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BD Player Oppo and UpConversion

I am somewhat of a newbie on this so hopefully the forum will be patient with me.

I am trying to decide if I should replace my current inexpensive Sony blurray player with Oppo BD-103.

I watch a mix of blu ray movies, some older DVDs and stream NetFlix. For music I am mostly use an 1st Generation Apple TV where I ripped all of my CDs in lossless format.

My TV is a Pioneer 50" Elite and receiver is an Integra 7.9.

I am little confused about which component handles what best - meaning let the Bluray player handle the video part and the receiver do it's part. However, if I do watch an older DVD would it make sense to have a " better " blurry player process the image. Similarly with blurray movies. However, someone told me that all Blurays are already 1080p so there is no processing to be done.

Also what about sound

Thanks a lot!!
golfercurt
admranger
144 posts
 
The surround sound codecs in the newer Blu-ray discs aren't supported by your Integra 7.9 is my guess.

Therefore, run analog 7.1 (or 5.1) to your Integra for the audio signal is my suggestion.

The video can go via hdmi directly to your Elite.
mgattmch
576 posts
 
I agree with the previous post. In fact this is what I do; I use an Oppo 105 to
perform the audio decoding to analog 5.1 into a Krell HTS 7.1 and direct HDMI
feed (video only) from the Oppo to a Sony VPL-VW85 projector. The Krell HTS
7.1 is just acting as a 5.1 channel volume control. The results to my ears and
eyes are excellent.

You are correct, all blu-ray disc are 1080p, in addition virtually all also have HD
audio (DTS HD Master Audio or Dolby TrueHD either in 5.1 or 7.1 format, not
much of the latter). Whereas DVD is in 480i format with standard 5.1 DTS or
Dolby Digital audio (not lossless HD as used in blu-ray disc). For best results
upconverting 480i DVD images to 1080p, let the Oppo do this automatically.
The results are often very impressive. Not quite as good as native 1080p blu-
ray, but certainly better than regular 480i.
golfercurt OP
16 posts
 
Thank you for the responses.

To clarify my question - will there be a difference in picture quality using the Oppo vs. the less expensive blu-ray player and letting my Integra receiver upgrade the picture?

thanks again
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