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RE: Apparently, ...

Posted by Jazz Inmate (A) on February 20, 2009 at 20:25:45

In Reply to: Apparently, ... posted by Audiophilander on February 19, 2009 at 23:47:58:

Like you pointed out yourself, their base of operations is in California and they ship product from inside the U.S. even if it's manufactured in China. If Oppo had been violating any laws the studios and other hardware manufacturers would have been on them quicker that horse flies laying maggot eggs on your uninformed opinions!

Again, Oppo was in violation, but at the time it was just a small company trying to compete with the jauggernauts. DVD sales were huge everywhere and the studios decided there was no reason to make Oppo conform. Now it's built a reputation and commands an important part of the disc player market. It has to play by the rules.

I find it highly amusing that you would use Oppo's own advertising copy to try and spin your uninformed opinion.

It's their mission statement, not ad copy. I just posted it because it clearly doesn't support Jack's assessment of Oppo's mission to bring non-region A movies to his screen.

Not only are you tossing out advertising jargon to push your (naive?) POV without any empirical evidence to support it, but you're overlooking the company's word of mouth reputation for being the 'Swiss Army" DVD Player!

Yeah, I understand you losers on AVS drooled all over their gear just because you could play any disc under the sun with it. But quality and customer support were always of more interest to me and many others.

As I see it, Oppo's success has been built around three things: 1) fast, friendly service, 2) providing region-free access via a simple menu key code flies in the face of your argument, and 3) lots of bang for the buck.

Ok, fine, I agree with that, but you have to face the fact that you were living on borrowed time with #2 because once Oppo got big enough it was gonna have to start playing by the rules. That time is now.

Hello, Earth to Jazz Inmate? The not-so-average consumer is upwards of 50% of Oppo's customer base!

That speaks to the point I made about Oppo being small potatoes. The company wants to grow and it is not going to do that by appealing strictly to import-loving propeller hat wearing AVS denizens.

Small specialty companies attract customers who seek a more diverse A/V experience than usually offered by most major brands, including but not limited to international entertainment. At a boutique price point, Oppo serves a more tweak-friendly, intellectually astute customer base with broader tastes (you being the possible exception).

As the owner of an integrated tube amp that lists for $19,000, I'm well aware that some companies are striving for producing specialty electronics for a niche market. Oppo never struck me like that. Oppo wants to be the leader in affordable disc machines. So far, they have been able to do that while maintaining tremendous quality and customer support. I hope it lasts, but I wouldn't bank on it forever.

Great. OK, tell us again why you'd buy an overpriced Oppo BDP-83 that adds Blu-ray but takes away the key region unlocking feature if you already have a Blu-ray player and a nice SACD player (I assume that it's also an Oppo DVD player)?

Actually it's a Classe Omega SACD-2, which most definitely is a nice SACD player. My hope is that the BDP-83 will have superior picture and sound to the PS3 and not give up much quality in SACD or CD to the SACD-2...in which case I could keep the Oppo, sell my Omega disc machine, move the PS3 to my other TV, and have about $3000 in my pocket and some extra room on my shelf. I don't need to worry about region-locked DVDs because I've had the foresight to not buy any.
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Edits: 02/20/09

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