As a long-term 800 owner who upgraded at all the stages from v1 thru to v4 and who still loves what the 800 can do with CD's, but most particularly they way it performs with high res audio content from DVD-V's and DVD-A's, I was disappointed in Meridian's decision not to upgrade the 800.

But I think that time has shown that they made the right choice.

What High Res Content is available now on silver disc that was not available 3-5 years ago? The answer is very, very little that is worthwhile.

Any advances that have been made in making High Res content available has been via Downloads, so even if a Bluray / Meridian Upgraded Oppo were available, I'm not sure what use it would be in today's world (and FWIW, Bob Stuart will never have a Meridian player that plays SACD's).

And I really don't think that Meridian could have improved on the 1080p/24 Video Output from the Oppo's.

IMHO, they made the right choice.

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