ertoili wrote:
85 euro BD player "or" 195 euro HDR BD player for the last Samsung HD Ready Plasma (1024x768) ??
Your opinion thanks
I think future proofing yourself would be beneficial for later on. As far as performance goes, they will be equal. All BD players output the same over HDMI. The differences are loading speed(all recent ones are super fast anyway), streaming services(which oppo has none), upscaling of DVDs (if you care) and analog audio output (some have no analog sections)
Some may argue that some BD players offer better picture. This is simply due some players molesting the signal with their crap enhancements (such as true cinema, darbee, black enhancer etc). While some players allow you to disable these completely, some will still apply some enhancement even they are off in the menu. A good example is the Oppo BDP 93/95/103/105 will continue to apply a very mild noise reduction on the HDMI 1 output even at DNR OFF setting. This is due to the bug in the Marvel QDEO chip (which Marvel won't fix) on the HDMI 1 output. You can simply use the HDMI 2 output which bypasses this chip and have a pure output.
I was looking for further info about what Substance wrote regarding QDEO chip having a bug.