Oppo Digital DV-981HD

Pros: Well thought out bells and whistles and all around well built electronics .

Cons: Remote sucks and DVD tray looks flimsy. MUST HAVE DVI OR HDMI HDTV!

The Bottom Line: The Bottom Line is called Oppo by his friends.

Review: Ah Epinions, out to make me nuts again with your incredibly useless search engine and product descriptions I see. Well too late fools! That happened years ago around the time I started reading McTurbot reviews and wearing ...

Pros: Price and convenience with HDMI hookups can't be beat!

Cons: Build quality could be better, no component video outputs.

The Bottom Line: A picture that compares with DVD players costing thousands and incredible setup ease when using an HDMI connection makes this the new yardstick by which other players should be judged.

Review: OPPO is a relatively new company in the US as far as their DVD units are concerned. In actuality they make almost as many DVD players as Sony and Panasonic do, but have only recently marketed them in the US. I recently purchased the OPPO DV-981HD on ...

Pros: 1080p, HDMI, BEST PICTURE ON MARKET.

Cons: None! But would be nice to have a GAMMA adjustment.

The Bottom Line: This is the present King of the Hill of 1080p DVD UPconverting players. There is just nothing close at the moment, and I've done some serious head on comparisons.

Review: Oppo Digital's DV-971HD has been ranked as the number one player available, by professional reviewers, and magazines, upon buying one, I must agree, it no doubt is the best overall. BUT it had a serious handicap it was a 1080i player in a 1080p world and ...

Pros: Faroudja chip for best possible picture, 1080p, wide variety of supported formats

Cons: No component Video output, Surround Sound not quite as good as the previous model (971HD).

The Bottom Line: A great way to make use of your HDTV while waiting for the HD Fomats to develop and allow you to get the most out of your existing DVD Collection.

Review: Only discovered Oppo Digital a few weeks back. For years I have had a Panasonic S-35 which has been great for my standard 27" Zenith; however I recently upgraded to a 37" Westinghouse 37W3 LCD TV with True 1080p HD-Ready display. Needless to say the S-35 ...

Pros: AMAZING picture quality, Budget player with high-end design!

Cons: The remote, the little first-year kinks still being worked out.

The Bottom Line: Bottom line: This DVD player blows Sony and Panasonic out of the water! The company may be new, but their product is SOLID!

Review: I've owned this player for about 6 months and have enjoyed it ever since! This DVD player is being called the BEST Budget DVD Player on the market in 2005! And boy, they weren't kidding. This Oppo Digital DVD Player has been compared with other DVD ...

Pros: PRICE!  Features, upconverting DVD, quality craftsmanship,

Cons: None I've found yet. 

The Bottom Line: Really high quality for low cost.  Will buy you time until they figure out what to replace Blu Ray with.....

Review: Our ancient DVD player was in need of replacement, so after doing much research, I discovered an obscure company with the unlikely name of Oppo.  It turns out that Oppo had been provided the guts to other high-end companies but finally put out their ...

Pros: Great picture and film soundtrack decoding.

Cons: The damn blue light!!!!! Good at music CDs but not audiophile quality.

Review: The Oppo line has been receiving quite a bit of good reviews since they started selling their DVD players a couple of years back. Deservedly so. The main purpose of this machine is to play DVDs, and that it does in excellent form. Truly, the best ...

Pros: Does audio/video very well, sweet looking and well designed.

Cons: Virtually no front panel controls. Remote MUST be used. No big deal.

The Bottom Line: A great addition to your blu-ray/HD-DVD system and a good starter player for audiophiles.

Review: Sure, I have Blu-ray and HD-DVD and I have a hi def projector with a 120 inch screen in a dedicated home theater/Audio room...BUT, MOST of the DVDs around are still in 480P standard Def format and that's a fact of life. What is it? The Oppo is a VERY ...

Pros: Digital interface, firmware updates, nice picture

Cons: occasional lip sync problem, remote is poor, no sacd playback

The Bottom Line: This is the best player of this quality at this price.

Review: The Oppo DVD player has performed very well for me. I like several features about it: 1. The DVI interface. I have an HD Television and it has 2 HDMI ports. The player connects through DVI, but it came with a cable that converts DVI to HDMI ports, ...

Pros: Digital video out. Perfect PAL/NTSC conversion.

Cons: Slowest DVD player I have ever experienced.

The Bottom Line: Too slow. Too many flaws.

Review: In a world where you can buy a DVD player in the convenience-store checkout line, why would you spent $200 on a premium player? Digital video is the answer. This player's nameplate feature (and in fact, as far as I can tell, it's only notable ...