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Jack, my point is about complete openness with potential customers.

Posted by Audiophilander (A) on June 30, 2009 at 10:59:21

In Reply to: They were up front posted by Jack G on June 30, 2009 at 09:58:03:

>>> "They said long before it came out that it would not be region free." <<<

That is true, but OPPO is selling players to a larger market than just the folks who frequent this forum and the AVS forum. OPPO made their name and reputation selling high-quality region free players. I'll wager that a lot of folks considering the purchase of OPPO's new BD player will not be aware that this player is permanently region and zone locked from reading that disclaimer. I suspect that the average consumer will see it as a contradictory message because earlier players weren't universal as shipped, but easily hackable from the remote menu.

Unfortunately, the unwary might be prone to think the same thing would be true of this model; the disclaimer does not address this point.

>>> "The fact that it will convert PAL to NTSC just means it will play all region 0 discs." <<<

True, but like I was saying, you and I are readily aware of what this actually means because we've followed the heated debates during OPPO's beta testing. We've read the reports about the compromises OPPO made to receive licensing from the BD Consortium (Cartel) during the BDP-83 players development and we're (hopefully) savvy to the complexity of region coding issues.

But we're a small sector of the market that OPPO would like to reach with this player and I expect that there will be a lot of folks who've heard about OPPO's DVD players having region unlocking capability who will still be mislead by the conversion disclaimer.

>>> "The real odd part is that I was told that you need a video screen to set it up, which would mean that it won't go into audio only systems for the SACD." <<<

Yeah, that does seem like an complication/oversight if they are really want to emphasize the audio side of this player

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