I like the idea of supporting a company like Oppo, and in theory I would love a single-player solution.
After having re-done my whole rack yesterday, I have 5 disc players in there (Luckily, they look harmonious with each other!!). While any of them will, for instance, play a Redbook CD, and almost all of them will play a standard DVD, they each have an attribute that others
don't have:
- The Panasonic 35 Blu-Ray player is the only one to play Blu-Ray.
- The Toshiba HD-DVD player is the only one to play (you guessed it!!) HD-DVDs.
- My Oppo is the only one to play SACD and DVD-A discs.
- There's a CD recorder for when I transfer LPs or want the audio from an on-air concert.
- I just added a DVD recorder that I wasn't using anymore in my video editing so I could offload TiVO stuff that I want to archive.
Now, if anyone would make a player that would do all these things, I'm THERE...well, not really. I couldn't afford it!
