I really appreciate the comments posted here about the BDP-83 and Gonk's excellent review. I looked at the AVS Forum at the start of EAP 1 and found there were way too many posts there for me to tolerate weeding through (many having no bearing on player performance). I'm looking forward to more comments from EAP 2. Although I currently have a 10-year-old DVD player, I'm patiently waiting for Oppo to get this player right and offer it for retail sale (I was not picked for either EAP). While my current needs are only for upconverted SD-DVD and Blu-Ray, I do like the options to play other format disks and USB files in the future.