I saw a post at AVS last month that Oppo will soon be launching a new player, the 983. I will paraphrase what I read: It's apparently a 980 with big improvements. It uses the ABT 102 deinterlacing chip and ABT 1010 scaling engine. The ABT is a cadence chipset so there will be no macroblock enhancement errors (as are occasionally seen with the Faroudja chipset). If coded properly by Oppo, everything will be appropriately de-interlaced and scaled with no aliasing and interlacing errors . Expected to sell for $300-349. Of course, these features only hint at its video performance, but Oppo players, especially the 970, are also highly regarded for their SACD and DVD-A playback.
John
