"Those who already own a BDP-83 purchased before Nov. 9 of this year can ship it to Oppo together with $299 and have the Special Edition upgrade installed. It will consist of replacing the Audio Board, Power Supply Board and the Back Panel with a RS232 port. The front panel is left untouched. This upgrade is only available to customers within the U.S. and payment must be made in advance. The unit’s warranty will be extended by resetting the clock; in other words the warranty starts all over again. You place an order for your upgrade at the Oppo site, and you then receive an email with an RMA number and instructions for sending in your BDP-83."
I'd love to get one of these.
AFAIK that offer expired on 31 December 2009 unless Oppo extended it. I will have to double check as I was considering it and then realized I missed out.
