BDP-83 beta firmware bug

[Affejunge]

Just to save any of you if you are thinking of upgrading to the new beta firmware, it breaks the aspect ratio control for upscaling mkv or other media content. This is confirmed by Oppo.

I talk about it on my blog, but here is the response from Oppo:

This is a known bug with the new Beta Firmware. The only solution is set the Primary Output to COMPONENT. This will force the decoder to do all aspect ratio control (which will be correct) rather than the ABT (which will be incorrect).

You will want to change the Primary Output to HDMI whenever playing DVDs, however, as the decoder will not do as good of a job de-interlacing and scaling as the ABT solution.

Best Regards,

Customer Service

Time to roll back to the previous beta.

 

[j_garcia]

FYI, Time Bandits BD had a decoding error as well. It played in a small box in the left hand corner. I sent an email to Oppo about this. It played fine in the PS3.