I was wondering so I picked through their website. Indeed the "Magnolia" in store experience has been removed and/or rebranded as you describe. I haven't wandered any of the local Best Buys here in Vegas in quite a while, but they all seem to have the 'premium home theater' experience listed on the store finder. I'll report back if I can stop by one in the near future.
I'm kind of secretly hoping my 203 needs repair so I can ship back to Oppo for servicing and have a freshly refurbished machine.
I have no idea, just repeating what my friend was told when he was in the store.
With my superb sounding all-analog system (see profile), that's my only way to get a digital component connected in!
Out of interest... What file format types wont play?
i also have 3 Oppo's - 80, 93 and a recently acquired 103 plus the Sony X800M2 plus another cheap Panasonic that plays 3D. i try to rotate them. right now the 103 is the favorite because not only is it the newest latest greatest but because it has an HDMI in where i can plug in a Roku.
It's got nothing to do with optical media sales. The issue is production line capacity in the Oppo factories in China, they can make more profit using the capacity to make mobile phones than they can blu ray players. Originally Oppo had spare manufacturing capacity, Oppo Digital (the DVD and blu ray player division) was partly set up to use that capacity.
The clicking of the relays on my Oppo 95 is immensely annoying to me, especially since it does it every time I play any file or move to a different thing like an extra on an optical disc. I was very pleased when I got an Oppo 203 to discover it doesn't do any of the damned clicking!
I understood that entirely. I stuck with my 95 while I needed multi channel analogue outputs because I missed the boat for a new 205 and couldn't justify the price of them second hand. But when my non HDMI AVR died and I bought one that handles all the HDMI audio formats, I immediately bought two decent condition second hand 203s (one as a spare).
Could you share those instructions????yeah at least email them about your situtation. that's what i just did with my Oppo 93 that kept giving me the "no disc" message. they responded with instructions on how to clean the laser. i'm back up and running
If you're handy, just remove the cabinet from the chassis. Then remove the laser cover and clean the laser. I just use 91% or > strength isopropyl with a cotton ball and finish off with a dry cotton ball or soft cotton cloth. No need to apply any pressure and probably best not to use anything that could scratch like cloth with synthetic threads in it.
The relays on my Onkyo TX-RZ50 can make a noticeable clicking sound from time to time. I know it means the receiver is actually doing what it's supposed to do, but it can be slightly annoying if I concentrate on it. However, I have never heard anything like that coming from either of my two OPPO players (UDP-203, BDP-103.) My only regret with OPPO is that I was on the waiting list for their final batch of UDP-205's to come off the assembly line but they were all gone before they got to me.
Yes. I have the TX-RZ50 as well. Although all the disc players go hdmi directly to the AVR, I input my pc's via hdmi into a switch, then into the AVR. I think every time I switch the input source on the switch, I get the relay click. Can't say it really bothers me. Slow hdmi handshake with my monitor gets on my nerve though.
sure, here you go:
Looks like they are all dying at the same time. I had the same problem with my BDP93 and got the same info from Oppo. Unfortunately it didn't work for me, but it's worth a try. I sent it for repair and Oppo replaced the disc loader. Now waiting to get it back.
