Any new reviews on the Oppo 983?

At $400 you're getting into Blu-ray territory. Just a thought.

But most Bluray player suck at upscaling regular DVD's.. so if you have a large regular DVD collection this is a great product, plus bluray players won't plus divx and other formats, nor will they support playing media off USB devices... the Oppo provides lots of flexibility.

The Oppo 983 represents a new market niche that Toshiba intends to exploit as well--getting the most out of std. def DVDS while we wait to see what happens to Blu-ray.

After all, there are about 50,000 titles in DVD and 400 in Blu-ray. How long will it be before we get Blu-ray Live 2.0? How long until Universal, Paramount, and Warner put out Blu-ray versions of established HD DVD titles? How long until pre-2005 films start showing up on Blu-ray? How long until we see an affordable Blu-ray player that is a really good Red Book player, does HDCD, SACD, and DVD-A (which won't come from Sony)? Maybe never?

In the meantime, you can have all of that now with the Oppo 983, except for Blu-ray playback.

JOHNNYB53,

I don't think it has been said any better than that...I just joined the Oppo team and cant wait till I receive it...

How has the 983 been performing for those of you that got one already, and how is it's picture quality compared to the 981?