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4.0 stars
"Screw Movies---this is your new CD Player!!!"
Pros: Its the music, stupid!!! It will also play Standef DVDs
Cons: Horrid little drawer and the 'zapper' from Hell!!!
Summary: 1. Let me be clear that I HATE MOVIES!!! The only way you'll get me into a movie theatre is if people's is buying or my date guarentees I'll get laid afterwards. I don't like movies because I don't like the idea of having some lowlife Hollywood "whatzit" forcing me to sit passively for two hours while he/she spurts their 'arte' on me.
2. If I hate going to movies, imagine my joy of staying home for two hours to watch re-runs DVDs) I already know the plot to...
3. So if ol' CPTG hates movies, why did he buy hisself a DVD players? Multiplicity. I can have sex in the backseat of my car on the Sabbath while driving it to Church on the Sunduth. One vehicle; two incompatable activities. Same with the Oppo DV-980H...it plays videos but it also plays music.
4. Don't buy the Oppo DV-980H or DV-981 if you're planning to buy or own a HiDef TV Set. Any HD or Blu-Ray set will blow it away, running standef 480i thru HMDI while upscaling it---you'd be wasting your money.
5. Buy the OPPO if you have a old, killer NonHIDEF TV and you want to occasionally play a STANDDEF 480i DVD movie on it via Component or SuperS outputs. Its DVD video is decent but not something to write home about. Then wait out the HD-Blu Ray war!!!
6. What IS worthy of writing home about is the audio CD section. You're getting a $3-5,000 CD player (think Krell,etc.) for the price of an illegal U-Turn ticket. I wasn't just pleased playing my standard CDs on the OPPO---I was FLOORED. On my 17 Pygmies Captured in Ice CD, I heard stuff buried in the tracks (guitar thumps, squeels, etc.) I never heard before and this is a mid 80's college staple record.
6. Bottom Line: The OPPO DV-980H is a so-so StandDef 480i HDMI (overachiever) but a kickass CD player for the clams spent!!!Updated
Why buy the OPPO and not a full blown HD player:
1. The OPPO is cheaper than my IPOD
2. The audio is STUNNING!!! I'm retiring my $2,000.00 CD player and $1,000 outboard DAC for my cheap-ass OPPO player. Its THAT good!
3. A customer service dept to die for!!!
4. Many bells and whistles for $169.00 including a good HDMI cable and tote bag!!!
5. THE HD/Blu-Ray battle is over but the war is not. Now DTS and Dolby are battling it out in the blu ray market. Wait them out!
6. My parents gave me an old 53" wide screen TV that doesn't have an HDMI output. The best soluton for me is the OPPO 980H
7. Negatives that I can live with. The tray is not just cheap and flimsy---it's Chevy Blazer-ish cheap and flimsy!!! Also, the enclosed zapper is an ergonomic nightmere. I **** you not, there are 50 buttons on it yet you will only use 4-5 at best!!!Oppo ought to let Apple design their remote next time---they have only six buttons!!!
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Tanks I have a and old NAD cd player and now is not working,I will buy this Unit
