Hi Folks,
Gaining more experience with the BDP-83 into the Octava. No pops, clicks, or dropouts through HDMI. Very high quality DVD-A playback. Talking Heads and Yessongs are fantastic. Interestingly some disks just start playing the multi-channel tracks, some I have to turn on the projector just to push play. SACD's are great. Beck and Bowie are great. High resolution audio from DD Master Audio is also great on movies.
The picture is pretty much perfect as can be on my my 720p DLP projector. If they could solve the handshake issue it would be perfect. But we're getting used to 3 seconds of blue screen when changing disks. I have the player plugged into the home network so I guess it will tell me when an update is available.
I imagine price/demand to be pretty solid for a while but it's not a terribly expensive player to begin with. The idea right now is to give it one last A/B comparison with the PS3 before sending the game console off to flea-bay.
I prefer using a remote to using a game controller to watch movies and listen to music.
Cheers,
Sam

G61R, DSP5200, DSP5200HC, DSP3100, HD621, Oppo UDP203, HDFury Vrooom, MC200. Happy!