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Resale value will go up in theory.

Seems like they are taking the service side seriously. I'm wondering if there was one critical part (maybe the transport) that they couldn't source any more...

I took a chance and bought a UDP-203 yesterday. When I picked it up the store had maybe a dozen stacked up beside the counter, and that was just for people who were picking one up that morning !

OK, so given a choice between working outside in the freezing rain getting ready for Boomershoot (we head out tomorrow morning) or playing with the new Oppo a bit I chose the latter.

First surprise - motion-activated lighting on the remote. Dang !

I haven't changed the audio hookup (still coax to AVR) or the video hookup (still HDMI to 720p Sanyo projector) so wasn't expecting to see much in the way of different performance yet, however...

1. I do think the picture looks a bit better than the old Sony, so maybe downscaling is improved, but it could be placebo effect

2. Modern players are fast - the old Sony could take several minutes loading newer BD's, although Sony deserves a lot of credit for keeping the firmware upgrades going long enough to even run them at all

The main reason for upgrading was to get 7.1 audio and support for newer audio formats (not Atmos though, that still needs newer AVR) so that is all still to come. It will have to wait until we get back from Idaho though.

I do have to say that the one thing still surprising me is how good a 720p projector can look. That said, I'm sitting ~13 feet from a ~97" diagonal screen so AFAIK that is only 1080p territory anyways.

If there is anyone that might be interested in an Oppo BDP105 with an external Darbee VP, let me know.

I wonder why the Oppo name or brand was not sold on the open market. Surely something they had was worth selling.

AFAIK the company is still active; they just see the high end disk player business as being more or less "done" and are focusing on phones.

Oppo smartphones

720p is good if the video recording is good. Our main TV is still 720 and I see no reason to change it.
It erks me that the commercials are better image and sq than the content but so be it.
1080p on the PJ and no going back. If I had a better bluray player maybe the image would be better yet again...

My son uses a 720 plasma and sits about 5 feet from it and has zero complaints. My 1080p plasma in the bedroom looks absolutely fantastic to my eyes and no LED can match it for watching hockey. I have a LED for movies that is 4k and really unless you sit really close there is no real improvement. I have not made the jump to HDR and i doubt i will ,its like buying $10g speakers the difference just doesnt justify the price tag. I find that many new tv's look fake or artificial,maybe i am just too old school. Unless i win a lotto so i can have a PJ i dont see anymore tv,s in my future. If your feeding your tv or pj with hdmi then it is doing the upscaling and a more expensive BD player will not make any difference to your picture.