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OPPO BDP-80 Blu-ray Disc Player with SACD and DVD-Audio (Black) | 
| Brand: OPPO
Category: CE
Buy New: $289.99
as of 3/12/2010 02:03 CST details
Seller: Amazon.com
Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 752
Color: Black
Media: Electronics
Batteries Included: Yes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 7.7
Dimensions (in): 16.9 x 11 x 2.1
MPN: BDP-80
Model: BDP-80
UPC: 898072002035
EAN: 0898072002035
ASIN: B00365ECEQ
Shipping: Eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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| Features:
| • | Excellent stand-alone universal Blu-ray player and digital transport for Blu-ray, DVD, SACD, DVD-Audio, HDCD, CD, Kodak Picture CD, AVCHD, MKV, etc | | • | Full HD video featuring up to 1080p output resolution, DVD up-conversion, 1080p 24Hz mode for Blu-ray, and ¿Source Direct¿ mode to support external video processor | | • | High fidelity audio with Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio onboard decoding and bitstream output, supporting up to 192kHz 24-bit 5.1ch and 96kHz 24-bit 7.1ch audio tracks | | • | Versatile audio connectivity including HDMI, 7.1ch analog, coaxial and optical digital outputs. Supports native DSD over HDMI for SACD playback | | • | Ultimate convenience including PAL/NTSC conversion, dual USB ports, fast disc load times, responsive remote control, and built-in 1GB storage for BonusView and BD-Live |
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Product Description
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 9
 Sony is Baloney but Oppo is an Oppo-r-tunity March 12, 2010
The Real Deal (USA)
Yes, it sells for a little more than most of those that have saturated the market. Sony, Toshiba, Sharp, Vizio, Panasonic, LG and a plethora of others, offering all the new features, including USB ports for live online access etc...My setup included, two Sony 400 capacity DVD players, which housed the 800 plus DVD's I have amassed over a three year period. However, not unlike other Sony Laser guided audio and video machines, their shelf life, so to speak, is designed to last from perhaps, one and a half to three years, at which time their lasers stop working, causing the freezing of any particular DVD or CD, being the case, in their 5 disc carousel, I have quite literally gone through, eight Sony machines, be they CD or DVD, in the past four to six years. None of the eight were lower entry level machines, rather, several from the Sony ES Series. Therefore, when my two Sony, Disc Explorer 400 Machines went down within three days of each other, I knew it was time to move on and scratch that name from my list of Audio/Video components. While cruising Amazon.com, I came across the name Oppo. This company does not have aspirations of owning a large percentage of the market share.The Oppo "Mission Statement" is one that developed a mentality of producing several great machines for both audio and video, grasping a very small portion of the marketplace and to produce the absolute best machines in the field. I purchased the lowest/least expensive of their DVD players, the Oppo BDP-80 Blue-ray Disc Player with SACD and DVD Audio in Black. I received it in less than two full days, as I am a Prime member with Amazon, (well worth the fee) and had it wired and fired within 5-10 minutes. It is so quiet, I did not believe the motor was running. In addition, from the moment I shut the door, the CD was ready to play in several seconds. This boggled my mind since both Sony's would take a significantly extensive and prolonged period of time just to get to the point where one could read the disclaimers on Intellectual Property Rights. The playback resolution is absolutely brilliant as are the crisp highs, clean mid-range and solid bottom lows out of the SubWoofer. This was a win-win situation. I am definitely sold on Oppo and am planning several more purchases in the next several months. I would not hasten to recommend any of the Oppo products as being great investments, a sound (pardon the pun) investment in developing a home theater or simply for the occasional viewer of DVDs. I know it will last and will be backed-up by the Oppo Tech Department, in the event it requires this type of work. I am extremely pleased with it's performance, quiet operation and magnificent reproduction of the best video offered in the world of digital entertainment.
Outstanding value for excellent all-around Blu-ray Player March 10, 2010
Nathan Price (San Antonio)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
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.
Budget Audiophile's Best Universal Player March 3, 2010
R. Fleischer (Skokie, IL USA)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
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 February 19, 2010
DC
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
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.
Full-featured bargain, audiophile review February 18, 2010
A. Keller (Sacramento, CA)
9 out of 12 found this review helpful
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.
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