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My recommendation would be the moded player.

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Audiophilander

In Reply to: RE: BUMMER!! posted by Harmonia on December 22, 2008 at 10:23:47

I love the quality of Oppo players, but it's obvious that the company has 'sold-out' gambling that they can get a bigger share of the high-end market by cow-towing to the BDA. After market mods is the future, and what Oppo has sacrificed in their bid for new found moral 'respectability' will produce a window of opportunity for other off shore manufacturers (which Oppo is as well).

What the Blu-ray Disc Association apparently doesn't understand or refuses to acknowledge is that their biggest competition for product which requires protecting (current films) is downloading (legal & illegal) or PPV and the greatest threat is piracy, not region coding.

The demands placed on Oppo to drop the region free DVD will absolutely KILL their sales, but they're taking the risk in order to license the BD platform. I suspect that some after-market moders are salivating at the prospect of picking up a few Oppo BD players and moding them for Oppo's earlier customers at a premium mark-up; if you can wait awhile, that might be worth the added cost.

OTOH, this will only increase demands on Oppo to shift gears and respond to their customers requests. I would NOT want to be in Oppo management's shoes when this is officially released, considering customer expectations for this higher priced player based upon prior product.

AuPh

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But of course. - Harmonia 21:46:08 12/22/08 (3)
You and I, the movie collectors of world cinema, are hardly the problem. BDA just makes life harder for the enthusiasts for no appreciable gain, as you're quite right IMO about the downloaders - hell, the guys with the vid-cams at theaters are more dangerous than us. Most of what I'm interested in is either never going to be released stateside, or will be altered or inferior version in this region. Luckily there are many titles I covet that are not coded, but several that are locked to Region B. It's hilarious as most titles I'm interested in aren't terribly commercial anyway. UGH!!

This is really too bad. I can live without a BD player for awhile, but the Oppo-out-of-the-box option seems closed for now.
- Agreed - Jack G 05:54:38 12/23/08 (2)
  Ironically, all of the Region B locked movies I want are older catalog titles that have been out on DVD for years.
  Jack
  - I have the sinking feeling that Oppo is in the process of manufacturing it's first Edsel. (nt) - Audiophilander 10:00:58 12/23/08 (1)
    :o(
    - I'm not so sure - Jack G 10:08:57 12/23/08 (0)
      They do have a following.
      That said, they are famous for being region free, and relatively cheap. This will be neither. I wasn't expecting it to be BD Region free, but I suspect they succumbed to pressure by some in the BDA to be DVD region locked as well.
      It doesn't even internally decode all the lossless audio formats.
      I would have expected better for $600.
      Jack

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