OK, so given a choice between working outside in the freezing rain getting ready for Boomershoot (we head out tomorrow morning) or playing with the new Oppo a bit I chose the latter.

First surprise - motion-activated lighting on the remote. Dang !

I haven't changed the audio hookup (still coax to AVR) or the video hookup (still HDMI to 720p Sanyo projector) so wasn't expecting to see much in the way of different performance yet, however...

1. I do think the picture looks a bit better than the old Sony, so maybe downscaling is improved, but it could be placebo effect

2. Modern players are fast - the old Sony could take several minutes loading newer BD's, although Sony deserves a lot of credit for keeping the firmware upgrades going long enough to even run them at all

The main reason for upgrading was to get 7.1 audio and support for newer audio formats (not Atmos though, that still needs newer AVR) so that is all still to come. It will have to wait until we get back from Idaho though.

Last edited by bridgman; 04/15/18 04:03 PM.
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