Welcome me to the 1990's!

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Lol you clearly didn't sense the sarcasm in my post, of course I did not wait 15 years for the technology to reach perfection. I'm 29 years old, I've been building my stereo system for less than 2 years and was waiting out the HD wars before I purchased a player, and made my final decision to purchase DVD over Blu-Ray.

In any event, both my DVD player and your Blu-Ray player will be obsolete in 4 years time. However, the Oppo was a reasonably priced purchase for me, and I can enjoy tens of thousands of titles costing next to nothing (I don't rent media, but this is a personal preference). To be honest I couldn't care less about the higher definition video or audio quality offered by Blu-Ray. I own a 2-channel stereo system and 90% of my time is spent listening to music. But for that occasional time when I want to enjoy a movie, its nice to have the best upconverting DVD player ever built, in terms of video processing.

And when DVD and Blu-Ray are both replaced by media servers and streaming downloads, you'll be stuck with DRM protected Blu-Ray disks, while I can quickly rip my entire collection to a media server and enjoy all of the movies I've purchased for as long as I wish. So in fact, your overpriced Blu-Ray player will be obsolete before mine.

cheers,
elapsed

Dumb dumb dumb
You are not getting the point, that oppo cost just as much as a
blu player, so wheres the sense in that.
As for downloading off of "media servers" I do that already, did they pass a law that people with Blu ray players cant do this?
As for DRM wait untill you see those "media servers" guareentee ya
the DRM on those suckers will make BLU look open sourced
by comparison
DRM phobia is becoming so prevalent that they oughta put it in a psychology textbook, and then theres what it leads to... DOR
(denial of reality)
DRM is here to stay, sorry but you will have to pay for media you use,
simple as that.
As for the "better dvd picture" that is nonsense, the video amps,
scalers, everything on a Blu player is better in order to accomodate
the higher capabilities of the blu format, to say that your oppo is "better"
is that ol DOR kickin in again.
You get a little boost in Q on a DVD by deinterlacing its 480i pic to 480p, because you're going from interlaced to progressive, and twice as much info is on the screen at the same time, you cant wring any more rez outta it without three grand worth of equipment.
The entire tech is horse and buggy, it has nowhere to go, blu titles
are selling for as low as ten bucks, and how are blu players
"rediculousy" expensive when they cost as much as your oppo and do Blu ray?.
Send that oppo back, and step into the 21st century.
please
PS I have a car for sale, interested?