Blu-Ray what are you running

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I am interested in hearing what Blu-Ray decks you are running. Let's hear about them.

Jim
 
Sony...BDP-S350...after they won the hi-def wars (bought the win) this was the player that was considered the one to have, and kind of in the sweet spot in terms of price. I bought mine used several years ago, and have not been disappointed..
 
i went with the Oppo BDP-83 because its a universal player and is PAL format compatible. plays everything i've ever thrown at it.
 
Scott, any idea on the onboard DAC or does it have one, that's how ignorant of digital I am.
 
internal dac on the Oppo is very good, Cirrus CS4398 for stereo and Cirrus CS4382A for multi-channel. its much better than whats in my receiver, so i use the 5.1 analog outputs of the Oppo rather than let the receiver process the signal.
 
Now do you guys see why I need switching and not a Bryston amp?

I love my Pioneer PD-F907 100+1 file changer, it's nearly full, just added a copy of the 2-CD set I made my oldest niece for a graduation present With a Zenith 7030 receiver and RS Nova-8 (and a neat candy/etc ceramic dish with a handle :)

First one out! Litchfield HS 2012, FF. All but one track is from Web's present on this thing.

Still, I need audio switching and up the wazoo.

And somebody to at least convert one CED player to stereo as well.

Barry Manilow wants out of the sleeve
 
speakerman1 said:
this one.

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larry
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What am I supposed to do with an HDMI cable?

I am exclusively running NTSC CRT color TVs and projectors. My sets date back to 1963. I use a Yamaha Prologic processor and two converters in the house.

My 1963 RCA Victor New Vista 6L6 19" portable is one of the few truly good thing I got out of AK (including the friendship of Dr. Audio and Dr. Strangelove...BeatleFred as well).
 
orange said:
speakerman1 said:
this one.

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larry
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What am I supposed to do with an HDMI cable?

I am exclusively running NTSC CRT color TVs and projectors. My sets date back to 1963. I use a Yamaha Prologic processor and two converters in the house.

My 1963 RCA Victor New Vista 6L6 19" portable is one of the few truly good thing I got out of AK (including the friendship of Dr. Audio and Dr. Strangelove...BeatleFred as well).
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Would kinda be I don't know. You fill in the blank for you to even worry about a blue ray.

Larry
 
PS3.

Had it for years and I have yet to buy one BlueRay disc for it. Otherwise it is a real work horse. It's on day after day. My sons gaming looks spectacular. The rest of us use it for Netflix (wifi), streaming movies, full seasons of TV shows and documentaries. The quality is excellent. If I really want to see some more recently released movie, I just download it to my phone in HD quality and dock it.

If it broke tomorrow I'd gladly buy another.
 
dingus said:
internal dac on the Oppo is very good, Cirrus CS4398 for stereo and Cirrus CS4382A for multi-channel. its much better than whats in my receiver, so i use the 5.1 analog outputs of the Oppo rather than let the receiver process the signal.
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Agree with Scott, the Oppo is the machine to have. I run 7.1 direct and bypass any processing in the pre-processor, the Oppo is that good.
 
Oppo 93.

Handles everything nicely and is zippy loading up..
 
I am running a pair of Panasonic DMP-BD87units. They are wireless but connections with my computers is kinda sketchy and when they do connect they don't read much variety of files. I pretty much have a 64 gb thumb drive and a 1tb usb drive for both of them and the read mkv and mp4 files just fine of the externals drives.

I can't say how fast or slow they are in loading blue ray movies as I don't have anything to compare to and I usually put all the movies on the external drives.
 
Fairchild said:
I am interested in hearing what Blu-Ray decks you are running. Let's hear about them.
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None. I'm still happy with my old DVD player.

Optical media is pretty much dead in the water. I did consider picking up a Blu-ray machine a couple of years back but decided against it.

Streaming stuff online has come a long way in recent years and I'll go down that route when my player dies.
 
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I have had a Sony PlayStation 3 for a few years. I have the one which was the last model year before the change-up to the slim-line model, and I bought the package for a great close-out price with games and controllers. I also have a Sony BDP S480. I have seen the Oppo BDP-103 in action at my best friend's place and in comparison to the Sony PS3 (same model as mine) it outperforms it substantially.

Nando.
 
I am still upgrading or repairing my RCA Selctavision CED players from the 80s. When I got a used DVD player once there was a blue movie already in it.
 
I've got a Sansui something-or-other. The model number is only on the back and the unit is in the stack, so I can't tell you all the model #. It was given to me about a week ago, and I'm still waiting on the remote, so also still waiting to see a Blu-Ray movie. It's nice for CD playback - "nice"? no, it's spectacular!
 
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