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If you have other region-free players then it's a moot point.

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In Reply to: RE: 2 things posted by Joe Murphy Jr on February 16, 2009 at 17:32:55

I assume by "DVD Decrypter/DVD Shrink" that you're talking about transferring one region's format to another (burning to DVD-R or hard-drive). I'm not set up to do that (I'm a plug and play kind of guy) and I don't have the time or desire to fiddle with transferring one region's discs to another format (my Region 2 PAL collection now numbers nearly a hundred titles). Also, since I have limited rack space single box solutions are always a priority.
>>> "I'm selling my oppo 983 for $350 + real shipping cost. The player has less than 8 hours of use (no, that's not a typo -- a little over 4 hours of SACD and DVD-A and around 4 hours of DVD use) and includes the latest firmware from oppo. Unlike some people who have left out accessories, the black oppo soft case, etc, I'm including everything that came to me from oppo -- even the original shipping box." <<<
That's fine; I'm sure that it will sell pretty fast in spite of the current economy. If I didn't have a back-up player already I might have been the lucky buyer.
My response arising from the query in your first post was a speculation on why Oppo may have hit a snag in releasing their somewhat over-hyped BD player (judging from all of the magazine ads I've seen for it recently). The bottom line is that Oppo is trying to replace the 983H with the BDP-83, (claiming on their site that the new Blu-ray player will replace their less than a year old benchmark DVD player) when in fact the new BD player may not perform one of the most crucial functions that Oppo's intended market has come to expect: The ability of unlock redbook DVD region coding via the menu, making it backwards compatible for existing DVD collections from all regions.
Cheers,
AuPh

Edits: 02/17/09

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