Upconverting Faroudja DVD players - any differences?

But I don't think it has the Faroudja chip
www.oppodigital.com

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Rob wrote:
wrote on Tue, 05 Sep 2006 17:09:44 GMT:

hello,

ive read all about the Faroudja chipset and why its cool. Oppo seems to
be the enthusiasts choice. is there any difference between the Oppo and
say Samsung, or others which use the same chipset?

one advantage i can think of is universal remote-control settings.


Don't forget about the new German Panasonic DVD-S99 and it's predecessor,
the DVD-S97 late in UK but still available in US, IIRC. Both are excellent
machines and very similar to Oppo but with HDMI instead of DVI interface.

The new, cheaper Oppo DV-970HD uses HDMI.





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Richard Harison wrote:
But I don't think it has the Faroudja chip

that is correct, it does not; so im not really considering it. i asked
oppo why 971 doesnt have it and he said at the time of its design hdmi
was a bit flaky.

on avsforums there are rumors about their forth-coming replacement for
the 971, which will have hdmi.


matt

really though, what's the real advantage to HDMI when the 971 has both
optical/coaxial digital audio out? Seems like just one more cable to run,
that's all

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Richard Harison wrote:
But I don't think it has the Faroudja chip

that is correct, it does not; so im not really considering it. i asked
oppo why 971 doesnt have it and he said at the time of its design hdmi
was a bit flaky.

on avsforums there are rumors about their forth-coming replacement for
the 971, which will have hdmi.


matt




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Richard Harison wrote:
really though, what's the real advantage to HDMI when the 971 has both
optical/coaxial digital audio out? Seems like just one more cable to run,
that's all

one cable. rather, the *elimination* of running one more cable -- HDMI
does both audio & video. im not an audiophile, so i couldnt tell you if
its any good for audio or not, but for my purposes, its good. i just
wanna "set it & forget it", audio & video on one cable.


matt

On 2006-09-07, Alotta Fagina wrote:
You wrote:

on avsforums there are rumors about their forth-coming replacement for
the 971, which will have hdmi.

Do you have a link to any of those threads on AVSForum? Thanks.

Here is the main 971 thread:

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

And for the 970:

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=682896

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Richard Harison wrote:
really though, what's the real advantage to HDMI when the 971 has both
optical/coaxial digital audio out? Seems like just one more cable to
run,
that's all

one cable. rather, the *elimination* of running one more cable -- HDMI
does both audio & video. im not an audiophile, so i couldnt tell you if
its any good for audio or not, but for my purposes, its good. i just
wanna "set it & forget it", audio & video on one cable.


matt

I guess if you run the hdmi to your tv and playback audio through your tv's
speakers then you've ~eliminated~ a cable...but what's the fun in that?

Khee Mao wrote on Thu, 07 Sep 2006 23:12:12 GMT:


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Richard Harison wrote:
really though, what's the real advantage to HDMI when the 971 has
both optical/coaxial digital audio out? Seems like just one more
cable to run,
that's all

one cable. rather, the *elimination* of running one more cable --
HDMI does both audio & video. im not an audiophile, so i couldnt tell
you if its any good for audio or not, but for my purposes, its good.
i just wanna "set it & forget it", audio & video on one cable.


Agreed.

My kit is setup for HDMI only. A Gefen 3-port switch is used to connect it
all together.

I guess if you run the hdmi to your tv and playback audio through your
tv's speakers then you've ~eliminated~ a cable...but what's the fun in
that?


Don't mean to detract from your fun, but I used to a have very extensive
kit. Top-end Paradigm speakers, subwoofer and Denon receiver and found I
was focused more on kit rather the film I was actually there to watch.
I also had over 200 DVD titles. After awhile I became bored with it all
because it became very cumbersome and not very much fun.

These days I'm overly selective of kit and DVD titles. If the film and PQ
are good, I'm happy!!

Only thing I really miss though are the depth charge scenes of the DTS
track of R1 "U-571".

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Khee Mao wrote:
I guess if you run the hdmi to your tv and playback audio through your tv's
speakers then you've ~eliminated~ a cable...but what's the fun in that?

suits my needs. not interested in a giant entertainment center in my
living room, just a quality device for watching movies.


matt

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Khee Mao wrote:
I guess if you run the hdmi to your tv and playback audio through your
tv's
speakers then you've ~eliminated~ a cable...but what's the fun in that?

suits my needs. not interested in a giant entertainment center in my
living room, just a quality device for watching movies.


matt


just a giant HDTV, gotcha.

Khee Mao wrote:
just a giant HDTV, gotcha.

on the contrary -- the 36" sony crt i have in mind isnt really that
large. its just a tv, which i may very well hide inside an armoir.

it is not a 50" display, dvd player, vcr, game console, reciever, audio
components, media pc, entertainment hub. big difference.


matt