My Oppo has the blues
My 83 has started behaving a bit strangely. With BD discs (so far, doesn't affect DVD, DVD-A, SACD), the player seems to get "stuck" randomly. It doesn't freeze (I've experienced "freezing discs" on my HD DVD player enough to know the difference) but rather sticks then resumes by itself after about 1 sec.--doesn't skip forward or lose audio. The first couple of times I thought the player was having trouble with layer changes, but it can happen at any time (4 mins in or 60 mins in or anywhere, really). I did the factory reset and cleared the persistent memory (first time it's been done), as suggested on various sites when I did a search this morning. One thing I have noticed--if I rewind to a point prior to the unprovoked pause, it won't reproduce the problem at the same point (so I don't think the discs are the problem--almost all of them were freshly unwrapped and never before played).
Has anyone else ever had this problem? I realize the machine is not new, but I have significantly older disc players that have no issues. I'm out of ideas.
Theoretical question: is it possible (assuming my cleaning the lens doesn't work--and this applies to any BD player, I guess) for a BD player's blue laser to fail (thus leading to my current problem with BDs, and worse down the line) while its red laser remains functional considerably longer? If that is the case (if a problem with the blue laser does not automatically lead to a problem with the red one), then my BDP-83 becomes a pretty decent DVD/DVD-A/SACD/CD player and I need only add a BD player to the system to supplement it (and that BD player need not be an Oppo--don't see the need to spend a lot on a BD player now when, in a couple of years, I'll likely make the move to UHD).
Of course, this speculation on my part is moot if I've woefully misunderstood how the player's innards actually work. I won't take it personally if I've asked a stupid question.
Has anyone else ever had this problem? I realize the machine is not new, but I have significantly older disc players that have no issues. I'm out of ideas.
Theoretical question: is it possible (assuming my cleaning the lens doesn't work--and this applies to any BD player, I guess) for a BD player's blue laser to fail (thus leading to my current problem with BDs, and worse down the line) while its red laser remains functional considerably longer? If that is the case (if a problem with the blue laser does not automatically lead to a problem with the red one), then my BDP-83 becomes a pretty decent DVD/DVD-A/SACD/CD player and I need only add a BD player to the system to supplement it (and that BD player need not be an Oppo--don't see the need to spend a lot on a BD player now when, in a couple of years, I'll likely make the move to UHD).
Of course, this speculation on my part is moot if I've woefully misunderstood how the player's innards actually work. I won't take it personally if I've asked a stupid question.
). If it doesn't work, I will keep it for DVDs and hi-res audio discs (the player was free to me and I spent a bit on a hardware mod to make it region-free, but not very much), as I've since learned my supposition is correct. Even if the blue laser is conked out, it can use its red laser for all the other media for years to come. Meanwhile, region-free BD players are now available for not too much money (a lot less than another Oppo plus mod), so if I need one, I'll pick one up. In the meantime, I have an inexpensive Sony player that I normally use at work (no BD players in our classrooms and I show a lot of movie excerpts--and the occasional full feature--in my classes) hooked up. For BDs it's fine (just can't play my European ones at the moment).
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