Gonk,
Thanks again for your assistance. Everything now working fine. Do have one question. Am programming the 1070's remote to operate my HDTV, my cable box and my Oppo DVD. Was doing okay until the Oppo 971. Can find no 4 digit code and when I spoke with Oppo customer service, they even suggested this forum to see if anyone knew the proper code. I tried 1224 with no luck. Help from you or anyone else would be appreciated. To program remote to remote would be a royal pain. Thanks

You might also try 1525 - that should be the code for the 971H with the black remote, if it is included on the 1070's remote.

Thanks, will try 1525. However my brand new 971 has a silver remote.

Silver with a black face? That's the current remote, and it is the "black" remote - the original remote was all silver, followed by a pure black remote with different codes and then the current silver remote with black face that uses the same codes as the black one.

gonk,
Another question. I now have a Harmony 880 and it functions very well on at least basic functions. In reading my Oppo 971 manual, it discusses setting surround modes in the 971. I thought I only needed to do that in the 1070? I am now not sure what the Oppo passes to the 1070. Assume other upconverting DVD players are similiar.

The Oppo has onboard decoders for Dolby Digital and I think DTS, but they (and their associated surround mode settings) only used when the multichannel analog output is being used. For digital output, none of it applies.