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My new Oppo DV-981HD locked up on me last night

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It's only three days old. I watched about 4 movies. Was watching my copy of Jurassic Park III last night and it locked towards the end of the movie. I cleaned the disk and it played ok then.

This is not encouraging. This was my disk and it looked pretty clean to me. I'm a big netflix guy - I'm wondering if the Oppo's have trouble with dirty disks?

Any comments from Oppo owners out there? I bought this for it's upsampling abilities and good PQ. The day I bought it I went to Costco and saw a HD-DVD for the same exact price I paid for this. I hear they have great upsampling as well. Now I'm wondering if I should send the Oppo back...

All comments welcome.

-M

Follow Ups:

RE: My new Oppo DV-981HD locked up on me last night - 4season 09:21:33 05/28/07 (2)
An *occasional* lockup with one of these more advanced players is probably nothing to be concerned about. My Toshiba HD player locked up solid on me last night, and I actually had to unplug it before it would respond again. Darned things actually do seem to have an operating system and real computing power, and once in awhile, they crash.

Years ago, my first DVD player was a DVD-ROM drive + MPEG decoder card in a Windows PC, and every so often I'd get the Blue Screen of Death while watching a movie, and simply rebooting wouldn't fix it: I had to fully power it down for a few seconds.
- I think that player has no business advertising itself as HD anything. - Duilawyer 17:45:50 05/31/07 (1)
  If it does not play HD discs, and it does not, that nomenclature is misleading. I know, it upsamples to faux HD.
  - Adding to the confusion. - Jack G 05:54:36 06/01/07 (0)
    Upscaling players are calling themselves HD, and many sales boobs in big box stores, are selling them as HD. Its BS, and its no wonder many people seem confused.
    Jack
Contact Oppo - Jack G 06:20:03 05/28/07 (0)
They have good customer service-see what they say. They'll probably just replae it for you.
jack

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