Thanks for the input. Looking forward to see it for myself.

My experience with Toshiba DVD players has been good in terms of the quality output but I have found them too sensitive to minor defects on the DVD (smudges, etc.). The result has been freeze ups, etc. The same disks that caused problems for my Toshibas (I have two) play with no problem.

Interestingly, the dealer where I bought my projector suggested the Marantz DV4500. He claims it plays just about everything with little in the way of freeze ups, rejects, etc.

John

One thing I like about this Oppo is the super error correction laser. Some of my MPG files were joined from spliced clips, which don’t play very smoothly during jointed points. Oppo fast-forward those bad segments to smooth them out instead of freezing up. Very nice!! It also has files explorer, which can browse all the files on the CD-R. But only folder and compatible files would appear. I found it doesn’t recognize some of my WAVE files ripped from PS2 disks. Strange… Anyway it did play all my DIVX porn very well with very good quality.

Another very useful function of Oppo is the channel gain boost. It lets you boost all the channels up to 10db. Great for pumping up the weak signals from some DVDs and for those people who don’t use surround processor.