OPPO OPDV971H Digital HD-Ready Up-Converting DVD Player
Best thing out there until True HD
I recently purchased the OPPO DVD player and am very impressed. I had tried several other upconvreting players, the Samsung 845 and LG, and was not impressed. However, the quality from the Oppo is excellent. I have the Oppo connected to my HDMI port and running in 720P, although its not quite up to HD quality it is very good. The other units I have tried out produced a somewhat noisy and washed out picture but not the Oppo! Picture quality was clean and vibrant. Newer DVD's like Star Wars and the Fifth Element looked almost HD quality. Older DVD's looked great too. The only feature I wish it had is the leterbox eliminator that the Samsung had, it allowed you to zoom and and crop the left and right of the 2.35:1 image to fit a 16:9 screen. You can however zoom to 1.5X with the Oppo and accomplish this but some aliasing occurs so I think I will just stick with the OAR for now. All in all I am very pleased, the player looks good, and works good.