Well, I also suspect that the BDP-83 won't be their only Blu-ray player forever. They won't be able to replace the 980H's price point with an OPPO Blu-ray player just yet, but they could scale back the BDP-83's platform and have a less expensive player that would be able to sell for somewhere between the 980H's $170 and the BDP-83's $500. I'm sure the market for a $170 DVD player has been shrinking lately, so it's very possible that OPPO has already made a final production run of 980H's and stockpiled a supply in their warehouse. They sold both the 981HD and 983H until their inventory ran out, but I have no idea how long those final production runs lasted.