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Secrets of Home Theater and High Fidelity has run the newly released Oppo DV-981HD through its comprehensive DVD Benchmark suite. In Oppo tradition, the DV-981HD handles almost all of tests with great aplomb, only failing the “Sync Subtitle to Frames” test and scoring “borderline” on the Recovery Time test. Passing the remainder of the 22 tests yield the Oppo DV-981HD an exceptional score of 98 which is only bested by the $800 Samsung BD-P1200. The DV-918HD is universal DVD player featuring support for DVD-Audio and SACD but is one of the few dvd players that can pass the SACD signal (converted to 88.2/24 PCM) over its HDMI 1.1 connection. Its exceptional deinterlacing is a result of Oppo’s use of the FLI-2310 LF chip which also performs scaling duties; it features the Mediatek MT1389FE for MPEG decoding which results in excellent core performance. The Oppo DV-981 is an exceptional value at $229 especially given Oppo’s superb customer service and frequent firmware updates.

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