Originally posted by sb-avnut:
It is currently being offered to those who got on the waiting list. It will probably be available for sale to everyone in early July - given that shipments till end-May is already sold-out.
I doubt that it will take them six weeks to re-stock after the interest list buyers get theirs. They already have the stock on hand for those initial buyers, and I think it's safe to presume they have additional units in production to replenish that stock. I'd guess closer to early June or mid June.
Originally posted by sb-avnut:
Also, I am beginning to think that the 997 will arrive AFTER the BD-83 Lite arrives - no or minimal analog section - basically a digital transport/decoder . Oppo is supposedly exploring something like that. Such an unit, with < $300 price tag - if it arrives by Sep 2009 - would be a perfect complement to the new processors.
I seriously doubt we'll see a little brother to the BDP-83 by September. They've been heavily focused on the BDP-83 so far, and I'm not sure they've even fixed in on a specific feature set for such a player yet. They'll need to develop at least some new board designs, then test it. The quickest turnaround they've had between player releases was going from the 970HD (released in May 2006) to the 981HD (released in December 2006) - and the 981HD had a lot of its architecture carried over from the 971H.
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