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Overview : The BDP-80 is a full-featured universal Blu-ray Disc player that supports BD Profile 2.0 (BD-Live and BonusView), DVD-Video, DVD-Audio, Super Audio CD (SACD), HDCD, CD and other popular media formats such as AVCHD, MKV video files, digital photos and music. Sharing the same decoder and similarly optimized firmware as OPPO’s award-winning BDP-83, the BDP-80 features fast disc load times, quick response to user operations, and robust audio and video controls. In contrast to the BDP-83, which utilizes an onboard VRS by Anchor Bay video processor, the BDP-80 design has been optimized for use as a digital audio/video transport, emphasizing the accuracy of its digital audio/video outputs. At the same time, the BDP-80 is versatile enough to be used as a stand-alone universal Blu-ray player, thanks to its full array of output connections and audio/video decoding capabilities. For video, the BDP-80 features an HDMI 1.3 port that supports 1080p Full HD, 1080p 24Hz, Deep Color and Source Direct modes. Component video, S-Video and Composite video connections are also available for legacy analog displays. In addition to its faithful reproduction of high-definition pictures on Blu-ray Discs, the player can up-convert DVD from standard definition up to 1080p to maximize DVD picture quality. Its "Source Direct" output mode makes the BDP-80 incredibly well suited as a digital transport to feed into an external video processor, a high-end A/V receiver or display device with built-in video processing. Unique features such as subtitle shift and vertical stretch zoom mode makes the player an ideal source component for home theaters with 2.35:1 CIH (Constant Image Height) displays. For audio, the BDP-80 supports internal decoding and bitstream output of the latest sound formats including Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Master audio. The BDP-80 also features a configurable 7.1-channel analog output that can be set as 7.1-channel, 5.1-channel, or stereo.
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 Universal Bargain |
| Review Date: February 3, 2010 |
| Reviewer: R. Clark, Ridley Park, PA United States |
You should look closely at this player if any of these descriptions fit you:
-You own SACDs or DVD-As and want to play them on the same player you use for Blu-ray and DVD;
-You want to upgrade to a universal player that can transmit all audio and video formats (including SACD and DVD-A) via HDMI;
-You own a high-end video processor (separately or built into your receiver or display) that you want to use instead of the one built into your player;
-You own a processor that does not accept HDMI but does have analog 7.1/5.1 inputs, and want to use them to hear lossless audio (TrueHD/DTS-MA) from Blu-ray Discs.
-You prefer to do business with a smaller company that has a reputation for responsive and effective customer support.
You are not the target market for this player if:
-You require that your streaming solution (for Netflix, Amazon, YouTube etc.) be part of your Blu-ray player -- this player does not stream;
-You own a very large display and need the very best available upconversion of standard DVDs (which would make you a candidate for Oppo's $499 BDP-83);
-You don't want to spend more than the minimum for standard Blu-ray audio and video performance, and you have HDMI-enabled equipment.
-You feel you can benefit from the audio performance of very high-end DACs for stereo or multichannel analog audio (which would recommend the BDP-83 or BDP-83SE).
While I've only had my BDP-80 for a few days, I've become very impressed with the thoroughness and elegance of its design. This is a very well thought-out player, aimed at users who have a reasonable grasp of the technology they're using.
I should note that I did not spend much time on the file-playback capabilities of this unit. I did play a couple of MPG files I had on a thumb drive (there's a port on the front of the player) and found a very nice menu and very straightforward operation. There is a long list of supported file formats.
Some of the things that jumped out at me:
-The very well-packed player arrives, inside the box, wrapped not in plastic, but in an Oppo tote bag made from recycled material.
-The manual is clear, well-written in English, and printed with premium materials. (Updated versions can be downloaded as well.)
-A 6' HDMI cable is included.
-The unit has a very solidly-built feel to it.
-It is silent in operation (no cooling fan) yet does not run hot.
-Tray operation feels and sounds solid, well-damped, and not a bit flimsy. There is no ambiguity about whether the disc is properly centered in the tray.
-Menus are attractive and unambiguous.
-The remote has a number of unusual but useful controls, but is still comfortable and intuitive for basic operations. (Note that it is not backlit; the backlit version costs more and is available direct from Oppo. This is moot if you plan to use a universal remote, as I do.)
-The player is very quick in all modes of operation. It powers up and boots very fast; the tray is ready to open in a few seconds. Blu-ray operations are on a par with the PS3; other types of discs load and play as fast as most regular players.
-In my installation, at least, I connected to my home network, the player immediately configured itself, contacted the mothership, found and downloaded the latest firmware, all in a couple of minutes.
Detailing every feature of the player and remote would basically be to reproduce the owner's manula which, since it's available as a pdf on Oppo's site, you can do for yourself. So I'll end by saying that the player appears to do everything that Oppo says it will do, and does it quickly and without fuss. The company includes a one-year parts-and-labor warranty, and has an excellent reputation for customer support.
You can pay a lot less for equivalent performance in Blu-ray playback via HDMI, even in players with support for streaming services. If that's all you need there may be no reason for you to pay more for a player like this. But particularly if you can use a universal player with Blu-ray, this is not just a great performer, but it's a stone bargain.
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Budget Audiophile's Best Universal Player
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| Review Date: March 3, 2010 |
| Reviewer: R. Fleischer, Skokie, IL USA |
Here was my problem. My old Sony Esprit series CD player was on its last legs. I had a lo-fi DVD / VCR. I own several dozen hybrid SACD's that I could only hear as CD's. I wanted, no, needed, a quality universal player.
The rest of my system has very nice equipment, the kind of equipment that fellow audiophiles on a tight budget appreciate. My home theater speakers are Magnepans, my multichannel receiver was a high quality Yamaha, and I used my old Carver M1.5t amplifiers to amplify the main MG12/QR's and a Dahlquist subwoofer.
I wanted something to play SACD's and CD's at a high quality, multichannel for the DSD streams and as a bitstream for traditional CD. I also wanted to up-convert DVD signal. Did I need Blu-ray? No, but when you can get it for free, why not?
The OPPO BDP-80 is the ONLY universal player in the world that includes Blu-Ray, and SACD on the same platform, and costs only $289.00! That is phenomenal.
After several weeks listening to the unit, hooked into my system via both HDMI and optical digital, I have these comments.
The CD bitstream, acquired via optical digital, is at least as good as my Sony was. The sound is clean, pure, and accurate. SACD, acquired as a discrete multichannel output, is excellent. I can finally hear the improvement that DSD provides; a more open high end, more "air" around string instruments in the orchestra, more ambiance in jazz recordings. I've been missing something, and this is the answer for serious home reproduction of fine music.
The pleasant surprise - MP3's via the USB port! I am shocked that better quality MP3 input (320 kbps) sound almost as good as CD's. And it is trivial to move files onto a thumb drive, and play them on the player. I am shocked at how often I use this little gem of a feature.
Video is vastly improved. All of the up-converted signals from traditional DVDs are sharp, far better than the lo-fi players I used to use. The ability to get clean Dolby Digital signal over HDMI is a huge improvement, as my receiver is not capable of decoding the new Blu-ray formats.
Here's my bottom line:
The only unit that can do all this, under a thousand dollars, is the larger OPPO! While I concede that the audio output of the larger OPPO is better than this unit,(heck, Lexicon takes the BDP-83, changes out a few capacitors, wraps a better box on it, and charges $3500!) this still delivers SACD, good CD, and MP3 in a single package, for less than $300.00.
And as someone who takes pride in getting a lot of audio bang for my buck... this unit delivers exactly what I want. I can put any media format in my house into one player, and get high quality audio and video, for a very nice price.
Bravo, OPPO! |
Great Build Quality
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| Review Date: February 19, 2010 |
| Reviewer: DC, |
The first thing you will notice when you take this player out of the well packaged box it is shipped in is that it has a very solid feel, it's also deeper then most of the stuff made today by sony and others I like the deeper machines they fit better with all my other gear. My Sony and most new Sony's feel like the constructed of tin so you have what looks a bit fancier in some of the Sony's but really they all seem to be built like junk in the Oppo 80s price class, while I would love if the draw assembly had the liquid smooth quiet damped draw like my Yamaha's I did not expect this on th 80 and it would probably increase the cost to build it in so its understandable in this range, I would think the Oppo 83 has that at $200 more.
The picture when using its own upscaler chip I'm a little torn on, I think its quite good overall but it also has source direct that sends the signal direct to your set allowing your TV or High End Reciever to do the upscaling, this feature is not found on lesser machines, this also allowed me to test the upscaling capability in the Oppo 80 with what I have, and here's what I noticed if I feed the source from a well recorded DVD direct to my TH46PZ85U it seems to do a very good job at up scaling SD but on-screen titles and text seem to be handled better in my Pany then the 80, text seems cleaner and whiter where is the Oppo seems a little softer and not as white im not sure why but it seems that the 80 is less sharp on something's, this has nothing to do with the sharpness control in the player as you can't make the Oppo show text as clearly defined no mater how you set it.
Im not sure how the 83 compares in this test as I do not own one but thats somthing I notice right away please don't let that stop you however as the picture, sound and build are all quite high, do not expect an over procesed image as may be seen with many machines, this machine produces a much more natural picture then most mass market machines and I expect that from a smaller high quality company like Oppo Digital.
With this aside I would say the machine does a great job, it even played discs my sony machine wouldn't even play. In my sony some discs would lock up but the same problem disc plays fine in the Oppo.
So if what you want is a fast well made machine that will play most of what you toss at it I think you cant go wrong with this machine.
this player does not have the case flex of many other machines that is I mean that cheep box construction seen on so many others built today you can flex the case on others ... but the 80 it really is solid I would say that the case that the 80 was built around is thicker steel then other players out there, I have not confirmed this, but sure they cut some corners in the 80 like the true puck style feet that are on most high end gear like my Yamaha's and the Oppo 83 but I feel that's ok as they didn't seem to skimp in over all build at all and that's welcome and important in my book I really don't like junk.
So if you just want a cheep player that has Netflix stuff and buy one of the others that are less then this or even close to this you will not get this build quality in the other machines in my opin.
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Full-featured bargain, audiophile review
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| Review Date: February 18, 2010 |
| Reviewer: A. Keller, Sacramento, CA |
I grew up in the household of a professional audiophile, became one myself, and I've seen them all. This player is a flat-out steal at this price. I replaced a Pioneer DV-610av-s with this unit, literally just swapped cables over, and used a USB drive to update the firmware. Amazing machine. I geeked out over it, big time.
Here's why you should pick this thing up:
- Every possible connector a low-budget audio/videophile wants: 7.1 analog outputs, digital coax, optical, HDMI, component, composite, S-Video, 2x USB, and ethernet
- Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio decoders on-board, for hi def audio on the analog (7.1) outputs (for those of us still attached to our older Pioneer Elite receivers ^_^)
- Excellent DVD up-conversion...I've seen better, but we're talking wayyyyy beyond this price point
- Cheapest blu-ray you can buy with DVD-A and SACD AND analog audio outputs...I bought this player for this reason alone
- 96 and 192 khz audio options for compatible receivers
- Simple setup...intuitive menu, GORGEOUS manual (the thing was professionally printed IN ENGLISH), and HDMI cable included
- On-unit display screen has indicators for everything
- Quick eject/load time
- Great remote
- Beautiful packaging = enjoyable unboxing experience
Here's what irks me so far:
- No ability to have surround speakers set at different distances in the menu--you change the distance on one, the other changes too (although any decent receiver gives you this option, so not a big deal...)
- Short power cord (again, not a big deal)
- No backlighting on the remote (big deal = no)
Oh, and shipping with UPS is garbage...I signed up for 2-day delivery, UPS showed up after my apartment's front office was closed and couldn't get in, so I called to have it ready for pickup that night, drove out there only to find they never pulled it off the truck, and had to call back to make sure they delivered it during business hours. And when I called to have the operator send the driver the code to our gate, the operator said "our drivers don't have cell phones". WTF? What is this, 1982?
Buy this thing already. Just don't ship with UPS. |
Outstanding value for excellent all-around Blu-ray Player
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| Review Date: March 10, 2010 |
| Reviewer: Nathan Price, San Antonio |
I currently own an OPPO DV-980H up-converting DVD player that I've had for a few years now. I loved it when I got it and still do, but this new player far exceeds that one all the way around. This player is super quiet, unlike the DV-980H which is quite noisy at times. It does a better job up-converting DVDs and has a source video mode where it will leave the output as is so you can allow your receiver or TV to do the up-converting instead. The overall look and feel of the physical unit is great, it's almost as thin as any good DVD player plus it has a USB port on the front for loading up movies or music that way. It supports just about every audio and video format out there, however I have noticed some strange artifacts/pixelation that occurs on a couple videos I encoded using the newest H.264 encoding standards. I'm sure this will be addressed in future firmware updates, OPPO is always good about keeping their firmware up-to-date and it's super easy to upgrade. It supports all the latest and greatest Dolby audio formats along with many others and can output the sound to your receiver as is (bitstream) or convert it to LPCM first for better compatibility if your receiver can't decode it. The menus and navigation are much improved over older models and the manual is very well written and explains everything well.
If you are interested in playing many different formats of audio and video, this is definitely for you. If you don't need the higher-end video processing for DVD up-conversion that the BDP-83 provides for a premium, get this one instead. You just can't beat what you get for the price. I have a Netflix Blu-ray subscription and ever disc I've watched so far has worked flawlessly. There will always be more potential problems with ripped and burned audio and video because of the multitude of encoding formats and methods used. |
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