On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 3:56 PM, scolumbo <sacolumbo@gmail.com> wrote:
Who's hung on playing physical media? I play virtually all my music from stored digital media (ISO's and flacs) with my Oppo. The exception being I still play stereo SACD discs so I can play DSD direct to analog. Can your system do that?
For movies, I play everything I own from ISO's, whether it's Blu-ray or DVD. However, for movie rentals, I still want an excellent disc player because I don't want to rip everything I rent. It's also dead quiet, and powers on and is ready to play in a few seconds with a press of a button on my Harmony remote. I think the Oppo gives me the best of both worlds.
On Wednesday, June 13, 2012 6:27:13 PM UTC-4, pj-mckay wrote:--I can't believe there are so many folk hung up on playing physical media when it's almost obsolete (or should be), apart from Blu-ray. So-what if the oppo plays an iso? There are many NMTs out there which will play the iso file, play the flacs, play the mp3, run from NAS, play video etc. All with the ease of a remote control and a central location without raking through shelfs looking for some scratched disc with a felt pen label. Same with a decent HTPC... a one stop solution essentially without fussing for media then listening to it whirring away in the background. Time to move on I say. [Just added an SSD drive and an antec 600rpm silent fan to my SK Jukebox HTPC too; excellent now (the HP laptop was a disaster when the fan kicked in and sounded like a hairdryer)]I do play DVD and Blu Ray from a standalone device I wil admit, as I can't be bothered ripping films I'll rarely watch and wasting storage space, and its simple to get all the features. Audio, home movies, photographs are ALL on the NAS for ease of use and access from anywhere in the house. I'm happy structuring all my media in alphabetic groups OR running Twonky to index it all in variuos indexes and love the access I have. With HDMI, coax or optical to the Denon 1909 I'm very happy at the moment.If I needed to upgrade sonically I could just add a better spec NMT... no fuss, no hassle, music when I want it. SACD PS3 rips, DVDA flac, CD flac, all on the home network; perfect and works for us all! Surely has to be the future ???Lets hear some more from the NMT and media player fraternity, particularly the good stuff. I want to hear the hi-res stuff without an optical disc in the house !
On Thursday, 7 June 2012 06:47:36 UTC+1, RW wrote:As usual, Det. Columbo <g> is correct. The Oppo 93/95 players did a marvelous job of playing back ISO files. I find this the most convenient way for me to store my surround sound music on my hard disc. Not only can my Oppo play back these files seamlessly, but it also allows me to quickly create a burned copy ready to be played by *any* DVD/DVD-Audio/Blu-ray player by simply dragging and dropping the ISO file onto ImgBurn.For these reasons, I have refused to update my BDP-93 with the newer firmware. And, keep in mind, once you update an Oppo with the newer firmware, you *cannot* go back to an older version. I am seriously considering buying another unit to keep in storage in the event my current one goes down...-RW-
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