http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/oppo-adds-a-second-cheaper-blu-ray-player-option-with-the-289/ Engadget Comments for Oppo adds a cheaper Blu-ray player to its lineup with the $289 BDP-80 http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/oppo-adds-a-second-cheaper-blu-ray-player-option-with-the-289/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/oppo-adds-a-second-cheaper-blu-ray-player-option-with-the-289/(encrypted download)
like what happened when people preordered L4D]]>Jan 25th 2010 5:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/oppo-adds-a-second-cheaper-blu-ray-player-option-with-the-289/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/oppo-adds-a-second-cheaper-blu-ray-player-option-with-the-289/Yes.]]>Jan 25th 2010 5:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/oppo-adds-a-second-cheaper-blu-ray-player-option-with-the-289/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/oppo-adds-a-second-cheaper-blu-ray-player-option-with-the-289/thx]]>Jan 25th 2010 5:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/oppo-adds-a-second-cheaper-blu-ray-player-option-with-the-289/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/oppo-adds-a-second-cheaper-blu-ray-player-option-with-the-289/Jan 25th 2010 5:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/oppo-adds-a-second-cheaper-blu-ray-player-option-with-the-289/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/oppo-adds-a-second-cheaper-blu-ray-player-option-with-the-289/If you want cheaper, get a crappy $99 player.

Oppo products cost more, but they are certainly not overpriced.]]>Jan 25th 2010 5:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/oppo-adds-a-second-cheaper-blu-ray-player-option-with-the-289/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/oppo-adds-a-second-cheaper-blu-ray-player-option-with-the-289/So you're willing to spend big money on a Mac (Macbooks don't come cheap) but you're incapable of using that same attitude when choosing a Blu-ray player? Well, you do have a 42" Sharp, so I suppose I shouldn't be too surprised...just an Apple fanboy who is otherwise a cheapskate if the product doesn't come manufactured by Apple.]]>Jan 25th 2010 6:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/oppo-adds-a-second-cheaper-blu-ray-player-option-with-the-289/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/oppo-adds-a-second-cheaper-blu-ray-player-option-with-the-289/
And I agree with you that quality costs more, that's why I own a macbook. And I am not an apple fan fanatic, this late 2008 unibody macbook is my first Apple product! Followed by a 2G Ipod Touch and 3G Shuffle. All three of which helped me to appreciate how far apple has come. I only switched to mac when I had to waste 70+ hours trying to get my commercial science and office equipment to work with the Vista that management at the Lab just had to install on all of the workstations... weak. Admittedly Win 7 was a major correction, but we switched to Ubuntu for other reasons (to virtual machine XP) and save $ on licensing fees mostly!

And for the record, I have been testing $300 blue ray players for the past year and so far have been very disappointed. They boot up slow and load slow. All of that bloatware BD+ disc software anticopy dizzle dazzle seem to bog the current iteration of players down.

And its only a matter of time before a good Blu-ray drops to $100 or less. You can pick up a quality DVD player for $40 now, and the High End Oppo like DVD players of yesteryear were once fetching $400+....

Said what? ]]>Jan 25th 2010 7:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/oppo-adds-a-second-cheaper-blu-ray-player-option-with-the-289/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/oppo-adds-a-second-cheaper-blu-ray-player-option-with-the-289/Jan 25th 2010 7:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/oppo-adds-a-second-cheaper-blu-ray-player-option-with-the-289/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/oppo-adds-a-second-cheaper-blu-ray-player-option-with-the-289/
HA-HA-HA !]]>Jan 25th 2010 9:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/oppo-adds-a-second-cheaper-blu-ray-player-option-with-the-289/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/oppo-adds-a-second-cheaper-blu-ray-player-option-with-the-289/WHY WAS I NOT INFORMED]]>Jan 25th 2010 3:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/oppo-adds-a-second-cheaper-blu-ray-player-option-with-the-289/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/oppo-adds-a-second-cheaper-blu-ray-player-option-with-the-289/Jan 25th 2010 5:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/oppo-adds-a-second-cheaper-blu-ray-player-option-with-the-289/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/oppo-adds-a-second-cheaper-blu-ray-player-option-with-the-289/Jan 25th 2010 7:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/oppo-adds-a-second-cheaper-blu-ray-player-option-with-the-289/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/oppo-adds-a-second-cheaper-blu-ray-player-option-with-the-289/http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10172042-1.html . Although Sony developed Blu-ray the physical medium, they don't get 'all' the money.]]>Jan 25th 2010 8:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/oppo-adds-a-second-cheaper-blu-ray-player-option-with-the-289/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/oppo-adds-a-second-cheaper-blu-ray-player-option-with-the-289/
Actually, Panasonic owns more patents on the Bluray technology than Sony.]]>Jan 25th 2010 10:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/oppo-adds-a-second-cheaper-blu-ray-player-option-with-the-289/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/oppo-adds-a-second-cheaper-blu-ray-player-option-with-the-289/
They were *more* invested in HD-DVD because they had other technologies on that format. HD-DVD was also pretty much exclusively using VC-1, so they pushed hard for its adoption, as that would lead to much more royalties had it won.

-Pie]]>Jan 25th 2010 12:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/oppo-adds-a-second-cheaper-blu-ray-player-option-with-the-289/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/oppo-adds-a-second-cheaper-blu-ray-player-option-with-the-289/Jan 25th 2010 7:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/oppo-adds-a-second-cheaper-blu-ray-player-option-with-the-289/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/oppo-adds-a-second-cheaper-blu-ray-player-option-with-the-289/Jan 25th 2010 8:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/oppo-adds-a-second-cheaper-blu-ray-player-option-with-the-289/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/oppo-adds-a-second-cheaper-blu-ray-player-option-with-the-289/
;)]]>Jan 25th 2010 9:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/oppo-adds-a-second-cheaper-blu-ray-player-option-with-the-289/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/oppo-adds-a-second-cheaper-blu-ray-player-option-with-the-289/I was getting ready to post the same thing, except I was going to be more generous and claim the Lexicon version would only be $3,500!

It will be interesting to see how this new player compares to the BDP-83.]]>Jan 25th 2010 10:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/oppo-adds-a-second-cheaper-blu-ray-player-option-with-the-289/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/oppo-adds-a-second-cheaper-blu-ray-player-option-with-the-289/]]>Jan 25th 2010 10:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/oppo-adds-a-second-cheaper-blu-ray-player-option-with-the-289/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/oppo-adds-a-second-cheaper-blu-ray-player-option-with-the-289/Jan 25th 2010 10:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/oppo-adds-a-second-cheaper-blu-ray-player-option-with-the-289/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/oppo-adds-a-second-cheaper-blu-ray-player-option-with-the-289/
Pants on the ground, pants on the ground, lookin' like a FOOL with your pants on the ground!]]>Jan 25th 2010 10:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/oppo-adds-a-second-cheaper-blu-ray-player-option-with-the-289/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/oppo-adds-a-second-cheaper-blu-ray-player-option-with-the-289/lol,lol... that guy is the best...]]>Jan 25th 2010 10:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/oppo-adds-a-second-cheaper-blu-ray-player-option-with-the-289/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/oppo-adds-a-second-cheaper-blu-ray-player-option-with-the-289/Jan 25th 2010 11:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/oppo-adds-a-second-cheaper-blu-ray-player-option-with-the-289/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/oppo-adds-a-second-cheaper-blu-ray-player-option-with-the-289/Jan 25th 2010 12:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/oppo-adds-a-second-cheaper-blu-ray-player-option-with-the-289/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/oppo-adds-a-second-cheaper-blu-ray-player-option-with-the-289/
The ABT chip is the killer chip that makes p[eople buy Oppo. Without the ABT chip, why even bother buying an Oppo?

What Oppo should've done is to created a BD transport only (no analog out, HDMI only) but still stick with ABT chip.]]>Jan 25th 2010 12:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/oppo-adds-a-second-cheaper-blu-ray-player-option-with-the-289/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/oppo-adds-a-second-cheaper-blu-ray-player-option-with-the-289/
If not, then I can see what some posters have mentioned above, that perhaps the BD-60 from Panasonic would present a better value, versus this new Oppo. ]]>Jan 25th 2010 12:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/oppo-adds-a-second-cheaper-blu-ray-player-option-with-the-289/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/oppo-adds-a-second-cheaper-blu-ray-player-option-with-the-289/Jan 25th 2010 3:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/oppo-adds-a-second-cheaper-blu-ray-player-option-with-the-289/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/oppo-adds-a-second-cheaper-blu-ray-player-option-with-the-289/Jan 25th 2010 12:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/oppo-adds-a-second-cheaper-blu-ray-player-option-with-the-289/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/oppo-adds-a-second-cheaper-blu-ray-player-option-with-the-289/Jan 25th 2010 1:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/oppo-adds-a-second-cheaper-blu-ray-player-option-with-the-289/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/oppo-adds-a-second-cheaper-blu-ray-player-option-with-the-289/
the problem is in my home theatre, (2.4:1 ratio) the screen 16:9 area is approximately the same as a 103" plasma and viewed from 9 ft away. DVD upscaling wise, I'm pretty sure anybody will be able to see the difference between the 80 vs 83 DVD upscaling]]>Jan 25th 2010 3:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/oppo-adds-a-second-cheaper-blu-ray-player-option-with-the-289/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/oppo-adds-a-second-cheaper-blu-ray-player-option-with-the-289/
now if you want to set up the test, be my guest, let me know where and when, and many posters here will attend for sure! ;)]]>Jan 25th 2010 4:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/oppo-adds-a-second-cheaper-blu-ray-player-option-with-the-289/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/oppo-adds-a-second-cheaper-blu-ray-player-option-with-the-289/Jan 25th 2010 10:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/oppo-adds-a-second-cheaper-blu-ray-player-option-with-the-289/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/oppo-adds-a-second-cheaper-blu-ray-player-option-with-the-289/Jan 25th 2010 9:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/oppo-adds-a-second-cheaper-blu-ray-player-option-with-the-289/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/oppo-adds-a-second-cheaper-blu-ray-player-option-with-the-289/Jan 25th 2010 10:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/oppo-adds-a-second-cheaper-blu-ray-player-option-with-the-289/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/oppo-adds-a-second-cheaper-blu-ray-player-option-with-the-289/
Then you must've never used a proper upscaler.

Yes, upscaled DVD will never be as good as Blu-ray... but many timeds the movie/concert etc are NOT availalbe on Blu-ray.

If you use upscalers such as ABT or even better, Marvell, the result will be good enough to not make me cringe.]]>Jan 26th 2010 9:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/oppo-adds-a-second-cheaper-blu-ray-player-option-with-the-289/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/oppo-adds-a-second-cheaper-blu-ray-player-option-with-the-289/
1. This is a universal player, which plays the hi-rez audio formats SACD and DVD-A as well as Blu-ray. It is the least expensive such player on the market, and the fact that it comes from such a highly respected vendor makes it the first choice for someone who needs such a unit. If you need a universal layer, start here.

2. This is a digital transport; if you own an excellent pre/pro and just want to feed the raw data to your video processor, again, it's a bargain.

3. If there are specific niche features that you need (simultaneous video from HDMI and component outputs; simultaneous audio from HDMI and analog audio outputs; 7.1 analog audio; 24 frame DVD support; etc) then this or the BDP-83 may be the least expensive player that combines all the features you need.

If all you want is a standard BD player with routine SD upconversion and some streaming features, you don't need an Oppo. But I don't think anyone who has bought one has ever really regretted it.]]>Jan 27th 2010 1:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/oppo-adds-a-second-cheaper-blu-ray-player-option-with-the-289/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/oppo-adds-a-second-cheaper-blu-ray-player-option-with-the-289/Jan 27th 2010 12:50PM