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BDP 93 or BDP 95? More slam dunks from OPpo?


With the BDP 95s initial release date upcoming next month, I’ve a couple questions for anyone in the know as to the ’93 or ‘95s performance.

I own a BDP 83 and like the idea of the new BDP 93s networking of file playback, the allowance of NTFS formatted discs, ESATA, file formats like FLAC being accepted…. And reputedly a better video chip set, and a better audio DAC as in the 95.

Does the Oppo BDP 95 appear to be another winner from Oppo, or does it seem to be only a little bit more than a modest effort to engage the audio hobbyist into foregoing any thoughts of a dedicated audio disc player and sticking with a single universal player instead? A one size fits all worth buying solution?

I’m not familiar with the Ess audio DAC the 95 is going to use, nor am I familiar with how well the Rotel transformer will play into this topography. Nor am I really up on why the switch from the Anchor Bay video chipset to this new type?

Am I reading the specs right in that the 95 can also be used as an input to the ESS DAC from some other digital source?

Performance gains in the BDP 95 seems to hinge primarily on the new ESS audio DACs, and Rotel transformer, along with the balanced connections. Does all of this equate to a great player? A no brainer pick in this category of near $1K universal players?

Or from another angle…. Assuming both the 93 & 95 are superior to the 83, does the ’95 seem to support it’s added near $500 cost over that of the BDP 93?

BTW…. Playback of BR 3D video and/or watching streaming video from BB or Netflicks doesn’t appeal to me at all.

Consequently, I’m torn between selling my 83 and buying either the 93 or 95.

Any help setting me straight on these two players is immensely appreciated.
blindjim
blindjim OP
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yeah... that's waht I said, right? Well, more or less. Nothing on the drawing board, just filling a slot for the streams to rent joints.

Thanks, though.

Nothing to get excited about... yet.

We'll have to wait for Hollywood to figure out what our next redo of formats, or other security steps they wish to prevail upon us. HDMI 2.0 ?

Amazing.

Next up? Mini discs that look like marbles. Big fat jaw breaker like marbles. A little smaller than golf balls that contain enough space for a Terra BBit of info or more. Or memory sticks that have all the Blueray info on them. No discs at all!

I can't wait to rebuy my movies and music a fourth time.
unsound
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Blindjim, will the next format have glassless 3D on some kind of non mechanical memory drive?
blindjim OP
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Bubble memory. Black hole memory. Perhaps in time, they'll figure out how to clone flicks in the lab organically. Beat's me where they're headed but I'm sure they're headed somewhere so I'll have to be reinvesting in something, somewhere at some point..

Personally, I think the next big deal would be to have dedicated rooms or hollo suites. Wherein the whole room becomes the environment.... ala Next Generation Star Trek.

That will come out right about the time I'm getting my last rights. I'll stick around ONLY if they say it doesn't require new construction to impliment the technology. It's just a bolt on to any existing room!

...and of course the outlay of $1,630,000 for the hardware and installation. 'Course, movies then will cost a couple hundred bucks, and albums will run about the same... but the band shows up in hollographic person.
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