xhonzi said:

Mike O said:

It looks like this'll set me back almost $700. Wish there was a cheaper option like there was for my DVD player, but doesn't like like it.

I'm just here to be your reality check- let's say a decent region locked BD player is $100. Is it worth the $600 difference to play BDs you haven't even identified yet? What if you just got the $100 BD player and crossed the bridge of "region free" when you actually want it? Perhaps that's so far in the future that prices will have come down much further than the $100 sunk cost of this option.

This has most certainly occurred to me. The problem with that is that I have a number of DVDs that it wouldn't be able to play and switching the players depending on what I want to play would be annoying and I'd like to just kill the whole problem in one fell swoop. Now, if the Oppo is as good as Mr. Sylvester and others have told me, then after all of this sunk money, I'd at hopefully have it and future BR problems permanently solved. Unfortunately, it's not as easy as it was with DVD where I could just pick up almost any player and modify it. It's a question of patience: what could come down the pipe and when. Still, you're right. It's worth thinking about. But patience has never been my strong suit :P.