OK, I'm impressed. I have never had a blu-ray player before, and my screen is only capable of 1080i at the moment. So I don't really have anything to compare the BDP-83 to. But I put the calibration disk in and watched the intro video clip and the benefits of blu-ray became very clear, even downsampled. The sound difference over my Pioneer Elite 47avi was very easy to hear.

I have posed a question to Oppo, but maybe Gonk knows the answer. I plugged a USB wireless adapter into the player and it is not recognized. I don't know if the BDP-83 is set up only to do network communications throught the network port, the USB connection is not yet activeated, or there is something I missed in setup. I'm using DHCP, so I did nothing but tell my router to recognize the MAC address of the player. Still, the test reports no connection.