I will say this one time here even though this is Audioholics. More people care about special features than they do about high resolution/lossless audio.
If you say so. I honestly wouldn't know. In fact, I didn't know that most any person even cared about
anything in terms of high quality AV.
Doby and Josten, $220 may be a cheap player to you. However, to many of us used to $50 DVD players, it's still a LOT of money for a player that can't even access all of the special features of a disc. Every DVD player ever made can play all of the special DVD features including multiple angles, etc. Blu-Ray can't say the same thing. You have to admit the profile thing was a major screw-up.
Like I said, I wouldn't know.
I have yet to play a single extra feature. Not one single extra. Nothing. I believe I've mentioned here before that some friends have encouraged me to watch the "making of" extras in Surf's Up. I can't get myself to do it, and hence I don't know any better.
I wouldn't know that the profile thing was a screw up. If profile 2.0 never existed, I would never notice. Honestly. Just me. So . . . I don't think I have to admit anything. OTOH, I am not refuting your statement that everyone else might feel differently.
$220 is a lot for a lot of people. But this is... just .... one.... argument.... that gets repeated too many times. For every $1,000 I spent on this hobby, I can show you other thousand dollar purchases by others who spend next to nothing on AV. Different strokes.
I didn't have this much disposable income until rather recently. For the poorer, one might consider other hobbies. Other hobbies I took up with zeal when I had considerably less money were basketball, reading, and chess. Most singular AV purchases could fund those three hobbies simultaneously for a year. Easy.
I didn't have a TV to speak of about 26 months ago. Was like that for close to a year. I used Radio Shack bookshelves for the better part of two decades. I didn't even have a pre-amp, but used the variable gain on the cdp to change the volume on my Kenwood amp. The cdp was a floor model, even older than the speakers, I got from Good Guys I think. Maybe. I used a knife to pry open the drawer immediately after hitting "open" when that started to fail.
Im not telling people they have to blow $220. I am just saying if you are going to blow $220 on a DVD player, why not spend it on the BDP instead. Catch my drift?
Now, if you ARE talking about audioholics.... I just don't see why someone would opt for an Oppo 983 when a Sony Ps3 is roughly the same price. Maybe give a tiny bit up in upconverting, but getting so much more to boot.
cheers.
