Quote Originally Posted by nightflier
Well that's all fine for BR, but what about DVD where DTS-ES and DD-EX are much more prevalent? As I said originally, I have just a few BR movies but a whole collection of DVDs. I'm interested in the Oppo because of it's outstanding support for DVD, upconversion, and sound quality, but without DTS-ES and DD-EX, it kind of puts a kink in that armor. I guess I have two questions about it then:
Perhaps you should stick with DVD, and worry about a better DVD player than getting a Blu-ray player. You are putting such a high priority on two legacy codecs(enhanced) that are not even much used on Blu-ray, and Blu-ray is what the player should be about. The way EX and ES tracks are encoded, you really do not need the decoder anyway. To buy a Blu-ray player to support you small collection of EX and ES DVD titles(just over a hundred between the two formats) doesn't make much sense to me. As far as I know (and I have two players) the Oppo supports all DD and Dts format including ES and EX. I have played(with internal decoding) Stargate on Blu-ray which contains ES coding on the sixth center rear channel just fine.

- Is it possible for Oppo to add support for DTS-ES and DD-EX with a software update?
- What will the Oppo player do with DTS-ES and DD-EX encoded disks?
The answer to the first is yes.

The answer to the second is that it plays them.

The bottom line is I really don't want to have a whole shelf occupied with a separate pre/pro just for DTS-ES and DD-EX disks, not to mention that switching between the two wouldn't be pleasant either.
Why in the hell would you invest any money supporting old codecs on essentially old media? The Oppo is a great Blu-ray player, and if it does not decode a small fraction of the DVD releases with enhanced encoding(Dolby Digital and Dts are the original encodings) why in the heck would you pass on a extremely competent player of DVD's because of a undecoded back channel(which I don't think is the case at all). If I was more interested in getting ES or EX, then I wouldn't buy into Blu-ray at all. Get a DVD player! To be sure, EX and ES is not all that prevalent on DVD. There are only 119 EX titles, 98 Dts-ES titles and 60 Dts-ES discrete titles out of 100,000 or so releases on the format. Not what I would call prevalent.