Strange problems with OPPO 971H
 

I sent this off to Oppo support, but wondered if anyone else might have some
insight before they return to work on Monday:

I just bought model OPDV971H through Amazon.com and I have two problems.
First, when any scene fades to black, there is a faint but distracting
ghostly and pixilated image of the last frame of the scene so the screen
never fades completely to black. I never realized how often scenes in movies
fade to black until I got this DVD player, so at least I learned something.
However, it's pretty annoying. I have had the TV, a Sony KDF-E55A20, for
over a year, and know it isn't something that the TV does. Is something set
wrong? The TV has an HDMI input and is connected to the DVD player with the
DVI to HDMI cable that came with the player.

The second problem I have is that I can't change the resolution from 480p,
but the TV is capable of 480i, 720p and 1080i. The picture doesn't come
close to filling the screen, it's only about 2/3 the size of the TV screen,
and it's squeezed horizontally.. I went into the menu and tried all four TV
display settings: Wide, Wide/SQZ, Normal/LB and Normal/PS. Wide showed the
2/3 picture, the other three settings simply reduced the height of the
picture even more. I also tried pressing the DVI button, but the only one I
didn't get the circle-with-a-slash-through-it was 480p. I have used this TV
with 720p and 1080i signals through an HDMI cable on many occasions. What's
really strange is the title screen of the DVD is the full height of the TV
screen, but no wider than the movie itself.

I powered down the unit, connected it to the TV through component cables,
and turned it on again, with the exact same result.

Also, I noticed that even when the Oppo is set to "Wide" screen, the Oppo
DVD player's screensaver is in 4:3 format, leaving wide gaps on either side
of the screen... I plugged my HD-DVR onto the same HDMI port on the TV and
it displays fine, full screen, so it can't be the TV?



Any ideas?

Strange problems with OPPO 971H
 

On 2007-04-01, That Guy wrote:

I just bought model OPDV971H through Amazon.com and I have two problems.
First, when any scene fades to black, there is a faint but distracting
ghostly and pixilated image of the last frame of the scene so the screen
never fades completely to black.

I may have seen this now and again. It hasn't been a big problem for me.

The second problem I have is that I can't change the resolution from 480p,
but the TV is capable of 480i, 720p and 1080i.

Playback must be stopped before you can change resolutions.

Also: the aspect controls only work for the upscaled resolutions: 720p and
1080i, not 480p. At 480p the display must handle the aspect control, which on
my display is never quite right. You want Wide/Sqz on the Oppo, 720p or 1080i.

There is an active 971 forum he

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=491306

Read the first posting; many useful tips.

A hint on saving your eyes when reading AVSForum: go to the bottom of the page
and select "AVS White" for the style.

-Bill
--
Sattre Press History of Astronomy
http://sattre-press.com/ During the 19th Century
by Agnes M. Clerke
http://sattre-press.com/han.html

Strange problems with OPPO 971H
 

"Bill McClain" wrote in message
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On 2007-04-01, That Guy wrote:

I just bought model OPDV971H through Amazon.com and I have two problems.
First, when any scene fades to black, there is a faint but distracting
ghostly and pixilated image of the last frame of the scene so the screen
never fades completely to black.

I may have seen this now and again. It hasn't been a big problem for me.

The second problem I have is that I can't change the resolution from
480p,
but the TV is capable of 480i, 720p and 1080i.

Playback must be stopped before you can change resolutions.

Also: the aspect controls only work for the upscaled resolutions: 720p and
1080i, not 480p. At 480p the display must handle the aspect control, which
on
my display is never quite right. You want Wide/Sqz on the Oppo, 720p or
1080i.

There is an active 971 forum he

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=491306

Read the first posting; many useful tips.

A hint on saving your eyes when reading AVSForum: go to the bottom of the
page
and select "AVS White" for the style.

-Bill


Thanks gigs! Once I was able to set it to 720p, I put it on Wide/Sqz and
the ghost images disappeared, and of course now the picture is full-screen
and looks WAY better. The most useful thing was the post you gave, from
which I found a link to Oppo's site, and finally found the FAQ I had
searched for and somehow missed before. It answered all my questions. I
only wish this DVD drive was region-free, but I can always strip out the
region coding on my PC and burn them to a new DVD.

Strange problems with OPPO 971H
 

On 2007-04-01, Adam Corolla wrote:

I
only wish this DVD drive was region-free, but I can always strip out the
region coding on my PC and burn them to a new DVD.

All the Oppos can be made region-free by entering a code with the remote:

setup
9210
0
setup

You'll have to repeat this if you ever update the firmware (something I always
forget). All the settings are wiped by new firmware.

They also play PAL discs and do PAL-NTSC conversion.

-Bill
--
Sattre Press History of Astronomy
http://sattre-press.com/ During the 19th Century
by Agnes M. Clerke
http://sattre-press.com/han.html

Strange problems with OPPO 971H
 

"Bill McClain" wrote in message
...
On 2007-04-01, Adam Corolla wrote:

I
only wish this DVD drive was region-free, but I can always strip out the
region coding on my PC and burn them to a new DVD.

All the Oppos can be made region-free by entering a code with the remote:

setup
9210
0
setup

You'll have to repeat this if you ever update the firmware (something I
always
forget). All the settings are wiped by new firmware.

They also play PAL discs and do PAL-NTSC conversion.

-Bill
--


I'm afraid I don't follow you.

I press Setup and it takes me to the general setup page. I type in 92100
and press setup again but nothing seems to happen. Should I see the numbers
being entered on the screen? Since you put the second 0 on its own line, I
thought maybe I was supposed to press return after 9210 before entering the
second 0, but nothing happens with that either... I put in a foreign DVD
and got the message "Wrong region"...

Strange problems with OPPO 971H
 

"Adam Corolla" wrote in message
...

"Bill McClain" wrote in message
...
On 2007-04-01, Adam Corolla wrote:

I
only wish this DVD drive was region-free, but I can always strip out the
region coding on my PC and burn them to a new DVD.

All the Oppos can be made region-free by entering a code with the remote:

setup
9210
0
setup

You'll have to repeat this if you ever update the firmware (something I
always
forget). All the settings are wiped by new firmware.

They also play PAL discs and do PAL-NTSC conversion.

-Bill
--


I'm afraid I don't follow you.

I press Setup and it takes me to the general setup page. I type in 92100
and press setup again but nothing seems to happen. Should I see the
numbers being entered on the screen? Since you put the second 0 on its
own line, I thought maybe I was supposed to press return after 9210 before
entering the second 0, but nothing happens with that either... I put in a
foreign DVD and got the message "Wrong region"...


Never mind. For some reason, the first five times I pressed setup then
9210, nothing happened. Then I found out from
http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/print...0726&p=9044576 that a
secret menu is supposed to pop up after I presses 9210. I tried once more
and this time, the menu came up. Apparently I typed the number wrong the
first five times. But it's just as you said:

MAKE REGION FREE:
The latest shipment of units are not region free. To change to region free
mode do this:
1.. Press Setup on remote control to access the setup page
2.. Enter 9210 on the remote
3.. A secret menu will pop up
4.. Select 0 to 6 in region code (0 is region free)
5.. Press Setup on remote again to exit
Sweet, I love this unit!

Strange problems with OPPO 971H
 

"Bill McClain" wrote in message
...
On 2007-04-01, That Guy wrote:

I just bought model OPDV971H through Amazon.com and I have two problems.
First, when any scene fades to black, there is a faint but distracting
ghostly and pixilated image of the last frame of the scene so the screen
never fades completely to black.

I may have seen this now and again. It hasn't been a big problem for me.


I found out it happens when you have the noise reduction level set to high.
Even the Oppo screen saver leaves ghost images on the screen when you have
that setting on. I was watching a DVD that appears to have been made with
an 8-mm video camera from the 1960s and there was so much snow at times I
thought it was a documentary about the Arctic. The high noise reduction
setting cleared it up a lot, probably eliminated 90% of the snow.

Strange problems with OPPO 971H
 

"Peter H. Coffin" wrote in message
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On Mon, 2 Apr 2007 13:12:28 -0500, Adam Corolla wrote:
I found out it happens when you have the noise reduction level set to
high.
Even the Oppo screen saver leaves ghost images on the screen when you
have
that setting on. I was watching a DVD that appears to have been made
with
an 8-mm video camera from the 1960s and there was so much snow at times I
thought it was a documentary about the Arctic. The high noise reduction
setting cleared it up a lot, probably eliminated 90% of the snow.

Snow on an Arctic documentary? Who'da thunk it?

Yeah, um, it wasn't actually a documentary about the Arctic. It was a film
about a musician. It's just that the film was of such god-awful quality, it
was full of snow--so much that it seemed like some other movie that one
would expect to have a lot of real snow in it, like say for example an
Arctic documentary.