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DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantStar Contributordee1959jay
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The Audioholics website has exposed the luxury brand Lexicon for releasing a blu-ray player which turns out to be just the standard Oppo BDP-83, chassis and all, shoved inside an aluminium Lexicon wrapper - and then charging $3500 for it instead of Oppo's $500. While Lexicon claims to have made improvements, there is no evidence to support that claim at all. Quite the contrary: while Oppo provides updates to its firmware on a regular basis, there are no updates for the Lexicon. And while Oppo sells a Special Edition of its player with upgraded D/A conversion for $899, Lexicon could not be bothered to at least stick that one inside their case. Which is why some are now referring to the brand as LexiCON.

So if any of you have $3000 to spare for a nice aluminium case on an Oppo with outdated firmware, you know where to go...     
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I have never been a fan of Lexicon and I have used some of their products but WOW; that is one of the most amusing articles I've ever read!!!

I don't know that LexiCON actually broke any laws by definition but according to the article they have certainly, misrepresented their product. If so, LexiCON deserves to loose it all for this.

Interesting about THX as well.
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I'm still interested in how they got that player to be THX certified. Because the oppo did fail THX requirements and since it's the same player.. THX commented that they tested the Lexicon player extensively.. Maybe the test consisted of checking if Lexicons cheque cleared
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Maybe the test consisted of checking if Lexicons cheque cleared


That's definitely my vote. There are some articles taking THX to task on this, too, as they should.
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Because the oppo did fail THX requirements

It did? I was under the impression they simply hadn't submitted it for certification.

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I think they did break some false advertising laws, but companies are given a lot of leeway on those thanks to free speech. They said it had unparalleled performance when the Oppo parallels it quite nicely.
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Because the oppo did fail THX requirements

It did? I was under the impression they simply hadn't submitted it for certification.

KM


Both OUGHT to have failed on audio, but Oppo did not submit its player. As far as video is concerned: nobody knows what the THX standards are, so who knows? Makes the THX certification meaningless anyway.
BTW all references to THX certification seem to have been pulled now. I wonder why...

@ Dan:
Glad you liked the story. Personally I found this shot the best of them all, as it shows what an amateurish job they did when they threw the Oppo inside their case.   

What WERE they thinking?
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