Escient FireBall SE-D1 - media center PC and Sony DVDP-777ES [Archive]

danzeb

January 5th, 2007, 11:54

<p class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt; COLOR: #222222; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Anyone have any experience with these?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>I am in the market for a new DVD player, and I will continue to sit out the HD-BD thing for awhile.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>MY TV has only one DVI input and component inputs, but no HDMI.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Also the Denon I have has no HDMI as well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>I have read the reviews on here of the oppo which seems great.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>I will be hooking up the DVD through component so any upconversion needs to be done through that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>I use my one DVI for my cable box since sports in HD are my top priority.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Upconversion is not a must, but would be nice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>Having a media manager and all my DVDs in one place would be more important to me that is why I am asking about these products.<o:p></o:p></span></p><BR><p class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt; COLOR: #222222; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><BR><p class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt; COLOR: #222222; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">I read all about HTPC (HR, Maximo, and a thread back in April by YROMJ) and I was thinking of having one unit with a HD and BD players built in, that would hold all my media.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>But it seems if that solution is still a bit off and probably much more expensive. <o:p></o:p></span></p><BR><p class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt; COLOR: #222222; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><BR><p class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt; COLOR: #222222; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">So, any thoughts as to the media manager and the Sony 400 disc player?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><BR><p class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt; COLOR: #222222; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><BR><div class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt; COLOR: #222222; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">I am definitely waiting to see what will be released at the CES, so I am not purchasing anything this weekend.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>But I am just trying to gain as much insight as possible.</span><BR><div><BR><p class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt; COLOR: #222222; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Thanks as always for any input,<o:p></o:p></span></p><BR><p class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt; COLOR: #222222; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><BR><p class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt; COLOR: #222222; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Dan</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p></o:p></span></p><BR></div><BR><div> </div><BR><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p></o:p></span></div><BR>

Towen7

January 10th, 2007, 03:51

<div>I recalled reading that the Oppo dvd player outputs 480i through the component connection only, so i went back and found the review...</div><BR><div> </div><BR><div><a href="http://www.hometheaterhifi.com/cgi-bin/shootout.cgi?function=search&articles=all">http://www.hometheaterhifi.com/cgi-bin/shootout.cgi?function=search&articles=all</a></div><BR><div> </div><BR><div>As you can see from the Benchmark scores, the 971H is an outstanding budget DVD player. But I must advise you that the scores only pertain to the DVI output. This playerï¿½s component outputs do not support progressive playback, only 480i, so we were not able to plot a video frequency response curve. I was quite surprised, because Iï¿½ve never seen this before. The DVI video board in the player houses the Genesis FLI-2310 video processing chip, so the component video connections cannot take advantage of it.</div><BR><div> </div><BR><div>I personally have not seen the oppo player. I know the search function of the forum software has been tempermantal lately so this may help...</div><BR><div><a href="http://www.soundandvisionmag.com/idealbb/view.asp?topicID=52063&forumID=43&search=1&searchs tring">http://www.soundandvisionmag.com/idealbb/view.asp?topicID=52063&forumID=43&search=1&searchs tring</a>=</div><BR><div> </div><BR>