Believe me, I have great respect for the hardware Oppo has produced, and I almost bought one of their DVD players myself a couple of years ago. But if you polled 100 people at random on the street, how many do you think will have heard of the Oppo brand? Maybe two? That's what I meant by "semi-off-brand", definitely not intended as a knock on their quality, just more of a jab at the idea that Blu-ray hardware is overpriced at this point in the format's life.
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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Believe me, I have great respect for the hardware Oppo has produced, and I almost bought one of their DVD players myself a couple of years ago. But if you polled 100 people at random on the street, how many do you think will have heard of the Oppo brand? Maybe two? That's what I meant by "semi-off-brand", definitely not intended as a knock on their quality, just more of a jab at the idea that Blu-ray hardware is overpriced at this point in the format's life.