OPPO Digital

Logo of OPPO Digital

OPPO Digital (Chinese: OPPO影音)[1] is an independently operated overseas division sharing the brand name OPPO with OPPO Electronics, both owned by Chinese company BBK Electronics.[2][3] Founded in 2004, it is based in Menlo Park, California, United States.[4] OPPO Digital designs and markets audio and video equipment, including Blu-ray Disc players and personal audio products such as headphones and headphone amplifiers, mainly targeting markets in Mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, USA, Europe, Australia, New Zealand and India.

Recognition

After entering the personal audio market in 2014, PM-1 headphones[5] and HA-2 portable headphone amplifier/DAC have both received prestigious EISA "Best Product" awards.[6]

History

DVD Players

  1. OPDV971H: OPPO Digital’s first upscaling DVD player released at the end of 2004. Its main selling points are the Faroudja video processor, DVI output, and DVD-Audio playback. It received the Best Product of 2005 award from Secrets of Home Theater and High Fidelity.
  2. DV-970HD: Released in mid-2006, OPPO Digital’s second DVD player added support for SACD playback and traded the OPDV971H’s DVI video output for an HDMI output. Originally released as a lower cost video disc player than the OPDV971H. It received the 2006 Product of the Year award from The Absolute Sound magazine.[7]
  3. DV-981HD: Released at the end of 2006, OPPO Digital’s third DVD player improved upon the previous model. With the enhanced Faroudja video processor, the DV-981HD supported up-converting DVD to 1080p resolution. It received a Product of the Year award from The Absolute Sound for 2007.[8]
  4. DV-980H: Released in mid-2007, the DV-980h was an update to the DV-970HD.
  5. DV-983H: Released in the beginning of 2008, the DV-983H would be the last DVD player OPPO Digital would release before moving on to Blu-ray. Due to the successful application in this player, the Anchor Bay VRS technology was later applied to OPPO’s BDP-83 Blu-ray Disc player.

Universal Blu-ray Disc Players

After waiting to see how the HD-DVD and Blu-ray Disc format war would play out, OPPO Digital released its first universal Blu-ray disc player in 2008.

Personal Audio Products

In 2014, OPPO Digital entered the Personal Audio market with the release of the OPPO PM-1 Planar Magnetic Headphones and OPPO HA-1 Headphone Amplifier and DAC.

External links

References

  1. "OPPO影音中国". OPPO Digital China (in Chinese). Retrieved 7 January 2016.
  2. Colin, David (July 7, 2005). "A Winning Digital DVD Player". Projector Central. So who is Oppo? They certainly are not a household name and with good reason as Oppo is a newly created North American branch of BBK Electronics of China, a giant in the manufacture of consumer electronics, employing 12,000 people worldwide. So while Oppo is a new name, the company and the technology behind it are quite substantial.
  3. Beamish, David. "Review: OPPO Digital DV-971H (US - DVD)". dvdactive. OPPO Digital are based in Mountain View, CA and are the US arm of BBK Electronics who are a huge Chinese market leader and who have been a private label OEM for companies such as Denon, NEC and BOSE. Manufacturing all sorts of electronics gear, BBK Electronics is a market leader in China and looking to expand globally hence the creation of their North American arm – OPPO Digital.
  4. "About us". OPPO Digital USA. Retrieved 7 January 2016.
  5. https://www.eisa.eu/awards/hi-fi/history/2014-2015.html
  6. https://www.eisa.eu/awards/hi-fi/3/european-usb-dacheadphone-amplifier-2015-2016.html
  7. http://business.highbeam.com/436102/article-1G1-156160779/oppo-wins-product-year-yet-again-oppo-digital-dv970hd
  8. http://www.marketwired.com/press-release/oppo-dv-981hd-named-product-of-the-year-award-by-the-absolute-sound-796787.htm
  9. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2385751,00.asp
  10. http://www.audioholics.com/product-awards/2011-audioholics-poy
  11. https://www.eisa.eu/awards/home-theatre-audio/history/2013-2014.html
  12. http://www.theabsolutesound.com/articles/oppo-bdp-105-universal-blu-ray-player-and-dac/
  13. https://www.eisa.eu/awards/hi-fi/history/2014-2015.html
  14. http://www.innerfidelity.com/content/innerfidelitys-wall-fame-full-size-open#z8mCDKQKy7y6pFiz.97
  15. http://everythingaudionetwork.blogspot.com/2014/12/2014-awards-ean-announces-products-of.html
  16. http://www.innerfidelity.com/content/innerfidelitys-wall-fame-full-size-open#z8mCDKQKy7y6pFiz.97
  17. http://thewirecutter.com/reviews/best-400-over-ear-headphones/
  18. http://www.innerfidelity.com/content/oppo-pm-3-competent-comfortable-mobile-headphone#JI9V6RJq4y3woDWS.97
  19. https://www.eisa.eu/awards/hi-fi/3/european-usb-dacheadphone-amplifier-2015-2016.html#award
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