Owen Smith
1K Club - QQ Shooting Star
I went for a pair of 203s due to wanting gapless playback of FLACs (someone will now tell me the 103 does that...) Unfortunately it only works perfectly 90% of the time, the remaining 10% I get a click in one channel or more. It's disappointing.I was thinking of getting another one as a spare. Does anyone really need the 4K video of the 203/204 series? Most of us only care about the audio..
However I have found that even though I have a 1080p TV, 4K blu rays downscaled to 1080p look better than standard blu rays. I suspect this is due to the chroma on the discs being 4:2:0 ie half resolution in one direction and quarter in the other, so I get the extra chroma resolution. EDIT: the Oppo 203 is set to output Chroma 4:4:4, without that the extra chroma resolution would be lost. I also have 12 bit set.
I've also found streaming services like Prime or Apple TV+ give a low bit rate stream with crap audio and video at 1080p. The 4K streams are much higher bit rate, so I'm feeding my Apple TV 4K into the Oppo 203 HDMI input and having the 203 downscale the video. It sounds and looks MUCH better than setting the Apple TV 4K to output 1080p. And doing this downscaling really upsets the Apple TV 4K forum users on avforums.com, they're indignant that you're not supposed to do this and it shouldn't work. But it works great for me.
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