Thanks VK, I found ncpl's post of 13/11/09. In august 2008 M proclaimed there was nothing wrong, so it took 15 months to get the problem acknowledged. Since it is, half a year has passed, which is pretty long considered Des stated that it was an easy fix because they just needed to drop in the correct code. This is just plain silly.

Oppo customer service seems to be doing a much better job. I had some problems with homebrew BDs locking up the Oppo, I send them a sample disk on their request and the problem was solved in the next firmware release ...