Is OPPO worth the inflated price?

Oppo Repair Service NYC/Long Island?

When it became clear that decoder boards were unavailable to repair my Cambridge 650BD player I purchased a used Oppo 95. The ad said it works fine and should arrive next week. I got the 95 because I presently need analog video connectivity until upgrading to OLED TV or better (otherwise I'd have jumped on the 105 and its neat headphone amp for monitoring movie sound quality). Oppo Support has no phone but said via email that they still service all Oppo BD players. Presumably therefore all of the most failure prone parts are still available.

 

But when repairs are needed rather than shipping to Menlo Park might there be authorized Oppo or otherwise highly experienced service companies in the New York metro area or Long Island? Ideally, they will also be knowledgeable and aggressive enough to quickly troubleshoot circuit faults to the (non-proprietary) component circuit level-which CA's outsourced factory service https://www.panurgyoem.com/ was apparently unwilling or unable to do with the now discontinued decoder boards they said killed my player.

And thanks to Panurgy and Cambridge I also ended up initially wasting very serious money on a new transport mechanism which obviously didn't need replacing on this brick.

https://www.google.com/search?source=hp&ei=K3b5XJvLFOeyggfw75ugCw&q=panurgy+oem&oq=panurgey+&gs_l=psy-ab.1.0.0i13l7j0i13i30l3.2173.6041..7757...2.0..0.116.824.12j1......0....1..gws-wiz.....0..0i131j0j0i10.twEWogap-sk#lrd=0x89c3097c4ac5fc35:0xee6485492353ef8a,1

Of course, I'll ship the 95 to Oppo if that's clearly the best move though it’s nice to have more local but very reliable options.

And please share any feedback and experience about Oppo US Service Support.

Oppo currently provides communication via email only (unless it changed recently which I doubt).  So if you have questions, there is a need to detail the problem and send them an email.  As noted earlier, I have an Oppo 203 that sees little use.  Considered selling it (and wouldn't ask what some are insanely asking and I don't think the players are worth it at the insane end of pricing - maybe a little premium).  Mine is just used for video in a spare HT with a UHD TV.  I hope to get a slightly bigger TV within the next several months and the 203 will be moved (along with the 55 inch UHD set to an upstairs bonus room which is basically a guest room).

 I contacted Oppo Service hoping to acquire a replacement LASER sled in advance of a failure. They said "no". I hope the Oppo will last more than five years as this is when service will cease.

I have both a BDP-83, a UDP-203 and a pair of PM-2 headphones. After 7 years the tray on the BDP-83 got stuck and wouldn't retract. I contacted Oppo (by email) and they had me ship it back, at my expense, but they then replaced the tray mechanism and shipped it back for free. Who does that after seven years and for free! This was when they were still in the business and why I was bummed when they quit making them. Got it back in a week and I'm still using it as a CD player in my main 2 channel rig because it will play practically anything. Doesn't sound bad using the internal DAC but I can always use Coax or digital to another DAC if I want.

I use the 203 in my HT but for me the killer app is it's ability to play all my ripped movies on my NAS via SMB. I have 2- 40TB NAS boxes with about 1400 DVD, Bluray and UHD movies I ripped (mostly MKV) with bonus features and a few thousand CD's both in FLAC and WMD lossless formats, and they all stream no fuss over a wired network to an LG OLED TV. Some of the UHD movies are 60-70 GB files and I still don't have any issues. I have the discs but I rarely use them. I also have a Plex server on a Mac Mini with the same movies indexed. The interface on the Oppo is simply file folders and isn't pretty like Plex but it's just easier to use since I have them organized by genre so I can find things easily. 

I'm looking for another UDP-203 in good condition, I just won't pay the inflated prices some people want. I'll get one at some point so I can put it on another TV and use the network capabilities, I'm not particularly worried about the hardware supporting physical disc play. I don't know of another UHD player that has that network ability, does anyone else?

You can get a fabulous second hand audiophile player for that amount of cash. I know what I'd pick