HD-SDI is a super high quality professional signal that is tapped directly off of the decoder inside the player, this delivers the purest video signal available, free from of any conversions, HDMI output, bit errors and even HDCP protection

you do need a scaler for it though, the VP50pro has dual HD-SDI inputs as does the Crystalio 3800pro and there are HD-SDI to HDMI converters to fed any scaler

that seems to be around 4 for the SPDIF modified Oppo, keep the interest coming I know Tommy from Sweden wanted one as well, he was the the original member to contact me and get me started on the forums here)

region free will be available, the mod is still being completed

I am ready to go on everything guys, I am just waiting on stock to be available from Oppo, as soon as I can get players I will be offering this stuff

however, any of you lucky enough to have been chosen on the early adopter public beta we can mod your units right now, this is how our early customer was chosen, he sent in a EAP to us

you guys are going to love this thing, it even decodes and plays back DTS/Dolby Digital tracks from SD DVD perfectly and outputs as PCM via the mod, so you can have the Meridians do zero internal decoding

DVD
HDCD
CD
any type of hi rez media files
Blu-Ray(internal decoding of ever format nameable)
SACD
DVD-Audio

all decoded internally and output from the SPDIF mod, no EDID stuff to deal with, no HDMI output connection needed

thanks

-Gary Murrell
http://www.custom-ht.com/oppopowerbuy.html
My Personal HT setup