New lower-cost Oppo Blu-ray player
January 19th, 2010
We’ve been longtime fans of Oppo’s disc players, but as much as we liked the company’s BDP-83 Blu-ray player, its US$500 price puts it out of reach for most buyers. With that in mind, Oppo has released the BDP-80, a lower priced Blu-ray player that looks to keep much of what we liked about the BDP-83 for only US$290. It’s available today. The easiest way to see the differences between the new BDP-80 and the BDP-83 is to check out Oppo’s comparison chart, but the short story is that it keeps most of the BDP-83’s features, but has a step-down video processor, can’t output DVD at 24 frames-per-second, and it lacks some customer-installation-friendly options like an RS-232 port and IR inputs and outputs.
