It's hard to give you advice yet, seeing as we don't know exactly what performance improvements have been made to the OPPO. I'm curious myself. Better load times are always welcome. All I can say is I'm happy with the PS3 as a Blu-ray player, even though I do use my BDP-83 on most occasions. You can't really go wrong with it unless the aesthetics bother you or the Bluetooth control is going to be an issue.