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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
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The reason Oppo has gained so much attention is that they were the very first company seven years ago to use the top Video processor chip on the market from Anchor Bay. These processors at the time were only found in the top players on the market that sold for $3K and above. At the time Oppo
pissed the high end companies off since their $400 players would give you the same picture quality as a player costing $5K. Today they are using the Marvel processor chips which are used in just about every high end player including Ayre's $10K player and Primare's $5500.00 player and the top player from McIntosh.
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dbphd
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avgoround writes, "picture quality alone (which, btw, should be the only real thing that matters for a Bluray player)"

I suspect he hasn't heard music Blu-rays with DTS MA HD or Dolby True HD; in fact, I suspect his experience with the video or audio of an Oppo 105 is nil, and that his posts are just rantings.

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avgoround OP
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I'm just tellin you all! ..25 years from now, we'll all be watching 64K "pixel-less" virtual reality, 4D Holographic, floating images in the middle of our livingspaces, AND WE'LL STILL BE READING ARTICLES ABOUT ULTRA-HIGH DATA OPPO DIGITAL MEDIA STREAMING BOXES! Tellin ya! ..it's gunna happen. :-0

*On a more important note -in the year 2019 Oppo goes public, and immediately get's bought up by ailing former tech giant Apple! (desparate attempt to salvage the sliding marketshare former tech giant) -The stock symble "OPPO" quickly doubles in price. Savy investors, Make a note of that...
mallen123
110 posts
 
Ditto to what Dbphd just posted about the OP.

My experience for what it's worth :
My 95 was light yrs better in sound than my cheap Samsung BDP wireless, and picture was better.

I just hooked up a 105 and it's better sounding than the 95, and the picture also looks better.

My PC's ALAC files thru the async USB input actually sounds better than the CD's thru the 95. This and the volume control feature really make this a high value per feature digital pre amp.

Chassis construction, power supply, higher quality parts in general do make a difference in sound and picture quality of any source.

Oppo has brought much of the higher end video and SACD performance into a mid fi price which is why they have been so popular.
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noble100
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Avgoround,

I think you should just breakdown and buy an OPPO. Instead of getting aggravated every time you hear or read users praising them, or when reading another gushing review, you could just smile, nod in satisfaction and say "damn right" or "amen" to yourself. Take pride and be glad that you were smart enough to recognize and purchase such a high quality product at such a bargain price.

BTW, I don't even own an OPPO yet but I do know I want one. Buy one and turn your frown around. Take your lemons and make some delicious lemonade. All this praise for all these OPPO models, from both users and reviewers, has to tell you something, right?

On the other hand, though, all this praise could just be a big charade orchestrated to ensure that you got your panties in a bunch. However, I nether confirm nor deny this, as far as you know.

Disclaimer: I may be, or may not be, affiliated with OPPO's Marketing dept. assigned to making sure that Avgoround purchases one of our products. But I think all of my efforts may have been in vain. I apologize if our marketing strategy and tactics were overly aggressive in your case. I just don't understand why you are so resistant to buying one of our fine products.


Thank you,
Tim
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