Oppo Ceasing production

@paulf3rd.
+1!

Definitely sad news!  Fantastic company making up to date, attractive, reliable  products, and offering top notch service.

Regarding some wondering there's more to the story, I think it's dead simple.   A viable / sustainable business keeps going, and those that aren't drop out.

Saw a post on this site from Michael Green a few days ago.  He mentioned the high-end slowing down in a big way, and having something close to 625 dealers in his network in the 90s.  That REALLY stopped me in my tracks.   I can't even imagine 200 high-end audio dealers existing today across all the brands.

Seems like the old adage of the way to make a small fortune in this business is to start with a large one has never rung more true

I agree with falconquest that physical media will survive, but it will become a thin market for new releases. As we all know there is a time period where no LPs were manufactured for most artists because the market was insufficient to support recording companies pressing vinyl and CD. The same will happen to Redbook; eventually we will have to download newly released music. My 17 year olds collect vinyl; they have one of my previous systems in their room. Their friends come over to our house sometimes to listen to music. They think it's cool that music is always playing at our house and that it sounds great...but, they also have never seen it happen anywhere else. FWIW these kids are buying video game soundtracks on vinyl and that might be where their generation decides to invest its audio dollars--they believe in headphones!      

I've been meaning to buy a 105 for over 2 years, so this prompted me to order a 205 from Amazon.  Looking forward to listening to my SACDs and DADs again.  The headphone jack looks good too.  We'll see how it stacks up to my EAR Acute sonically.  And I did need a new DVD player as well.  

Watch the movie “Idiocracy” and ask yourself just how different the society in the movie is from our prsent one.  You will have your answer as to why a company that builds high-quality, fine equipment has a hard time staying in business.