There sure is a lot of deserved excitement over the upcoming 997 and much of the attention so far has been directed at the Trinnov Optimizer and how it might compare to the Audyssey system. So I'd like to open the discussion on the other major improvement in the 997: video processing.

The 997 will come out at about the same time as Oppo's BDP-83 that will have Blu-ray, decoding of all the new lossless codecs, and all the features of their DV-983H for improving standard DVDs. Cost for this new Oppo will be somewhere around $500 to $700. The new Oppo begs the question how the SO Reon video processing stacks up against Anchor Bay Technologies VRS as implemented in the DV-983H? Is there a consensus regarding the relative strengths and weaknesses of these two video processing approaches?