Oppo UDP-203 4K Blu Ray Disc Player

DuncanS said:

Its a very nice machine, way way better than the Denon.

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colsky said:

I'm going to have to go the Oppo route one of these days, as I'm not having a lot of luck with my Denons. I had one of their more expensive machines, a 4010ud, for a few years, until it decided to start skipping when playing any disc. I then got a cheaper model, a 1713ud, a couple of years ago. This played fine until recently. I got a new tv, and as a result I had to move everything. Once everything was in place, and cables back in, unfortunately my 1713ud then started skipping on playing discs too. Now here's the strange thing - I then noticed that the player didn't skip when playing if the tv display was on. If I turned the tv off the disc started skipping again. This is slightly annoying, but I can live with it. Does this make sense to anyone?

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DuncanS said:

I've been musing on this one. Does your Denon have HDMI CEC? Consumer Equipment Control. If it does try turning it off on the Set-up menu. I'm wondering if you player is trying to handshake with the TV - which isn't there. Alternatively if its On in Set-up turn it off! The cr*p Denon would cut-out all sound if I was playing some music and turned on the TV (a 2010 Panasonic), then come back once the TV was fully on.

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colsky said:

Many thanks Duncan. The HDMI Control was actually off, but I turned it to on, then back to off again. This fingers crossed seems to have sorted it, I have tried a few discs and no skipping

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DuncanS said:

The cr*p Denon would cut-out all sound if I was playing some music and turned on the TV (a 2010 Panasonic), then come back once the TV was fully on.

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atrocity said:

I've never had any HDMI-connected equipment that didn't do that, regardless of brand name or lossy/lossless audio format.

The worst one of all is my W*nd*ws computer which simply mutes any and all HDMI audio if I turn the TV off and will not bring it back without a reboot, making it useless as a headless renderer for multichannel FLAC.

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salsdali said:

can anyone confirm whether the 203 will rip SACD's like the 103 or not??

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surroundophile said:

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