Oppo BDP-93 Networking Universal Blu-ray Player

[Jables]

I cannot get any powered E-SATA hard drive to work with the OPPO BDP-93. I have tried powered E-SATA Western Digital and Seagate hard drives and the OPPO BDP-93 operating system cannot see a E-SATA drive connected. I tried both NTFS and FAT32 file formats and nothing works.

The reason I am posting this problem is because I wanted to know if anyone has successfully been able to get the OPPO BDP-93 to read from any E-SATA hard drives that are formatted as NTFS or FAT32?

Western Digital's eSATA is full of problems; I had a MyBook with USB/Firewire/eSATA and I never got the eSATA to work with any of my computers. I had read that WD's port will only work with certain other eSATA ports on board; this seems like nonsense, and I just took it to mean that eSATA was an afterthought. WD also doesn't support it like at all.

If you want to use eSATA, you probably need to be using a 3rd party enclosure, such as this one:
http://www.amazon.com/Thermaltake-A2...5818420&sr=8-6

I have one of these and have a WD Caviar Black drive inside; it works without any problems with my computer. I don't have a 93, so I can't try it for you, but if this arrangement doesn't work, then it's Oppo's fault.

Right now, I'd say the problem is with your WD; MyBook + something other than USB = not so good. Even Firewire barely works. Note that they've dropped all non-USB support from all their new non-network external harddrives.

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Western Digital's eSATA is full of problems; I had a MyBook with USB/Firewire/eSATA and I never got the eSATA to work with any of my computers. I had read that WD's port will only work with certain other eSATA ports on board; this seems like nonsense, and I just took it to mean that eSATA was an afterthought. WD also doesn't support it like at all.

If you want to use eSATA, you probably need to be using a 3rd party enclosure, such as this one:
http://www.amazon.com/Thermaltake-A2...5818420&sr=8-6

I have one of these and have a WD Caviar Black drive inside; it works without any problems with my computer. I don't have a 93, so I can't try it for you, but if this arrangement doesn't work, then it's Oppo's fault.

Right now, I'd say the problem is with your WD; MyBook + something other than USB = not so good. Even Firewire barely works. Note that they've dropped all non-USB support from all their new non-network external harddrives.

I am using both a Western Digital and Seagate hard drive in a third party hard drive enclosure. The E-SATA port located on the hard drive enclosure works on a computer. I realize E-SATA is not hot swappable and one needs to turn their computer and OPPO BDP-93 off first before connecting the hard drive.

So far the USB port worked fine with the OPPO but the E-SATA port is not compatible with the third party case I am using or the E-SATA port is broken on the OPPO BDP-93. I have another BDP-93 in another room and when I get the time I will try that player and at least isolate the problem to either an incompatibility issue with the E-SATA case I am using or one of the Blu-ray players might have a defective E-SATA jack.

The following is the spec sheet for the 3rd party case I am using for E-SATA

Data Sheet

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Some E-SATA hard drives are not compatible with the OPPO BDP-93

The OPPO BDP-93 has both a E-SATA II 3Gbps interface and a USB 2.0 480Mbps interface. Just like there are some USB flash drives that will not work with the OPPO BDP-93, there are also some models of E-SATA hard drive enclosures that will also not work on the OPPO BDP-93.

I tested my E-SATA hard drive on two different OPPO BDP-93’s and the E-SATA drive would not work on either one of them. I am guessing that most likely it would be very rare to have two defective OPPO BDP-93’s where the E-SATA port does not work. So it appears that the E-SATA hard drive enclosure I am using on a Western Digital and Seagate hard drive is not compatible with the OPPO BDP-93 (E-SATA enclosure works fine on desktop computer).

I have used AcomData Samba USB hard drive enclosures and the OPPO BDP-93 and OPPO BDP-83 work fine with those versions of the hard drive enclosures. The AcomData Samba SMBXXXU2SE-BLK E-SATA hard drive enclosure is not compatible with the OPPO BDP-93. Data Sheet
When I get sometime I will purchase another brand and model of E-SATA hard drive enclosure to see if I can get it to work with the OPPO BDP-93. So far I have not been able to get any E-SATA drive to work with the OPPO BDP-93 but both Seagate and Western Digital drives I used were using the same model of hard drive enclosure.

[Moondoggy69]

I "inherited" a home theater setup that had a Pioneer Elite DV-05. I know little to nothing about equipment but do want to upgrade the system to Blu-ray capability. I am looking to add the new Oppo BDP-93 and a JVC HD950 projector. My uncle had quite a few DVDs of which some are quite old.

Do I replace the Pioneer DV-05, which is THX listed, and use the new Oppo for all DVDs regardless if they're Blu-ray or old or do I use both players the DV-05 for old DVDs and the Oppo for all Blu-ray?

Any direction you can provide is most appreciated and thanks

M

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The OPPO BDP-93 will play Blu-ray's, DVD's, CD's, SACD's, DVD-Audio discs, and HDCD's. You do not need to use your old Pioneer DVD player anymore.

[ObsoleteFuture]

does anyone see a difference in the SD DVD upconversion performance compared to the 83's ABT? I've never really heard of the Qdeo Video Processing the 93 does.

also, about the player... Does it have slightly better build, more heft to it? i've heard... i plan on gettin this a t the end of the month

[CaptainCanuck]

does anyone see a difference in the SD DVD upconversion performance compared to the 83's ABT? I've never really heard of the Qdeo Video Processing the 93 does.

also, about the player... Does it have slightly better build, more heft to it? i've heard... i plan on gettin this a t the end of the month

Yeah that's the part i'm interested in as well. I buy oppos for upconversion. Any blu ray player can do a good job with blu rays.

[bouch24]

Based on Vudu's device compatibility page (http://www.vudu.com/setup_hdtv.html) and Oppo's comments on Facebook, it looks like Vudu is coming soon to the 93.

I haven't actually played a DVD on my 93 yet, but compared to the 83, the 93 is much quieter when spinning a disc. This makes a real difference in background noise when listening at lower volumes. It doesn't have much more heft than the 83 overall, but perhaps more in the right places?

[ObsoleteFuture]

really? cos i had read some reviews saying that Oppo has not only improved the specs, but also 'improved' build quality.. and ive heard some say on AVS that they think the 93 feels a bit more substantial, by how much? not sure

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OPPO Digital Inc’s timing for the announcement of the OPPO BDP-93 and OPPO BDP-95 was excellent

Quote:
“"with the exception of Existing Models, any Licensed Player manufactured after December 31, 2010 shall limit analog video outputs for Decrypted AACS Content to SD Interlace Modes only [composite video, s-video, 480i component video and 576i video]. Existing Models may be manufactured and sold by Adopter up until December 31, 2011."

AACS Adopter Agreement (see page 105)

The good thing about the OPPO BDP-93 and OPPO BDP-95 is the fact that those models were announced before January 1st 2011, so they are allowed to have 1080i quality over component video. Many new models of Blu-ray players coming out in 2011 limit video quality to SD quality over component video. All the new Panasonic Blu-ray player models for 2011 have no component video output jacks at all and even no 7.1 analog audio outputs.

OPPO Digital Inc will be able to sell a lot of Blu-ray players to those consumers that need 1080i over component video and 7.1 analog audio outputs. If one owns an old HD quality display without HDMI inputs that cost several thousands of dollars they might decide to purchase an OPPO Blu-ray player instead of upgrading their display. There are still consumers using high-end 9 inch CRT HD Front Projectors that they purchased for $30,000-$100,000+ back in the late 90’s and they may not want to upgrade to a display that offers HDMI input yet. There are several old HD displays that cost over $10,000 many years ago and for those people they may go with an OPPO Blu-ray player that outputs 1080I over component.

Since many consumer electronics companies are removing 7.1 analog outputs from their Blu-ray players in 2011 that is another advantage to purchasing an OPPO BDP-95 or OPPO BDP-93. Some people spent several thousands of dollars on A/V amplifiers with 5.1 or 7.1 analog inputs many years ago and are not ready to get a new HDMI A/V receiver with high-end DAC’s yet.

This year the consumers that need 1080i component video and 7.1 analog audio outputs will look to companies like OPPO Digital Inc to meet their needs. Personally I use HDMI for all my video and audio connections and do not need the analog connections.

All Blu-ray models that offer HD quality over component video will be going out of production on December 31st 2011

Quote:
“Existing Models may be manufactured and sold by Adopter up until December 31, 2011."

AACS Adopter Agreement (see page 105)

I have heard several times from people that OPPO Digital Inc keeps their players in production for around 18 months. That may have been true in the past but now every company including OPPO Digital according to the AACS Adopter Agreement will have to cancel production on any Blu-ray player that outputs 1080I over component video after December 31st 2011.

One way OPPO Digital Inc might be able to sell the OPPO BDP-93 and BDP-95 Blu-ray players well into the middle of 2012 is if they ramp of production between August to December 31st of 2011. If a company like OPPO Digital were to double or triple the production of their Blu-ray players like the OPPO BDP-93 and OPPO BDP-95 before the December 31st 2011 AACS rule then even though the Blu-ray player is going out of production on December 31st 2011, there could be enough OPPO BDP-93’s and OPPO BDP-95’s seating around in their warehouse for sell up until around July 2012. As consumers we will have to wait and see what really happens after December 31st 2011. There could be a shortage of OPPO players unless OPPO mass produces a large stock pile of the existing models before December 31st 2011.

The OPPO BDP-93 and OPPO BDP-95 will be the last OPPO Blu-ray players that offer 1080i HD quality over component video.

Then after December 31st 2013 all analog video outputs will be disabled or removed from any new Blu-ray player models announced in 2014.

quote:
"No Licensed Player that passes Decrypted AACS Content to analog video outputs may be manufactured or sold by Adopter after December 31, 2013."

AACS Adopter Agreement (see page 105)

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Important update: The E-SATA erasing bug mentioned below was fixed with firmware version 0323. Now with the latest firmware update one does not need to use a USB drive at all anymore and can experience the improved performance of an E-SATA hard drive. Since E-SATA drives offer faster transfer speeds compared to USB drives, I now recommend people start using E-SATA hard drives with the OPPO BDP-93 for increased speed. Also it appears the E-SATA handshaking speed when powering on the player has been improved.
http://forum.blu-ray.com/4563360-post807.html

E-SATA hard drive problem when using E-SATA as persistent storage (BD-LIVE)

I have already informed OPPO Digital Inc regarding this E-SATA drive issue. I am currently using the latest firmware version which is 0126. I have located a bug with the firmware and I am hoping that OPPO software engineers would right a software update to correct the problem sometime in the near future. All prior firmware versions have the same issue.

1. I finally found an E-SATA hard drive that is compatible with the OPPO BDP-93, prior brands I tried would not work. I formatted the 1TB hard drive as NTFS and the OPPO BDP-93 operating system saw the drive as a read only drive like it is suppose too. NTFS is read only on the OPPO BDP-93 due to limitations of the OPPO BDP-93 operating system. Which means NTFS file format cannot be used with BD-LIVE and persistent storage.

2. The bug details: I then formatted the 1TB E-SATA hard drive as FAT32 so that I could use the hard drive with BD-LIVE persistent storage. I was able to download several HD trailers and play them back with no problem while using the E-SATA drive with BD-LIVE. The bug is if one only has the E-SATA hard drive connected for BD-LIVE, one cannot erase the E-SATA drive. The E-SATA hard drive formatted for FAT32 is useless for me since I cannot erase it when using it for local BD-LIVE storage. The persistent storage menu only has an option for internal flash, and USB drive. No E-SATA hard drive erase option even though it works with persistent storage for writing and reading. The only way I was able to erase the E-SATA hard drive is to connect both a USB drive and E-SATA drive at the same time. If one connects both an E-SATA hard drive formatted as FAT32 and a USB drive formatted as FAT 32, then OPPO BDP-93 operating system will always select the E-SATA hard drive as the BD-LIVE persistent storage drive. Then when one tells the OPPO BDP-93 to erase the USB drive it will actually erase the E-SATA hard drive that is formatted as FAT32 as long as a USB drive is connected also. If a USB drive is not connected then the OPPO BDP-93 will not erase the E-SATA drive and give a message that there is no USB drive connected. This entire issue could be fixed if OPPO Digital would issue a firmware update that added an “E-SATA” menu selection to the persistent storage menu.

** I would recommended people stick with using a USB flash drive or USB hard drive with the OPPO BDP-93 when using the persistent storage feature with BD-LIVE, the current work around to erase the E-SATA drive is to connect both a USB and E-SATA drive at the same time. Maybe a future firmware update will fix this issue **

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Important update: The E-SATA erasing bug mentioned below was fixed with firmware version 0323. Now with the latest firmware update one does not need to use a USB drive at all anymore and can experience the improved performance of an E-SATA hard drive. Since E-SATA drives offer faster transfer speeds compared to USB drives, I now recommend people start using E-SATA hard drives with the OPPO BDP-93 for increased speed. Also it appears the E-SATA handshaking speed when powering on the player has been improved.
http://forum.blu-ray.com/4563360-post807.html

Two high-end E-SATA hard drives that have been verified to work with the OPPO BDP-93

(Plus additional details on how the OPPO BDP-93 works with external hard drives)

The OPPO BDP-93 was designed to have up to 3 hard drives connected to it at once. There are 2 USB 2.0 ports and 1 E-SATA II port on the OPPO BDP-93 Blu-ray player. The USB 2.0 port has a maximum theoretical speed of 480Mbps and the E-SATA II port has a maximum theoretical speed of 3Gbps. So if one wanted to they could connect up to 3 hard drives at once to the OPPO BDP-93.

The OPPO BDP-93 operating system is able to read and write FAT32 and FAT16 file formats (ExFAT is not supported). The OPPO BDP-93 is able to read the NTFS file format but is unable to write NTFS. So NTFS is read only on the OPPO BDP-93.

If one is interested in connecting an E-SATA or USB hard drive to play family movies, pictures, and music than one normally will format their hard drive as NTFS. NTFS will not work with persistent storage and BD-LIVE.

If one wants to use their E-SATA or USB hard drive for persistent storage and BD-LIVE then they need to format the hard drive using the FAT32 or FAT16 file format. FAT32 is a better file system compared to FAT16. The formatting utility built into Windows will not allow hard drives larger than 32GB to be formatted as FAT32. If one is using a hard drive larger then 32GB, they will need to download a third party format utility if they want their hard drive to be formatted as FAT32. There are free FAT32 format utilities that people can download that allow up to 2TB hard drives to be formatted as FAT32.

If the OPPO BDP-93 persistent storage menu selection is set for USB instead of internal, the OPPO BDP-93 will use either an E-SATA hard drive or USB hard drive for BD-LIVE persistent storage. For example if one formats 2 USB hard drives as FAT32, formats 1 E-SATA hard drive as FAT32, and then connects all 3 hard drives to the OPPO BDP-93 at once, then the following will happen. The OPPO BDP-93 operating system will always use the E-SATA hard drive formatted as FAT32 as persistent storage and the other two USB hard drives become media playback hard drives only.

Now if the E-SATA hard drive is formatted with NTFS file system and a connected USB hard drive or USB flash drive was formatted as FAT32 then the OPPO BDP-93 will always use the USB drive for BD-LIVE persistent storage. The E-SATA hard drive formatted as NTFS becomes a media playback only hard drive.

Currently there is a glitch in the OPPO BDP-93 operating system that prevents it from erasing an E-SATA hard drive formatted as FAT32 under the persistent storage menu. The current work around to allow one to erase the E-SATA hard drive is to connect a USB drive formatted as FAT16 or FAT32 at the same time. If one plans on using their hard drive for BD-LIVE persistent storage then they might want to use a USB hard drive or USB flash drive instead of a E-SATA hard drive since erasing the E-SATA drive requires a USB drive to also be connected.

Back on August 1st 2010 I made a list of a couple of extremely fast high-end USB flash drives and a USB hard drive that work with the OPPO BDP-83. I tested the same drives on the OPPO BDP-93 and they work perfectly fine.
http://forum.blu-ray.com/3568316-post562.html

The data transfer speed of a E-SATA hard drive on the OPPO BDP-93 is faster when compared to a USB hard drive, but currently the handshaking time when powering up the OPPO BDP-93 is slower for E-SATA compared to a USB hard drive (Hopefully a firmware update in the future will improve the speed of the player detecting a E-SATA hard drive attached). Right now it can take around 30 seconds for the OPPO BDP-93 to finish handshaking with an E-SATA drive. A USB hard drive or flash drive takes around 5 to 10 seconds to finish handshaking. USB flash drives and hard drives are hot swappable. An E-SATA drive requires one to turn off the OPPO BDP-93 before connecting an E-SATA drive since it is not hot swappable. For me I leave my 2TB E-SATA hard drive attached all the time to the OPPO BDP-93 and use it as one big BD-LIVE storage drive. The E-SATA interface was superfast at multitasking. I was able to download new BD-LIVE content very fast while playing existing downloaded 1080P/24 movie trailers at the same time.

When the OPPO BDP-93 Blu-ray player was turned off, I hit the eject button next to the disc tray which turned on the OPPO player and ejected the disc tray. As soon as the tray was ejected I inserted a Blu-ray disc and pressed close. The OPPO BDP-93 loading symbol appeared for 30 seconds and the loading process was placed on hold while the OPPO BDP-93 finished handshaking with the E-SATA drive. As soon as the E-SATA symbol flashed on the plasma screen in the upper right hand corner, the player then started to load the Blu-ray disc. So the good news is E-SATA hard drives do work with BD-LIVE 100% of the time but if one pops in a Blu-ray disc as soon as the OPPO BDP-93 player is powering on, the Blu-ray player will take an extra 30+ seconds before it starts to load the movie since it takes that long for the handshaking to occur with the E-SATA drive. If one turns on the Blu-ray player first and waits until the E-SATA handshaking is completed (which usually takes 30 seconds or more) then Blu-ray discs will load at normal speed or slightly faster with a E-SATA drive connected. When using a fast Verizon FIOS Internet connection I was getting amazing download speeds over E-SATA with some 1080P HD trailers taking less than 90 seconds to download. I was also several times watching 1080P HD trailers while new ones were being downloaded. A 50MB per second or 35 MB second Internet speed is ideal to take advantage of high-end E-SATA hard drives.

Two high-end E-SATA hard drives that have been verified to work with the OPPO BDP-93

1. High-end 2TB E-SATA hard drive for OPPO BDP-93 (Around $220 mail order price): I used a Thermaltake ST0021U E-SATA hard drive case (E-SATA interface is limited to 3Gbps maximum speed and there is also a USB 2.0 480Mbps interface on the hard drive enclosure). The Thermaltake E-SATA hard drive case is SATA III 6Gbps compatible and accepts hard drives up to 2TB. It has two built in fans with a blue LED light. The blue LED light for the fans can be turned off with a switch. The power LED light can be covered with a small piece of black electrical tape if one does not like the bright light. The hard drive enclosure requires one to have a spare power outlet and space behind the TV cabinet or inside the TV cabinet (Use a USB Flash drive instead if space is an issue and no spare power outlet is available). One small negative is the fans even though they are ultra-silent, they make enough noise to hear them if one is within 2 or 3 feet from the hard drive enclosure.

A. Here is the spec information for the Thermaltake ST0021U E-SATA hard drive enclosure that has a list price of $54.99.
http://www.thermaltakeusa.com/Store/Product.aspx?C=1023&SC=1055&ID=1483

Amazon price around $51.42 with free shipping
http://www.amazon.com/Thermaltake-Active-Cooling-Enclosure-ST0021U/dp/B004G8QETS/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1298434224&sr=8-1

B. For the hard drive I used a high-end Seagate 2TB 6Gbps 7,200 RPM hard drive. Model number ST32000641AS. List price $187.99. Barracuda® XT Data Sheet (1.907256 TB’s are useable on the OPPO BDP-93 for BD-LIVE when the drive is formatted as FAT32 using a third party formatting utility).

Amazon price currently $169.99 plus free shipping.
http://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Barracuda-7200RPM-Internal-ST32000641AS/dp/B002RWJHBM/ref=sr_1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1298435359&sr =1-1



2. High-end 1TB E-SATA hard drive for OPPO BDP-93 (Around $105 mail order price): I used a Thermaltake ST0016U Silver River II E-SATA hard drive case (E-SATA interface is limited to 3Gbps maximum speed and there is also a USB 2.0 480Mbps interface on the hard drive enclosure). This case uses no fans so it is low noise. A small piece of black electrical tape can be used to cover up the power LED light. The hard drive enclosure requires one to have a spare power outlet and space behind the TV cabinet or inside the TV cabinet (Use a USB Flash drive instead if space is an issue and no spare power outlet is available).

A. Here is the spec information for the Thermaltake ST0016U Silver River II E-SATA hard drive case that has a list price of $38.99.
http://www.thermaltakeusa.com/Product.aspx?C=1287&ID=1941

Amazon price currently $34.99 with free shipping.
http://www.amazon.com/Thermaltake-Aluminum-3-5-Inch-Enclosure-ST0016U/dp/B00375YV1E/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1298436357&sr =1-1

B. For the hard drive I used a Seagate 1TB 6Gbps 7,200 RPM hard drive. Model number ST31000524AS. List price $71.99.
Barracuda 7200.12 Data Sheet

Amazon price currently $70.99 with free shipping.
http://www.amazon.com/1TB-7200-Rpm-3...8436464&sr=1-1

[Jables]

A 50MB per second or 35 MB second Internet speed is ideal to take advantage of high-end E-SATA hard drives.

Your internet is not that fast. It is 35 Mb or 50 Mb. You have to divide that total by 8 to get it in MB. That puts it at 4.375 MB/s - 6.25 MB/s, which is about what a typical USB flash drive gets. For the record, a USB hard drive will typically sustain about 25-35 MB/s transfer rates; the fastest USB flash drives (Patriot, usually) will usually be just under 20 MB/s.

I don't understand your obsession with eSATA and the Oppo. It's totally pointless. USB 2.0's max speed is 480 Mb/s, which is ~10 times the max bitrate for Blu-ray. In practice, you can only pull about 220 Mb/s with a USB hard drive, which is still 4-5X any bitrate you'll encounter.

You can get an external 2 TB USB hard drive for about $85, which is $100 less than what you're spending FOR ABSOLUTELY NO GAIN. In fact, you get less, since there's still issues with the implementation.

Best yet, you can get a 2.5" external drive, which is nearly silent and doesn't need external power.

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Your internet is not that fast. It is 35 Mb or 50 Mb. You have to divide that total by 8 to get it in MB. That puts it at 4.375 MB/s - 6.25 MB/s, which is about what a typical USB flash drive gets. For the record, a USB hard drive will typically sustain about 25-35 MB/s transfer rates; the fastest USB flash drives (Patriot, usually) will usually be just under 20 MB/s.

I don't understand your obsession with eSATA and the Oppo. It's totally pointless. USB 2.0's max speed is 480 Mb/s, which is ~10 times the max bitrate for Blu-ray. In practice, you can only pull about 220 Mb/s with a USB hard drive, which is still 4-5X any bitrate you'll encounter.

You can get an external 2 TB USB hard drive for about $85, which is $100 less than what you're spending FOR ABSOLUTELY NO GAIN. In fact, you get less, since there's still issues with the implementation.

Best yet, you can get a 2.5" external drive, which is nearly silent and doesn't need external power.

People with speed testing software are measuring around 50 MB per second download on Verizon FIOS. People that have the 35MB per second plan from Verizon FIOS are actually getting around 43MB per second download when using a speed test server. So Verizon is delivering the actual speed and some times more than what a customer is paying for. The slowest part is some of the BD-LIVE studio servers which might not be able to keep up with 50MB or 43MB per second download speed.

The OPPO BDP-93 and BDP-83 requires the hard drive to use external power when connected to the USB port. The OPPO BDP-93 also requires external power when using the E-SATA port. So that is why I had to use a 3.5 inch hard drive instead of a 2.5 inch hard drive. Also the reason for the higher priced 2TB hard drive is so I can get 7,200 RPM rotation speed with 64 MB cache (600 MB/s transfer rate, 138 MB/s sustained transfer rate). While downloading several HD 1080P trailers from BD-LIVE I can watch existing 1080P trailers without taking away from my download speed. Basically I am multi-tasking with the hard drive and the extra sustained transfer rate is ideal for fast performance.

One of the reasons the E-SATA II port is located on the OPPO BDP-93 is because it is a faster interface that is rated at 3Gbps (The other reason is in case the consumer only owns an E-SATA hard drive instead of a USB 2.0 hard drive, OPPO offers the consumer more choices). I understand that the 3Gbps for E-SATA II and 480Mbps for USB 2.0 are the maximum theoretical speed of the interfaces themselves and not the internal drive itself. The main point is E-SATA is a faster interface and when purchasing a new drive, some hard drives and flash memory will have better real world transfer speed over an E-SATA port instead of USB (For example the Kanguro E-Flash 32GB and 64GB drive has 90MB per second read speed and 50MB per second write speed when using E-SATA. But when the USB 2.0 port is used the exact same drive only has 33MB per second read speed and 30MB per second write speed). OPPO Digital Inc placed the E-SATA interface on both the BDP-93 and BDP-95 and for the amount of money consumers pay for the Blu-ray player they should be able to use the E-SATA port and expect the firmware to work correctly when erasing the hard drive for BD-LIVE.

[chris gerhard]

I "inherited" a home theater setup that had a Pioneer Elite DV-05. I know little to nothing about equipment but do want to upgrade the system to Blu-ray capability. I am looking to add the new Oppo BDP-93 and a JVC HD950 projector. My uncle had quite a few DVDs of which some are quite old.

Do I replace the Pioneer DV-05, which is THX listed, and use the new Oppo for all DVDs regardless if they're Blu-ray or old or do I use both players the DV-05 for old DVDs and the Oppo for all Blu-ray?

Any direction you can provide is most appreciated and thanks

M

I will recommend the Oppo BDP-93 for everything, instead of the Pioneer DV-05. Here is an old Secrets of Home Theater and High Fidelity review of the Pioneer DV-05.

http://www.hometheaterhifi.com/volum...r-11-2000.html

Here is a recent review of the Oppo BDP-93.

http://www.hometheaterhifi.com/unive...rformance.html