OPPO vs BR HD?

I agree. You'll always have a use for a universal player and the anti is low. In the next 12 to 18 months there'll be more and better HD alternatives that work with hi rez sampling rates. All the pieces are there, we just need some company to put it all together.

Dave

I meant the best SD picture possible.

Tiger, what's the music format you're talking about?

A lot of people are grapping the Toshiba HD-DVD players just for the upconvert capability of these units for their SD DVD collections. They are suppose to be much better than the Blu-ray players in that regard.

With the price begin at lower than $99, which is much cheaper than the Oppo, how can you go wrong? Unless the Oppo's upconvert capability is MUCH better than what the HD DVD players can do, but I doubt it.

I bet on the Blu-ray and start buying blu-ray disc at a very good price since last Nov. even though I am not going to buy a blu-ray player until summer. I did buy a Toshiba A30 last week for my 200+ SD DVD collections.

I have both a Toshiba HD-D2 and an Oppo DV-980H. For upconverting via HDMI, they're pretty equal, with *maybe* an edge going to the Toshiba. The Toshiba also manages to sound really good via the Toslink (go figure). But the sound of the Oppo still trumps it--cleaner, more involving, more dynamic, and it decodes HDCD (noticeable improvement over std. redbook), and plays DVD-A and SACD. The Oppo is a little sound monster and it will take years (if ever) before a Blu-ray machine incorporates the music-playing capabilities of the Oppo at anywhere near the price.