OPPO OPDV971H Digital HD-Ready Up-Converting DVD Player
from: OPPO Digital
Product Description:
OPPO Digital is a leading maker of next-generation digital electronics, dedicated to enriching people's digital lifestyles with technology and innovation.The OPDV971H DVD Player features DVI (Digital Video Interface) output to eliminate flickers and to produce more clear pictures.
Amazon.com Product Description:
Improve the picture quality of DVD movies shown on your high-definition television with the versatile OPPO Digital OPDV971H DVD player, which provides 480p/540p/576p/720p/1080i resolutions and can upconvert 480i video from DVDs to the high definition 720p/1080i formats. Featuring a slim and elegant design, it featurs a sleek, silver design that will fit in nicely the rest of your home theater's components. In addition to standard DVD move and CD audio discs, it's also compatible with DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW, (S)VCD, HDCD, and CD-R/RW discs as well as WMA and JPEG digital content. It also plays DivX 5, DivX 4, DivX 3, and DivX VOD video content (in compliance with DivX Certified technical requirements).
The OPDV971H features Faroudja's Emmy award-winning DCDi deinterlacing and scaling technology to up-convert standard video in DVDs to HD resolutions. DCDi (Directional Correlational Deinterlacing) technology eliminates the jagginess that conventional upconverters introduced to diagonal edges in video. FaroudjaÕs unique DCDi algorithm identifies all the moving edges in a scene and adjusts the angle of interpolation at each pixel so that the interpolation always follows the edge instead of crossing it, eliminating staircasing or jagged edge artifacts.
Other features include a 108MHz/12bit video D/A converter, super error correction with twin laser and intelligent laser wavelength control, NTSC/PAL output (from both NTSC and PAL formatted discs), multi-angled view capability, virtual surround sound, and built-in Dolby Digital and DTS decoders. Future upgrades to the firmware can be updated to the player via a CD-ROM disc. It offers the following connection options:
Tech Talk
DivX is a video codec (a piece of software encoding and decoding video) based on the MPEG-4 compression format, that blends good quality video with a low bitrate. This translates to a smaller file size (around 15 percent of a standard DVD's video file), making it easier to transfer to portable devices as well as quicker to create (encode).
HDCD (High Definition Compatible Digital) is a disc encoding format for audio CDs and DVDs. It can encode 20 bits of audio information into a conventional CD 16-bit channel, yielding a greater dynamic range and a more true-to-life sound when decoded. HDCD-equipped players will improve audio quality for even traditionally recorded CDs and DVDs. Conversely, because of the recording process, HDCD-encoded media will also sound better than traditionally CDs and DVDs on players that don't have the HDCD chip.
DVI (Digital Video Interface) provides an uncompressed transfer of high definition video from a digital video source to a digital display device. HDCP (High Bandwidth Digital Content Protection) ensures copy protection of the content. The DVI output is also essential if you want to watch copyrighted DVDÕs at a higher, upconverted resolution (other video connections do not provide upconversion).
What's in the Box
DVD player, remote control (with batteries), video cable, RCA L/R audio cable, printed operating instructions
OPPO Digital is a leading maker of next-generation digital electronics, dedicated to enriching people's digital lifestyles with technology and innovation.The OPDV971H DVD Player features DVI (Digital Video Interface) output to eliminate flickers and to produce more clear pictures.
Amazon.com Product Description:
Improve the picture quality of DVD movies shown on your high-definition television with the versatile OPPO Digital OPDV971H DVD player, which provides 480p/540p/576p/720p/1080i resolutions and can upconvert 480i video from DVDs to the high definition 720p/1080i formats. Featuring a slim and elegant design, it featurs a sleek, silver design that will fit in nicely the rest of your home theater's components. In addition to standard DVD move and CD audio discs, it's also compatible with DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW, (S)VCD, HDCD, and CD-R/RW discs as well as WMA and JPEG digital content. It also plays DivX 5, DivX 4, DivX 3, and DivX VOD video content (in compliance with DivX Certified technical requirements).
The OPDV971H features Faroudja's Emmy award-winning DCDi deinterlacing and scaling technology to up-convert standard video in DVDs to HD resolutions. DCDi (Directional Correlational Deinterlacing) technology eliminates the jagginess that conventional upconverters introduced to diagonal edges in video. FaroudjaÕs unique DCDi algorithm identifies all the moving edges in a scene and adjusts the angle of interpolation at each pixel so that the interpolation always follows the edge instead of crossing it, eliminating staircasing or jagged edge artifacts.
Other features include a 108MHz/12bit video D/A converter, super error correction with twin laser and intelligent laser wavelength control, NTSC/PAL output (from both NTSC and PAL formatted discs), multi-angled view capability, virtual surround sound, and built-in Dolby Digital and DTS decoders. Future upgrades to the firmware can be updated to the player via a CD-ROM disc. It offers the following connection options:
- DVI Out: 1 (480p, 576p, 540p, 720p, 1080i resolutions)
- S-Video Out: 1
- Composite AV Out: 1
- Component Out
- Subwoofer Out: 1
- Optical digital audio Out: 1
- Coaxial digital audio Out: 1
Tech Talk
DivX is a video codec (a piece of software encoding and decoding video) based on the MPEG-4 compression format, that blends good quality video with a low bitrate. This translates to a smaller file size (around 15 percent of a standard DVD's video file), making it easier to transfer to portable devices as well as quicker to create (encode).
HDCD (High Definition Compatible Digital) is a disc encoding format for audio CDs and DVDs. It can encode 20 bits of audio information into a conventional CD 16-bit channel, yielding a greater dynamic range and a more true-to-life sound when decoded. HDCD-equipped players will improve audio quality for even traditionally recorded CDs and DVDs. Conversely, because of the recording process, HDCD-encoded media will also sound better than traditionally CDs and DVDs on players that don't have the HDCD chip.
DVI (Digital Video Interface) provides an uncompressed transfer of high definition video from a digital video source to a digital display device. HDCP (High Bandwidth Digital Content Protection) ensures copy protection of the content. The DVI output is also essential if you want to watch copyrighted DVDÕs at a higher, upconverted resolution (other video connections do not provide upconversion).
What's in the Box
DVD player, remote control (with batteries), video cable, RCA L/R audio cable, printed operating instructions
Features:
- Highest-rated DVD player in 2005 Benchmark Review by "Secrets of Home Theater and High Fidelity"
- Up-converting DVD player scalable to 576P (PAL)/720p/1080i for LCD/plasma/DLP displays for better picture
- Faroudja DCDi technology produces superior, crisper, clearer images on DTVs
- Plays DVD, DVD+/-RW, MPEG4/DivX/XviD, VCD, SVCD, CD+R/-RW, HDCD, MP3, WMA, JPEG, CD
- Dolby Digital and DTS surround sound, free 5-foot DVI cable, PAL/NTSC compatible
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Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: 
- After owning it for 4years, I recently dumped it for a Denon.
I owned this Player for 4years and all along misled into thinking I had something better than sliced bread. Was I wrong!
First, the Macro blocking issue, the display displays blacks horrendously. All other colors are good, but the blacks and the smudging is way too irritating. All along I thought it was my plasma TV that was the problem. Now, ater switching to a Denon 1940CI which by the way also uses the same Faroudja processing.. I dont see the Macro blocking issue anymore and the audio is ... Read More
Rating: 
- OPPO RULES
This was my first OPPO product and it's great.I purchased the 1080p version after much sucess with this one. I also purchased the HDMI switch.
As stated OPPO RULES.
Rating: 
- Great!
I bought an OPDV 971 H, because I wanted to watch DVD from Region one casting Jeremy Brett (The BBC's Sherlock Holmes, 1933-1995). I could not find the convenient apparatus in french stores. I'm very satisfied with Oppo DVD player; it reads any DVD without tuning. You put the DVD in the disk-tray, press "play", and that's all: it works!
Rating: 
- Good while it lasted.
It appeared to be a good player however it started malfunctioning after 1 year and by the end of the second year no longer worked.
Rating: 
- Wish it would perform HDTV upconversion on Component Output
I love it's performance EXCEPT that it doesn't output HDTV resolutions through the component video interface.My TV only has component inputs so this is a big problem for me.Beware, though this may have to do with copy protection compliance or something.Other manufacturers may have the same problem...We're kind of in the dark ages in video world where copy protection trumps functionality every time.
- After owning it for 4years, I recently dumped it for a Denon. I owned this Player for 4years and all along misled into thinking I had something better than sliced bread. Was I wrong!
First, the Macro blocking issue, the display displays blacks horrendously. All other colors are good, but the blacks and the smudging is way too irritating. All along I thought it was my plasma TV that was the problem. Now, ater switching to a Denon 1940CI which by the way also uses the same Faroudja processing.. I dont see the Macro blocking issue anymore and the audio is ... Read More
- OPPO RULESThis was my first OPPO product and it's great.I purchased the 1080p version after much sucess with this one. I also purchased the HDMI switch.
As stated OPPO RULES.
- Great!I bought an OPDV 971 H, because I wanted to watch DVD from Region one casting Jeremy Brett (The BBC's Sherlock Holmes, 1933-1995). I could not find the convenient apparatus in french stores. I'm very satisfied with Oppo DVD player; it reads any DVD without tuning. You put the DVD in the disk-tray, press "play", and that's all: it works!
- Good while it lasted.It appeared to be a good player however it started malfunctioning after 1 year and by the end of the second year no longer worked.
- Wish it would perform HDTV upconversion on Component OutputI love it's performance EXCEPT that it doesn't output HDTV resolutions through the component video interface.My TV only has component inputs so this is a big problem for me.Beware, though this may have to do with copy protection compliance or something.Other manufacturers may have the same problem...We're kind of in the dark ages in video world where copy protection trumps functionality every time.
