nipbiplip
Prominent Member
My 30 isn't as good SD-wise as my Oppo 971
Heres a question chaps
I will buy a HD 1080PJ next year but I do not want images being scaled twice.
Is there a way that I could turn the SD scaling on the Ep-30 off allowing the PJ to do the better scaling???
Thoughts apreciated (oh and I am looking at the PTAE2000)
Thanks
Dave
Pug, I don't want you to think I personally don't welcome your review, I think all user reports are a great source of information and I have learnt so much from the posters on this forum
I did think that your original post may appear to suggest that the EP30 is not very good at SD DVD playback, and questioned why so many had given it such a great review if that was the case.
IMO, there's always the question of motive, WRT professional reviews, with some which may be questionable, and may be influenced by factors such as advertising spend etc.. Which is why places such as this forum is so great, as the vast majority, 99% of posters, IMO are honestly sharing their opinons.
I do think though that we need to remember that it is only one opinion, combined with everyone elses it becomes a powerfull tool for anyone looking to purchase a player, but taken out of context and viewed individually, they are prone IMO to errors, possible prejudice, inaccuracies etc.. mainly because of the limited experience of the 'tester' and the variation of the kit avaliable.
This is the point I was trying to make.
As for your particular tests, I'm not surprised that you can't see a massive difference between two good SD players as I expect the upscaling and other processes performed by your display will overide any possible differences. IMO the law of disinishing returns is very aparrent here also and the difference you may hope to see would be relatively small and therefore easy to loose through the display.
In comparison, when I first got my Xbox HD-DVD addon I was a little disapointed. I was told KK was 'reference' material That HD was far better than SD. But although in an A/B comparison I could see an improvement I was still overall disapointed. So I spent a long time playing with the settings on my 32" 768 LCD. And eventually I was getting better results, I could see the improvements more clearly.. I still felt however that I was limited by my display.. So I got a 720P PJ, set that up, connected up the Xbox and sat back... I played a few SD DVD's to get a feel for it and get it roughly set-up... then I put a HD-DVD on.. WOW !!! I finally understood what an improvement HD was over SD Which is why I'm now reluctant to judge a component based solely on my experience..
Interesting as the Oppo has the Faroudja chipset I believe, which supposedly isn't as good as the Anchor Bay VRS and suffers from stuff like macroblocking.My 30 isn't as good SD-wise as my Oppo 971
Interesting as the Oppo has the Faroudja chipset I believe, which supposedly isn't as good as the Anchor Bay VRS and suffers from stuff like macroblocking.
Though TommyVecetti says the 30 is on a par with the Denon 1940 and I believe that uses Faroudja also, and again I'd expect the Anchor Bay to be better.
Odd, I updated mine on Wednesday via ethernet and it changed from 1.0 to the newest 1.3 firmware.Mine arrived on Wednesday.
Updated to firmware 1.1 in about 40 minutes yesterday.