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| OPPO DV-980H 1080p Up-Converting Universal DVD Player with HDMI and 7.1CH Audio | 
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| Brand: OPPO Digital
Category: CE
List Price: $169.99
Buy New: $169.00
You Save: $0.99 (1%)
New (4) Used (1) from $149.99
Avg. Customer Rating:  217 reviews
Sales Rank: 284
Color: Blank
Media: Electronics
Batteries Included: Yes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 7.5
Dimensions (in): 20 x 14 x 4
Warranty: 1 year warranty
MPN: DV-980H
Model: DV-980H
EAN: 6920053830482
ASIN: B000UIA6YM
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 Oppo 980 is the Excellent Plus September 19, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is a superb DVD player. Image quality is excellent
and I really like the controls and feature set. There are
many upscalers that cost less, but I feel this player is
worth the money. Value +++
I'm really happy that I bought this player. September 5, 2007
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
Just finished hooking the 980H player up to my Sony 1080i rear projection with an HDMI to DVI converter cable and tried some DVDs. There is a very noticeable improvement in the picture quality. HD movies always looked better on cable than DVDs with my old player, but now the DVDs look as good as the HD. I tried the animated DVD "Cars" and the picture is fantastic. I can't imagine the picture being any better.
I also like the other goodies too such as multiple slow motion speeds and zoom.
Excellent Picture Quality September 4, 2007
29 out of 30 found this review helpful
I have a friend who just picked up this player and we watched a movie on it and it looks fantastic!!! I have an HD DVD player which does a great job of up-converting non-HD DVD movies to 1080p but this seemed a bit more sharp. I've seen cheaper players that do up-conversions but this one struck me as being much better. For me, the slight increase in sharpness isn't worth spending $200 for, but if you don't have anything to up-convert a DVD then this would be an excellent option at a decent price until you do pick up a high definition player.
Oppo 980 as audio only universal player August 31, 2007
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
I bought this to put in my study for playing CD's, HDCD's (I'll bet some of your CD's are HDCD's and you don't even know it - a higher sound quality level) SACD's (even higher quality) and DVD-A's (same sound quality as SACD - no flame war, please). Even with no video required (except to set it up, once) it's STILL a bargain.
Give your Standard-Def DVDs New Life August 24, 2007
24 out of 24 found this review helpful
Until the HD/Blu-Ray hi-def DVD format war is resolved and the prices of those hi-def players and discs become sane, the Oppo DV-980H is an excellent choice and the price $169 is most reasonable (good quality HDMI cable is included!) I purchased this player directly from Oppo in early August 2007 (Amazon wasn't offering it at the time, so I paid an additional $12 shipping charge.) The upconversion to 1080p is outstanding (HDMI connection required. Fortunately my Sony 40" HDTV has 2 HDMI inputs.) I would say that on a standard def 16:9 DVD the picture quality at 1080p is about 60-70% of what you would get in hi-def. It is NOT hi-def, but it is as close as you can get without paying outrageous prices. It also will play other Region coded DVDs (with an easy hack.) The only issue I have encountered is that some DVDs that are 16:9 letterbox are not upconverted to full screen (the letterbox is constrained to 4:3 pillar box.) Don't know why this is. This happens on older DVD versions of 2001 (menu is full screen, but not the film itself), Monty Python and the Holy Grail, and a 16:9 version of A&E's Nero Wolfe. Other older letterboxed DVDs display just fine. (Is there some coding on the DVD preventing upscaled display? One of Life's DVD Mysteries, I guess.) Completely unrelated to the player's performance is Oppo's impressive packaging of the player. Somebody really cared about quality from the packaging on up. This player performs as advertised (can't ask more than that.)
Addendum Jan 3, 2008:
I purchased new special edition of 2001 and it plays great. Don't know what the issue was with the older release.
Addendum Jan 5, 2008:
It appears the high-def DVD format war is drawing to a close with Warner announcing, conveniently timed to just after the holiday shopping season, exclusive support of Blu-ray. Of course, until Blu-ray hardware and software costs drop substantially, the Oppo is still a good buy.
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