Simon, my take on this is that the Oppo is more revealing(especially the fully loaded modded versions), all these mods pull everything that can be gotten from the unit

sort of like HD-SDI for video, you get to a point where things are so revealing that you realize half the media out there is not all that great tired

just wanted to let everyone know that region free should be available next week, I will update the powerbuy page

thanks

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