However, there was actually an X0 owner who used to post here at one time, "nin" was his username IIRC. I don't know if he's still contactable.
By all accounts, the most practicable solution for the less-priviledged is to look for the Pioneer LD-V8000, an industrial player with apparently better image quality than any of the home players - bar the X0 and X9 of course.