OPPO Jumps into the Blu-ray Fray

Even though the transition from VHS to DVD seems recent to most people, it is time to prepare for the next transition: DVD to Blu-ray. (For people who have not kept up with it, Blu-ray became the winner in the new format war over high-definition movies by beating HD-DVD.)

OPPO is not wasting any time to make the jump, and recently announced their BDP-83 universal disk player. Predictably, the BDP-83 offers excellent sound and quality, including upconversion of regular DVDs. To speak technically, OPPO expects the new player to support BD Profile 2.0 (BD-Live), DVD, SACD, DVD-Audio, Dolby TrueHD, and DTS-HD Master Audio, but right now, only BD Profile 1.1 (BONUSVIEW), DVD-Video, SACD, and bitstreaming of Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio has been mastered.

The BDP-83 should be available in early 2009 for around five hundred dollars.