as usual ill be accused of being a fanboy, but this player will be VERY VERY VERY VERY GOOD for dvds and lossless audio formats (less so for cds, but you cant have everything)

whats good is that it goes with a full ABT solution, unlike most that rely on the chepaer and absolutely horrendous NEC deinterlacer... In regards to DVD upsampling, this should pretty much be as near as possible to combining a good DVD player (e.g. 596) with a DVD0 Scaler...

Even Anchor bay said that the 983 campares favourably to an SDI modded DVD + theh DVD0... that is no small feat