"Hate Defecation Murder Interface?" Please tell me that you're not serious.Hate Defecation Murder Interface board
"Hate Defecation Murder Interface?" Please tell me that you're not serious.Hate Defecation Murder Interface board
Have you checked Emotiva?All this begs the question... Why doesn't anybody manufacture an multi-channel amplifier with HDMI inputs that's dedicated to audio decoding along with video pass-through.
Personally, I don't need a AVR that offers a radio, bluetooth, apps, video processing, weird audio effects or any other fancy features. I just want a device that decodes the major audio formats such as: PCM, the Dolby's, the DTS's and maybe Auro and MPEG-H.
I use my Oppo to play files. The only things it doesn’t do is shuffle (which my roku does) and play MS playlists from a PC (which my Marantz does, but not all that well).Performance has to be pretty darn poor to be actually routinely audible.
And for me, with everything ripped to files, there's no need for a holy Oppo device.
I was never able to compare dacs like you did.. so ty for that! We have 3 oppos. The udp203 in the living room, bdp93 bedroom, and the bdp103 sitting aside in it's box waiting for a tube amp thats been on order for over 1 1/2 years now. Never a single problem with any of them over the years. Keepers for sure! Sure wish they would have stayed put in the physical playback world.I use my Oppo to play files. The only things it doesn’t do is shuffle (which my roku does) and play MS playlists from a PC (which my Marantz does, but not all that well).
Its DACs are excellent, and as I noted in an earlier post, I did an informal comparison of how it played a FLAC on a stick and preferred it to the Marantz.
I’ve had a couple of issues with my Oppo 105D that all seemed to be due to corrupted USB sticks that I left plugged in to the Oppo all the time. Other than that, it’s been the workhorse source for me for about a decade.I was never able to compare dacs like you did.. so ty for that! We have 3 oppos. The udp203 in the living room, bdp93 bedroom, and the bdp103 sitting aside in it's box waiting for a tube amp thats been on order for over 1 1/2 years now. Never a single problem with any of them over the years. Keepers for sure! Sure wish they would have stayed put in the physical playback world.
Did your player itself remain ok once the bad usb sticks not used? That 105 I really wanted at the time..just couldn't swing it so went for the 103. You have a fantastic player.I’ve had a couple of issues with my Oppo 105D that all seemed to be due to corrupted USB sticks that I left plugged in to the Oppo all the time. Other than that, it’s been the workhorse source for me for about a decade.
I’m not sure if I want to outlive it. I’ll be devastated when it dies.
The player is fine as of yesterday (I haven’t fired anything but my ipad up today). Unplugging the sticks usually worked, although unplugging the Oppo from power has also been done, although that might not have been necessary.Did your player itself remain ok once the bad usb sticks not used? That 105 I really wanted at the time..just couldn't swing it so went for the 103. You have a fantastic player.
I had heard they handled business just like you said..I have three Oppo's and an old Samsung "universal" players.
Oppo DV-970HD (my first one)
Oppo BDP-80 (first BD player?) Plays SACD-R natively as they didn't change the firmware on it. FWIW.
Oppo BDP-103 (Only one not boxed up and stored)
I had a Samsung HD-841 and a Samsung HD941, both with hacked firmware. I gave the 941 to my stepson, still have the other.
Alas I missed the boat on buying the newer model Oppo's. But although I don't really use a disc player that much, the 103 is jailbroke and suits me just fine.
Only the 970HD has been out to Cali for repairs. Don't remember exactly what they did, but it was repaired and on it's way back the same day they received. Great service!
Cost I think $49 + shipping to Cali, the return was on their dime.
HDMI is convenient when it works. But it doesn't always and I seem to be extra-cursed when it comes to it, so I have a massive attitude problem regarding it. I've had two Onkyo receivers with a total of three defective HDMI boards, Raspberry Pi boxes that couldn't reliably output multichannel PCM via HDMI, a Roku that kept randomly going black until I re-routed the HDMI connection through a torturous, inconvenient hack of a workaround, and probably other stuff I'm forgetting."Hate Defecation Murder Interface?" Please tell me that you're not serious.
Using Marantz and Denon gear combined with very inexpensive Monoprice Certified HDMI cables, I've had near zero issues over the last 15 or more years? Only when my system was hit by lightning last summer did I go thru a number of headaches. I've now got a Monoprice 50' active optical cable handling the Linux music-video to AVR chores that is working reliably.So yes, I often refer to it as the Hate Defecation Murder Interface when I'm attempting to be polite and don't feel like it's a good place or time to call it "That fucking piece of god damned shit."
A different group, but all the USB confusion. Don't like this name? Hell we'll change it! Problems solved. Why can't USB C just be USB C? Arrggh.From the very beginning the HDMI Forum should have standardised their feature-set requirements for each specification, instead of leaving it up to the adopters to include or exclude the features they wanted!
But what do you expect from an organisation that permitted manufacturers to come up with so many different names for something as basic as HDMI CEC?
Very much enjoying the UBP-X800M2 I purchased a few months back. Plays about 98% of things I toss at it, just not a select few burned DVDs.ie: The Sony UBP-X700.
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