Is there any real alternative to Oppo??

With the 103 and 105, you also get very useful streaming features.

Since you seem content to accept second best, look at the one's you've mentioned, i.e. denon, marantz. Those are the brands you're likely to find locally. You can probably get the Oppo with fee shipping from Oppo and have it in a couple of days. Why so impatient?

Technically Oppo and Cambridge use the same Mediatek platform. There are a number of threads on this, but "Agisthos" appears to have a good handle on this in this thread:

http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?ddgtl&1314367322&openfrom&2&4#2

Pretty much all the big box type Blu-Rays have some drawbacks. Oppo has it all. If all you want to do is play Blu-Ray and bitstream the new HD audio formats to a receiver, a lot of the main stream players will work fine. The Oppo is typically better at upscaling DVD, at playing SACD, DVD-A, etc. One feature I love is the ability to zoom by 1.1 or 1.2, which allows you to fill more of the screen with little loss of detail on good Blu Ray. Pretty much everything in the $100 to $500 range that is not an Oppo is a compromise. But if you do not need the flexibility of the Oppo, then a lot of the big one ones will be the basics. Kia versus BMW, but with a small price difference rather than the big one for the BMW. If you are really serious about video and audio, wait the week for delivery of the real deal. You are not going to get a cheapo Blu Ray and a separate CD/SACD/DVD-A for $500 that compares to the Oppo, unless you go deep into the use market.

Douglas, the CA 751 is using the same base as the Oppo 93 but swaps out the ESS/Cirrus DAC for their own Wolfson DAC stage.