Before chiming in I went to the Oppo site and was surprised they currently are not selling any players. The 95 is not out yet, the 83 has been discontinued and the 80 is out of production due to parts issues. I'd be frustrated if I was looking to buy a player right now!
The BDP-80, BDP-83, and BDP-83SE have all been sold out due to a supplier discontinuing a key component. Rather than re-tool, they just started pushing a little harder on the BDP-93. A couple weeks ago, they started offering the BDP-93 to some customers on the interest list, with the understanding that firmware development was still ongoing - the 30-day evaluation period will start when production firmware is done and the player goes on sale through the site. Technically, I could probably start talking a lot more about the BDP-93 now (at least anything that's in the latest firmware that available to customers), but I haven't had much time lately...
Gonk eluded to Blu-ray for high resolution stereo and I think that would be great but high res stereo seems to be most easily had by downloading it. I have not been all that impressed by the selection at most of the high res music sites but that could be just my taste in music. Looking at the hi res catalogs reminds me of a SACD catalog; lots of classical and hardly any mainstream artists. The music must have an audience, its just not me. I'm probably mistaken but I don't think I've ever seen an audio only Blu-ray (either multi-channel or stereo). Are there any?
There are some, actually. There are also some that are "audio-centric" with some limited video. A lot of what's out there is concert stuff, which has an obvious video aspect. Some is not, including the latest Tom Petty studio album and a collection of all Neil Young's albums from 1963-1972. Taking away the concert releases, though, most of what's out there is similar to the SACD catalog - small labels like 2L, who has started releasing almost exclusively on Blu-ray and SACD, and releases that are heavy on classical content.
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