All Quiet on the Oppo front?

I have found with a direct inquiry straight to service@OPPO gave very rapid replies.
3 times over last 3 days I have emailed and reply varied from 30 minutes to 2 hours.

Thanks for the heads up that your contact is made with service. Never thought to call them— not being an owner. I love sharper minds; would love to trade up!

I have to agree that I thought their speel on in-house manufactured parts was a little hokey.
Pretty sure vast majority of internal parts would be sourced from sub contractors.

There maybe a few in-house parts though and possibly that is what put the kibosh and making more.

However we have their "official line " now so it is what it is.

Btw my last email to them I made it clear I was sharing this information on Audiogon forums so I very much doubt it is not correct or info that they do not want public.

Our 205 is of great interest to us- but- let’s not overlook that in the 2nd “quarter” of 2018 Oppo shipped over 28 “million” smartphones.  As in some other audio specialty companies; the money is elsewhere. 

If I should get the email that my 205 is ready to be shipped, I will probably decline it.  I won’t be using it for anything more than Blu-Ray and since my Samsung 55 inch TV isn’t 4K,  it’s overkill.   I won’t be using the dac as I already have an Uber expensive Esoteric and a McIntosh SACD players.  I also have a built in dac on my McIntosh preamp.   

Thinking about out all this, it doesn’t seem to be won’t dropping $1300 plus shipping on it.