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In the Thread: Oppo DVD player as a transport.

Post Subject: Video data is easier to process?Posted by Romy the Cat on: 1/18/2013

steverino wrote:
I should think that video data is easier to process than audio data.

That is an interesting observation. I do not think that video data is easier to process but I rather think that we do not force as much demands to video data as we do to sound. OK, I will not use “we” but I would say “I”. So, I am not so picky in video result as I am in audio results.

I run 120’ 1.4x screen from 14 feet using JVC DLA-RS1x projector that I was having on loan for long time and that I have bought last month. Even I am OK with the image but I need to admit that there is a LOT that I do not like with the image. However, do plan to do any actions to change anything? Not relay, nevertheless if I had the same deficiencies with sound then I would move my ass and change the things. I very much do not say that sound in my video room is perfect but it is sufficient not to be bothered, at least it does not bother me.

About the Oppo vs. another players for sound? I do not know. I had Oppo 93. It was not mine but a local friend of my let me use his for a while. His unit has modified analog converters by somebody very famous in this field and he told me that this is much better then stock Oppo. The owner of that Oppo invest a lot of efforts in the video world, so I very much presume that he knows what he say and does. So, that Oppo 93 was fine to play CDs in my Opera room but was not even competitor to CEC TL0 in my listening room.

I have 2-3 DVD players that I use before Oppo and when a friend of my gave to me that Oppo it was day and night difference in term of image quality. So they do something right in there. Soule with Oppo was also slightly better then my older consumer DVD player but it was not such great difference. But again: was it little difference in sound or I just do not acknowledge the difference in context of comparatively shitty sonic installation in Opera room and in context of regrettably bad film sound?

I do not have Oppo anymore, I went cheap and bought s consumer grade $250 Sony player that plays anything and that played over 30 different streaming services. Honestly I am happy like clam with that mass-market player and I do not feel that it worse than Oppo use to be. It might be worse but I do not feel it. There is something that this Sony player does beyond my imagination. For instance the crappy YouTube concerts video that sound and look horrible at our computers this little Sony player made to look surprisingly wonderful on the screen. I actually consider to buy one mode in bedroom...

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