- Plays All-Region DVDs: PAL/NTSC Region 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 0 And Blu Ray Zones: A, B, C,
- No jitters, frame skips, jaggies or lost picture perfect 1:1 PAL to NTSC conversion. Built in 128MB auto converter watch all PAL DVDs on NTSC without any extra converters
- BUILT-IN WI FI ONLINE STREAMING DivX AVI MKV, NETFLIX, YOUTUBE - With 250GB Hard Drive
- Superior Audio Performance that supports surround sound up to 7.1 channels with Dolby Digital Plus, Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Advanced Digital Out technologies.
- 110 Volts Only - Requires Power Converter to be used Overseas
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Introducing the first Blu-Ray DiscTM Player that can store and stream! The BD590 gives you the best of the Internet with wireless access to NetCast, but that's not all. With a 250GB hard drive, all your favorite entertainment can live in one place, letting you instantly enjoy music, photos, home videos and HD VOD from VuduTM. When one device can deliver this many home entertainment options, you really have to ask-is it a Blu-Ray DiscTM Player, or something better?
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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful
The Oppo 95 is an amazing piece of gear. Too many DVD players focus on the video at the expense of audio. This is a challenge especially for people who have a great collection of concert videos. What sets the Oppo 95 apart from all other blu-ray players is that it has an incredible audio DAC. This player sounds as good at any $2000 audiophile SACD/CD player. A true must for HEARING as well as SEEING concert videos.
Even though the player is great, check around locally for pricing. See the Oppo website for a retailed near you. The price on Amazon is not the normal selling price, which should be $999.
PS Oppo, if you read this....add an ipod USB port that pulls the signal bypassing the ipod DAC and playing it through the Oppo DAC. Do that and you have have a truely world class product.
Even though the player is great, check around locally for pricing. See the Oppo website for a retailed near you. The price on Amazon is not the normal selling price, which should be $999.
PS Oppo, if you read this....add an ipod USB port that pulls the signal bypassing the ipod DAC and playing it through the Oppo DAC. Do that and you have have a truely world class product.
11 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Caveat: all comments below are based on a stock BDP-95. The region free modded model is the only version on Amazon at this time. While I did buy the region free hardware kit (at about 10% of the extra pricing on this version) & installed it myself; mine was purchased stock.
Please consider this a placeholder review; I plan to greatly expand on it in the future; especially as I have spent little time with standard cd on the player.
My main purpose in buying this player was for hi-res audio; I don't even own a hi-def television. I was hoping to find a relatively inexpensive player (by high end standards) that would make hi-res music sound better than cd's currently do on my cd front end. It's replacing a Pioneer DV-578A that was great for the price, but was of lower sonic quality than the rest of my system.
I'm now at around 5 weeks of the unit being powered up for burn in. I'm using the Shunyata Venom power cord, & a 90's Tara (unbalanced RCA) "Analog Standard" interconnect.
While very sensitive to the mastering quality of what it's playing, on hi res this puppy is STAGGERING. I am stunned that this level of musicality is available at this price point. The only better front end I have ever owned was an entry level (around 2k in early 90's dollars) Well Tempered Record Player with a Blue Point standard; & that is based on a very OLD memory as I had to sell the TT in 1995.
2 tips for new owners:
1. People have told me it needs 100-500 hours of burn in before it sounds it's best. That has been my experience also. While it actually sounds quite good right out of the box, at 5 weeks it's still getting better & better.
2. If you plan to play iso's, make sure you have firmware dated no later than 12/11 (P9x-61-1219). Oppo has been forced to remove this capability starting with the 1/12 firmware release. One person states that Oppo's don't allow flashing to older firmware; so for some people this may be an important issue.
I've also been discovering the wonders of high res music files on a USB Flash drive; the Oppo will play music in 4 different ways: by disc, USB, E-sata (hard drive), & streamed over a network. There seems to be some thought that an advantage to playing files with a USB port is a reduction in timing jitter due to the lack of a spinning disc (or hard drive).
I haven't done much redbook cd listening due to time constraints. Did a quicky comparison tonight between my old but beloved Esoteric P-10->Illuminati->PS Audio SL3 & the BDP 95. The comparison was a bit flawed as somehow the PS Audio had been powered down (I don't know for how long). Under those circumstances the Oppo was more refined & had a better soundstage (IMO soundstaging is this puppy's #1 strength). I need to do follow up on this when i have some time.
For the price this puppy is amazing; especially if you look at it as a $500 Blu-ray player & a $500 audio player!
At this time I'd say it has 4 main weaknesses, all of which I can live with at this price point:
1. Unforgiving of bad mastering
2. Occasional lock ups & glitches with the internal (infernal??) computer
3. Apparently parts of the HDCD licensing have changed since the 90's; HDCD red book is AT LEAST the uncorrected 3db quieter than regular cd; it feels like considerably more than 3 db.
4. 1/2 second or so pause between tracks when playing computer files. Usually this is no big deal, but it made side 2 of Abbey Road (as an example) pretty unlistenable! This ONLY impacts computer files (wav, flac, etc), NOT CD, SACD or DVD-A.
Oppo tells me this is a known issue that they DON'T plan to fix.
The biggest strength is soundstaging, & it's musicality especially on hi-res material.
Very briefly on video: It has 2 processors: a high end Marvell that only works with "HDMI #1" & some sort of an Oppo processor for the component out I use with my CRT Sony Wega 36" & also is used with "HDMI #2". Even though i am using the low end video processor, the unit still produces the best picture quality I've ever had in my home on both dvd & blu.
In conclusion to this initial review: back in the days of vinyl I used to just sit with the lights out & listen to music, even on the "mid-fi" mass market systems I had growing up & as a young adult. With cd, for years I found myself getting distracted & having to read or something similar while listening as cd just doesn't feel very involving to me (& I'm not an analog is king kind of person, I own several thousand cd's), but with Hi-res music on the Oppo, I once again can just melt into the music & don't feel fidgety.
More to come when I have more time, this is such an amazing unit that I consider this review way too short.
Edit 4/13/12: I really still want to greatly expand this review, but for the moment 3 comments from extended listening:
1. I finally got to do some 16/44 redbook cd comparison between the Oppo & my Esoteric/PS Audio front end. My tentative conclusion: At 1/3 of what I paid for the cd player in the 90's the Oppo has significantly better soundstaging on cd, though I have a slight preference tonally for the old player (on cd only).
2. I have gotten used to the 3d imaging of (quality) high-rez really quickly. I largely now take it for granted except when it's not there: i.e. it's become a bit difficult to listen to regular cd at all on my high end system!
3. My one concern is the semi frequent computer glitches & lockups (mostly on audio only listening, not on video playback) that require a power cycle. While it's not a daily occurrence, it happens often enough that it is a little concerning. Fortunately I bought a 4 year warranty in case this gets worse.
Please consider this a placeholder review; I plan to greatly expand on it in the future; especially as I have spent little time with standard cd on the player.
My main purpose in buying this player was for hi-res audio; I don't even own a hi-def television. I was hoping to find a relatively inexpensive player (by high end standards) that would make hi-res music sound better than cd's currently do on my cd front end. It's replacing a Pioneer DV-578A that was great for the price, but was of lower sonic quality than the rest of my system.
I'm now at around 5 weeks of the unit being powered up for burn in. I'm using the Shunyata Venom power cord, & a 90's Tara (unbalanced RCA) "Analog Standard" interconnect.
While very sensitive to the mastering quality of what it's playing, on hi res this puppy is STAGGERING. I am stunned that this level of musicality is available at this price point. The only better front end I have ever owned was an entry level (around 2k in early 90's dollars) Well Tempered Record Player with a Blue Point standard; & that is based on a very OLD memory as I had to sell the TT in 1995.
2 tips for new owners:
1. People have told me it needs 100-500 hours of burn in before it sounds it's best. That has been my experience also. While it actually sounds quite good right out of the box, at 5 weeks it's still getting better & better.
2. If you plan to play iso's, make sure you have firmware dated no later than 12/11 (P9x-61-1219). Oppo has been forced to remove this capability starting with the 1/12 firmware release. One person states that Oppo's don't allow flashing to older firmware; so for some people this may be an important issue.
I've also been discovering the wonders of high res music files on a USB Flash drive; the Oppo will play music in 4 different ways: by disc, USB, E-sata (hard drive), & streamed over a network. There seems to be some thought that an advantage to playing files with a USB port is a reduction in timing jitter due to the lack of a spinning disc (or hard drive).
I haven't done much redbook cd listening due to time constraints. Did a quicky comparison tonight between my old but beloved Esoteric P-10->Illuminati->PS Audio SL3 & the BDP 95. The comparison was a bit flawed as somehow the PS Audio had been powered down (I don't know for how long). Under those circumstances the Oppo was more refined & had a better soundstage (IMO soundstaging is this puppy's #1 strength). I need to do follow up on this when i have some time.
For the price this puppy is amazing; especially if you look at it as a $500 Blu-ray player & a $500 audio player!
At this time I'd say it has 4 main weaknesses, all of which I can live with at this price point:
1. Unforgiving of bad mastering
2. Occasional lock ups & glitches with the internal (infernal??) computer
3. Apparently parts of the HDCD licensing have changed since the 90's; HDCD red book is AT LEAST the uncorrected 3db quieter than regular cd; it feels like considerably more than 3 db.
4. 1/2 second or so pause between tracks when playing computer files. Usually this is no big deal, but it made side 2 of Abbey Road (as an example) pretty unlistenable! This ONLY impacts computer files (wav, flac, etc), NOT CD, SACD or DVD-A.
Oppo tells me this is a known issue that they DON'T plan to fix.
The biggest strength is soundstaging, & it's musicality especially on hi-res material.
Very briefly on video: It has 2 processors: a high end Marvell that only works with "HDMI #1" & some sort of an Oppo processor for the component out I use with my CRT Sony Wega 36" & also is used with "HDMI #2". Even though i am using the low end video processor, the unit still produces the best picture quality I've ever had in my home on both dvd & blu.
In conclusion to this initial review: back in the days of vinyl I used to just sit with the lights out & listen to music, even on the "mid-fi" mass market systems I had growing up & as a young adult. With cd, for years I found myself getting distracted & having to read or something similar while listening as cd just doesn't feel very involving to me (& I'm not an analog is king kind of person, I own several thousand cd's), but with Hi-res music on the Oppo, I once again can just melt into the music & don't feel fidgety.
More to come when I have more time, this is such an amazing unit that I consider this review way too short.
Edit 4/13/12: I really still want to greatly expand this review, but for the moment 3 comments from extended listening:
1. I finally got to do some 16/44 redbook cd comparison between the Oppo & my Esoteric/PS Audio front end. My tentative conclusion: At 1/3 of what I paid for the cd player in the 90's the Oppo has significantly better soundstaging on cd, though I have a slight preference tonally for the old player (on cd only).
2. I have gotten used to the 3d imaging of (quality) high-rez really quickly. I largely now take it for granted except when it's not there: i.e. it's become a bit difficult to listen to regular cd at all on my high end system!
3. My one concern is the semi frequent computer glitches & lockups (mostly on audio only listening, not on video playback) that require a power cycle. While it's not a daily occurrence, it happens often enough that it is a little concerning. Fortunately I bought a 4 year warranty in case this gets worse.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
I bought this about 6 months ago. Oppo 95 rocks! It plays CD, MP3, DVD, and Blu Ray like no other player I have ever owned. I have owned most of the Blue Box upper end types. The sound quility is right on and picture is even better. You would have to buy a CD player in the thousands and then a upper end Blu Ray player in the thousands on top of that to match what this can do. Pandora sounds as good as CDs and Sdacs through this machine. If you are sitting on the fence do buy this and you will be happy. Oppo support is excellent, I had a problem with the HDMI jack and they sent me a new one right away and there have been no problem since. If you have high end equipment this device will make them shine.
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