- Twitching.
This is an internet thing right?
Not if I said it, it’s not. I just meant being nervous and unsettled.
Sad to see so few had heard of Oppo. They’ve pretty consistently sat at #1 or #2 on every single ratings/roundup of disc players for the past decade or so. But disc players are so commodity I guess nobody looks at reviews – disc goes in, video comes out, that’s your complete feature set, and you can get that plus streaming for about fifty bucks these days. And I imagine that’s a large part of why they’re shutting down.
They also were never sold in electronics stores AFAIK.
They were, but not major box/chain stores. You pretty much had to go to one of those boutique audiophile sort of places (“excuse me, sir, would you like to schedule a time for one of our demo rooms?”), probably because the SACD/DVD-Audio support was a big feature for that crowd. Frankly those places make my skin crawl more than a little bit, but I managed to brave it long enough to walk out with a 203 yesterday, and of course they tried to upsell me to a 205.