My 2 cents,
With lots of thought and research, I went with Oppo 105 for my dedicated HT/listening room and Oppo 93 for my living room. Oppo does lots of things for me and absolutely love these players. Since I got both of them in US at USD price and hand carried them with me , with out paying duties
, I think they are amazing value for me.
Here are the main advantages they offer for me.
1. It does all the network related playback that I needed. I use PLEX and Twonky Beam to stream music and video from my computer and android mobile to my Oppos.
2. It plays any kind of disc you put in. The biggest advantage is it plays VCD and I have lots of my kid's rhymes and other kids stuff still on VCD
. It reminds me of the old Onida DVD player ad where it plays even a "roti" when you put in :lol:
3. Oppo 105 has 2 HDMI in and it seems like they added these two inputs "just for me". Because I wanted Oppo - 105 to receive the HDMI video input from my DTH and play it from the Projector connected to Oppo. Also I wanted to watch the videos from my mobile in my Projector so the second MHL enabled HDMI input just does that for me.
4. Oppo 105 has a great DAC inbuilt and I don't need to invest in any other DAC and I get an all in one solution. And I leverage this DAC for all my music play back. Be it from CD/DVD-A/FLAC/Online Radio.
5. Though I don't play musing through USB, Oppo 105 has the USB input if I wish to play music through USB later.
6. The picture quality these players offer is just amazing. I can clearly see my VCDs and DVDs play in better quality than played from a regular Sony DVD-P.
7. Oppo - 105 has a built in pre-amp and digital volume control. I am now using Oppo - 105 directly connected to my power amp. And it sounds very good for stereo. For HT, I use the HDMI connection to my AVR.
8. Oppo 105 has an inbuilt head phone amp and I never used it yet
.
Thanks,
John.