OPPO vs BR HD?

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.

Johnnyb53,
Thats exactly my thinking. Still a very very good picture with MUCH better sound capabilities. Seems the logical choice at this point for me..

My seating area is 12 feet back. I think a nice 780p/1080i upconverting player is the way to go.

Interesting comparison post Johnyb53--

Thanks