No extended version - no purchase.

Toshiba will have to seriously upgrade the player and not just "drop a BD drive in there".

I own a XE1 (European model of XA2) and my Oppo BDP83 wipes the floor with it. Both when it comes to speed and the quality of the DVD upscaling and deinterlacing.

Back in the HD war days I tried the HD-DVD drive with my Xbox360. It sounded like when my girlfriends vacuum the floor. I will not be using my Xbox for streaming.

Descent load times? Do you think the load times of the XA2 was descent? My HD-XE1 (european version of XA2) is slower than my Panasonic BD55 and by far the slowest of the HD players I have owned. If Toshiba want to impress anybody they have to beat Oppo BDO-83 and offcause the Sony Playstation 3 that have been in the market since day 1 of the "Great HD War".

I dont use this particular device, but a far cheaper one with more outlets..

In my little home cinama I have a a Xbox360, Sony PS3, Oppo BDP-83 Blu-ray, Samsung DVB-C HDTV thing, a 8 port ethernet switch, TViX 6500a, WII, Onkyo TX-NR905, Octava 5 port HDMI switch, Toshiba HD-XA1 HD-DVD and finally a JVC HD1 projector.

Most of these only consume 1-3 wats in standby, but the ethernet switch doesnt do standby and uses 10 watt. The Samsung DVB-C for the television signals use around 20 watts while running and exactly the same in standby. All together it is something like 40-50 watt when in standby so I bought a device to turn off the power for 10$ and it works like a charm.

The tray opens almost instantly. The player is ready in seconds when you turn it on. It is easily compared to PS3 in loading speeds, but playing the actual content on the disc is different from disc to disc. Depends on the use of Java etc.

No.. It isnt build in, but someone have hacked the firmware so for Blu-ray you have to manuallý change region and DVD is multi region.

http://www.codefreedvd.com/dvd_oppo_bdp83_multiregion_firmware.html

This player is actually quite cheap. In quality it is being compared to highend players from Denon and Pioneer and they are easily 3 times more expensive and have less features/are slower to operate.

I allready got mine.. and a region free kit.. Btw: It took 5 minuttes to install..

This is my fourth player and easily the best one yet.

I bought the DIY region free hardware kit it here:

http://www.crtprojectors.co.uk/region_free_bpd-83.htm

The free hacked firmware is here (that works perfectly (just remember to flash the original one in the same version first)).

http://www.codefreedvd.com/dvd_oppo_bdp83_multiregion_firmware.html

There is another DIY region free hardware kit soon available here (it will probably take a day or two)

http://www.bluraychip.dk/