, have all been around long anough now, that it's kind of a "been there, had that" kind of feeling I get when I think about this hobby anymore. I guess life and priorities has weened me away from being a die-hard enthusiest now-a-days. And yet, I can't get the Oppo topic out of my thoughts, whenever I look at my gear!..and I don't think the hobby is going to let me forget much about it neither. lol!
Anyone else get the oppinion that this product surely has been single most important product in the AV industry, these past 10+ years?! Because it's certainly been the most talked about brand/topic I can remember reading about, if nothing else.
I really do think they'll be making Oppo's for the next 100 years, period! -even if they'll do 4k upscaling, 4k/8k future exact pixel mapping, wifi-HD streaming, toast your bread and make you breakfast, whatever! I'm thinking that these Oppo's just must have been so good, that no serious enthusiest, whatever-phile, or system owner should have ever considered "going without!"...otherwise, they missed out!?
Well anyway, anyone here who's used the Oppo think that the product has been a make-or-break, indespensible, product that really made all the differnence to the picture quality they achieved, or the sonic experience they got using these things? (I'm tickled pink by the digital AV processing advances I've gotten just upgrading processor and displays, year after year) I just want to somehow hear that I really missed out all these years, and the only important consideration I should have made was BUYING the Oppo! Cause at the very least, I'm not totaly convinced that Apple and Oppo aren't the same company, ..secretly.
100 more years of Oppo players?..servers?? -probably
avgoround
hi
i have oppo93 , denon 2500 n pioneer 09 now . i would say oppo was not even close to denon 2500 .the video part u may say more clear but not solid as 2500 . audio part was huge differences , its at least 2 grade lower than denon 2500 , n of course no comperison to pioneer 09fd .if u ask if i will pay over $1000 for 105 , i think thats crazy for a china player modify from "po po go"

thanks


I find this thread most entertaining and of course ridiculous. Oppo's success has been a consumer-driven success, unlike, let's say, a product like Magico speakers that have seen countless ''reviews'' in the Absolute Sound. You would think that Absolute Sound is part owner of the company the way they constantly put the spotlight on Magico.

Oppo is an audio fan's dream come true. Think about it. Audio gear that has a higher perceived value than what you paid for it.

Everything about the Oppo experience is first class. Packaging is smart and efficient - even has the model printed on the internal surfaces of the box. The player itself is beautifully put together. It has endless features and SOUNDS great. Also, when was the last time you had a real owner's manual that actually looked like one? It's a real book, not just some el-cheapo spiraled job. Buy a multi-thousand $ Ayon and see how cheap manuals can get versus the price of the gear.

I unpacked my new Oppo BDP-105 in the new SILVER edition last week. Wow. Believe me, you could NEVER feel short-changed lifting this hefty machine and placing it front and center on your rack.

The Oppo is a rarity in this crazy hobby - getting your money's worth. It more than deserves all the attention it got so far - even if it irritates some people who cannot fully appreciate or understand what this company has done for the hobby.

Avgoround: Just buy one instead of all this rant about something you have no experience with. I mean - sure - you can have an opinion on gear you don't own (we all do), but when it sound's borderline vendetta with all those comments you made about Oppo - something's fishy!
Avgoround: Just buy one instead of all this rant about something you have no experience with. I mean - sure - you can have an opinion on gear you don't own (we all do), but when it sound's borderline vendetta with all those comments you made about Oppo - something's fishy!

Amen
Oppo is the ONLY player I know that can do CD/HDCD, SACD, DVD-A, PCM/DSD DAC (FLAC/WAV, etc), Blu-Ray audio. All this besides doing video.
I would like to know if anyone has compared a Marantz SA11-S3 Vs this Oppo 105. It may be scales of economy - but wish Oppo made a AUDIO ONLY player.
Avgoround,

I wrote this to you back in April:

"I have no affiliation with OPPO.

I do want to congratulate you, though, on coming to your senses and deciding in such a rational manner to gain the numerous inherent benefits obtained by purchasing an OPPO universal player.

Since I'm going to eventually buy an OPPO as well, we can be each other's huckleberries. Soon, you'll be hearing or reading someone singing the praises of OPPO and you'll just be nodding in agreement and smiling. Your panties will also be completely un-bunched and you'll be at peace with the universe.

Enjoy,
Tim"

Just thought you might want to know I meant what I said about Oppo.
I bought an Oppo bdp-105 a few weeks ago and I'm loving it.

Hope you're pleased with yours, too,
Tim

vgoround,