hammie
12-24-2005, 11:32 AM
Well, I got my Oppo yesterday afternoon and played with it a lot since then.
The Oppo's DVI output is connected to the HDMI input on a Toshiba 34HFX84 television. I have both Digital Coax and Multi-channel for audio to my receiver.
The kids wanted a movie before I got a chance to calibrate the input so we watched Madagascar. It looked very dark but I chalked it up to basically just plug and playing it.
After the kids went to bed, I put my DVE to work.
The first thing I noticed was that when the screen changed, a shadow of the previous screen was left on the page (The white images and text remained faintly on the next screen resembling burn-in). This also occurred when the screen saver kicked in. Oppo uses an oval shape and when I came back from getting a snack I noticed that I had oval shapes all over my screen. I chalked this up to the fact that I was not done calibrating it and may, just maybe, I needed to play around with the settings to correct this.
I went in and got everything set up. Same results with the shadowing. I chaecked to see if it anything changed if I changed from 1080i to 480p, 540p, or 720p. Nothing. Still the same results. I also went in and changed a number of the internal video settings such as TrueLife, CCS, and noise reduction. Same results. Nothing was changed.
After all the calibration was completed (and the shadowing was still present), I tried out some DVD's to see what it would produce.
First up was Fifth Element. I noticed a definite increase in the PQ from my old 7 year old Sony changer. I also thought I saw some trailing (where the image motion is shown behind it as it moves across the screen). All in all, I was very pleased.
Next up was Black Hawk Down (Superbit Version). This movie was extremely good. The dark scenes were detailed and the bright scenes with the explosions were also detailed. Extremely pleased. Surprising, I did not notice too much trailing or shadowing with this movie (although there was some).
Last was Finding Nemo. I though it was very detailed but the trailing was horrible. From the opening scene where the Disney castle scrolls in to everytime a fishes fin moved, there was a horrible trail. It really distracted me. The true test that my old DVD player failed at horribly was the scene where they were in the dark part of the ocean and the Anglerfishes light comes into view. The light was completely smooth as it went from the center to the outer dark most edges. My old DVD player made this look like it was a dartboard with the rings. The trailing varied from object to object. Marlin and Nemo had the worst, while the dentists arms had the least.
Not sure if this is an issue with the player or just the combination of the Oppo with my Toshiba television.
Right now I have mixed feelings regarding it. I can really see the increase in details but the trailing and shadowing really disappoints me. I may see if my local Denon dealer will let me take home and demo a 2910 to compare the two. That was the one I was originally going to purchase before I read the Secrets and Audioholics reviews (as well as a bunch of positive posts on various forums.
-Lou
The Oppo's DVI output is connected to the HDMI input on a Toshiba 34HFX84 television. I have both Digital Coax and Multi-channel for audio to my receiver.
The kids wanted a movie before I got a chance to calibrate the input so we watched Madagascar. It looked very dark but I chalked it up to basically just plug and playing it.
After the kids went to bed, I put my DVE to work.
The first thing I noticed was that when the screen changed, a shadow of the previous screen was left on the page (The white images and text remained faintly on the next screen resembling burn-in). This also occurred when the screen saver kicked in. Oppo uses an oval shape and when I came back from getting a snack I noticed that I had oval shapes all over my screen. I chalked this up to the fact that I was not done calibrating it and may, just maybe, I needed to play around with the settings to correct this.
I went in and got everything set up. Same results with the shadowing. I chaecked to see if it anything changed if I changed from 1080i to 480p, 540p, or 720p. Nothing. Still the same results. I also went in and changed a number of the internal video settings such as TrueLife, CCS, and noise reduction. Same results. Nothing was changed.
After all the calibration was completed (and the shadowing was still present), I tried out some DVD's to see what it would produce.
First up was Fifth Element. I noticed a definite increase in the PQ from my old 7 year old Sony changer. I also thought I saw some trailing (where the image motion is shown behind it as it moves across the screen). All in all, I was very pleased.
Next up was Black Hawk Down (Superbit Version). This movie was extremely good. The dark scenes were detailed and the bright scenes with the explosions were also detailed. Extremely pleased. Surprising, I did not notice too much trailing or shadowing with this movie (although there was some).
Last was Finding Nemo. I though it was very detailed but the trailing was horrible. From the opening scene where the Disney castle scrolls in to everytime a fishes fin moved, there was a horrible trail. It really distracted me. The true test that my old DVD player failed at horribly was the scene where they were in the dark part of the ocean and the Anglerfishes light comes into view. The light was completely smooth as it went from the center to the outer dark most edges. My old DVD player made this look like it was a dartboard with the rings. The trailing varied from object to object. Marlin and Nemo had the worst, while the dentists arms had the least.
Not sure if this is an issue with the player or just the combination of the Oppo with my Toshiba television.
Right now I have mixed feelings regarding it. I can really see the increase in details but the trailing and shadowing really disappoints me. I may see if my local Denon dealer will let me take home and demo a 2910 to compare the two. That was the one I was originally going to purchase before I read the Secrets and Audioholics reviews (as well as a bunch of positive posts on various forums.
-Lou
