I've had mine since late September, and I'll second Peter's comments. I'm not going to get into too much detail about the player until the Early Adopter program gets off the ground and things really start hopping, but I'll offer two observations for the moment.

First, I have not missed my 983H - something that I didn't think would be possible a few months ago. As Peter points out, standard DVD's will love this player.

Second, I'll save my funny story for later, but the punch line is that the analog section that 990 owners will be so interested in is very nice.