hifihunter, if you were signed up with OPPO, you would have received this email from them today:
"Thank you for your interest in the new OPPO BDP-103. We are accepting early-access pre-orders for the OPPO BDP-103 with shipping estimated to begin on September 28, 2012. We will release a limited number of players for this batch of early-access pre-orders. Pre-orders are limited to one player per customer and within the U.S. only. The OPPO BDP-103 will come pre-loaded with our latest firmware. As the BDP-103 represents new challenges and exciting new features, we expect firmware updates to be issued in higher frequency during this early-access pre-order period."