I bought an Oppo DV-983H DVD Player from ONLY BEST RATED before. The only issue was that I had pre-ordered it and it kept getting delayed and after 3 weeks they finally had some in stock. I picked it up from their warehouse locally and that was that. So I would recommend them.
Bill Hunt mentioned recently that Warner knows that people don't like lossy tracks on their BD releases and will be releasing lossless tracks more often with future releases.
When it comes to their receivers, I have to vouch for Yamaha. Fantastic products they are. I find the sound to have more ooph than other receivers. I even have Yamaha speakers which I find very exceptional.
No it doesn't. I use to think the PLUS meant something, but it clearly doesn't with T3. Had the BD version of T3 had a PCM or TrueHD track, I would have gladly double dipped on this movie.
WOW! Didn't see this coming at all. The format war is now prolonged. http://www.viacom.com/NEWS/NewsText.aspx?RID=1042073 That's the official press release.
It was available for over 12 hours, and then they pulled it. I have a feeling it was released prematurely (since they had previously announced that it would be available next week, not this week). EDIT: The 2.0 firmware is available for download again...
Installed v2.0, however I can't test the TrueHD capability yet because I don't have any TrueHD blu-ray titles yet. I will have Letters from Iwo Jima sometime late next week. I'll try it out then and report back.
Yes, with this update you will be able to listen to TrueHD through the analog outs and/or HDMI. The player will internally decode the TrueHD track and output it as PCM.
Sony has announced that they would be releasing a firmware upgrade next week for the BDP-S1 giving it Dolby Digital Plus and Dolby TrueHD support. Great news! http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=235
Paramount needs to cut the crap with the audio formats and just release lossless for both formats. TrueHD for HD-DVD and PCM for Blu-Ray. It should be the standard for both formats IMO.
LMAO! That was great! I can't stand going to the theatres anymore. Last time I went was summer 06. I can't recreate the "experience" at home that's for sure. Why? Cause I have something going better than the crappy theatre experience. And with hi-def, I have no need to see a movie in the over...
I hope this is a continuing trend. I have a Sony BDP-S1 that doesn't decode TrueHD (hopefully it will in the future with a firmware upgrade), so still having a PCM audio track is awesome!
I see a pro and con to this. Pro: makes hi-def adoption MUCH cheaper! Hence, fast adoption. Con: cheaper components used to build these cheaper players. Hence, much lower quality players (can give increased problems).
hi everyone, I order a lot of movies and TV boxsets (90% of the time from Amazon) and I can't get to them right away usually. I bought "Everybody Loves Raymond" Season 1 DVD set back in January and haven't been able to watch it until recently. While watching disc 1 the DVD began to skip and...
The hindi subtitles really help me as I've been trying to get my parents to watch more Hollywood movies. Problem is, is that English is not their first language so it's harder for them to pick up some of the dialogue. I hope this is the beginning of a trend to include hindi (or even Punjabi)...
Yup, same thing happened to me. Either there is goo left behind by the crappy security stickers or takes off lettering or a piece of cover art. Bravo to the packaging manufacturers who don't test their products before putting them out to market and let US get screwed over it with it *slow clap*