I think it's neat that Oppo sent it, but now I understand more about why they sent it. It appears the commercial version of the Spears & Munsil BD comes with the blue lenses. But those of us in the EAP, at least, did not get the lenses with the disk packed with the BDP-83.

The AIX disk, which in part is a sampler designed to sell AIX recordings, uses the BDP-83 in illustrations accompanying the calibration stuff.

That is correct - Spears and Munsil had not get decided what blue filter they wanted to use when the BDP-83 started shipping, so they didn't include any filter with the discs OPPO bought to package with the BDP-83. New shipments include the filter, but they had always planned to ship the filters later. They ended up waiting a little bit so they could ship the filters and the AIX discs at the same time.

I ran into a problem when I tried to use the AIX calibration tools to set up my BDP-83 with my 1070. I cannot set the subwoofer properly.

I am using the analog outs from the BDP-83 and my system is set up as 5.1. I have the 1070 set with the mains large (B&W CDM 7NTs), center small (B&W CNT), and surrounds small (B&W CDM SNTs). The sub is set to LFE. On the BDP-83 all speakers are set to large and distance is 0. To get all audio channels the 1070 must be set to Ext. 7.1 and the only format choice is Bypass.

Using the 1070's calibration tone I made sure all channels were balanced on the receiver first. Then I tried to use the AIX channel calibration, all 3 of them, to set the BDP-83 volume levels for all speakers to make them equal. When I got to the sub I cranked it all the way up to 10db, the max, and I still get a very low reading on my SPL meter. I can make the setting for the sub match by boosting the level on the 1070, but that makes the system way out of balance for all other sources.

Am I missing something? Where should I be looking for a fix for this?

This latest discussion has caused me some thought. I have been disapointed with the 7.1 analog setup on SACD as well as Blue Ray discs. With the 7.1 on and watching a movie, the actors vioices cannot be heard. I need to switch back to the optical feed from the BDP-83 to my 990 and all is well. While playing an SACD through the 7.1 setup not all of the speakers are activated. I have two 2200 connecting the center speakers to the 990 analog inputs and five other speakers to the 990 analog inputs as well. Add the sub and you have eight connections into the 990's analog inputs. The resulting sound is disapointing since I am sure music is not produced through all channels. Any thoughts? :rolleyes:

Anybody who has considered picking up a BDP-83 might be interested in this link . AV Guide is giving away a BDP-83.

I was watching X-men 3 BR last night and everything loaded and played fine except for something weird with the sound.

I am using the 5.1 analog outs and during the menu I could hear sound from all channels, but when the movie was playing, there was no sound coming out of the right surround channel.

I was wondering if because it is a 6.1 mix that the player did not decode it correctly to down-mix to 5.1. I think this was the first 6.1 movie I have played or if I have watched another, it was correctly down-mixed.

Has anyone heard of this happening with the OPPO BDP-83?

I haven't run into that issue, but I also don't have that disc (or any of the X-Men films, for that matter).

I just tried LOTR extended DVD which says it is 6.1 DTS-ES. However, I selected 6.1, started playing the movie and DTS appears on the OPPO display. I pushed the audio button on the remote and on the TV screen it says it is DTS 5.1. I get sound from all speakers.

I also put this movie into my OPPO DV-983H, which is connected with a coaxial cable, selected the 6.1 track, started to play the movie and my Outlaw 950 processor display indicated it was receiving a DTS-ES 6.1 signal.

Now I'm confused.

This is with MCA 5.1 with 5.1 down-mix selected in the BDP-83 settings menu.

I just found that I do have X-Men 2 on DVD here, but it's listed as a DTS 5.1 track. I'll try a few 6.1 tracks tonight, but I don't recall running into any decoding errors such as you describe.

The BDP-83 can't decode DTS-ES internally. It will decode it as DTS 5.1. Of course, with the downmix set to 5.1 it would end up as 5.1 even if it could decode ES. I will toss LOTR-EE in here later and see what I find.

The 983H was bitstreaming audio via the coax to the 950 - very different process. The 950 can decode DTS-ES tracks.

I did not realize that the BDP-83 can not decode the DTS-ES soundtrack, but like you said, I would expect the BDP to downmix to 5.1 properly if it could.

I'm aussuming that the BDP can decode a 6.1 BR soundtrack and downmix to 5.1 thru the MCA outs. But since no sound was being output thru the right surround speaker, I'm wondering if the BDP can not do that either.

There are not a lot of 6.1 BRs, but I need to find a few and give them a try.

Thank you for taking the time to try this out on your system. I'm looking forward to the results.

Paul