Russ, let me just say that the reviewers are spot on. Best Blu-ray player out there in my opinion. The quality on both the video and audio is fantastic. . And it is fast! Even BD-Live discs display quickly from tray load. I am used to Blu-ray players where you load a disc and then you can pop your popcorn get a soda and come back and they'll still be at the "loading" screen (ok - slight exaggeration). Not so with the Oppo. I keep meaning to do a little timed test with load to display times with it. But it seems like every time I go to try to set that up, I end up forgetting and watching the movie I just loaded because it looks and sounds so good.
And that I can play practically every format of CD and DVD (except HD-DVD of course) is a plus too.
They just released a firmware update for it this week (officially - it's been in beta release for a month). I plan on applying the update this weekend. Even that is supposedly effortless in that if the player is connected to the internet, it will notify you of the update.
The definitely thought this one through. I highly recommend it personally.
Mark
Aperion Audio Guru