I'm not familiar with the 980 but in general Oppo products are highly regarded here and a number of board members own them.

I think most of their reputation comes from the video quality on a couple of models (971, 981 ?) but I haven't heard anything really negative about any of them.

Well, the remote control is kind of ugly to look at

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