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zaphod · Joined: 16 Jun 2006 Posts: 2002 Location: Cloverdale

it might be because the 83 is a playback machine and not a streaming machine. the PS3 streams as a side bonus from it's online gaming capabilities. that is, it's designed to read a digital stream from the internet (game) so why not make a path from that to the dac already in there and provide mp3 streaming from sites like pandora?

you can get a squeezebox to do the pandora streaming.

**kal** · Posted: Tue May 25, 2010 6:28 pm Post subject:

NEW! The less expensive BDP-80 is also now available:

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NEW LOWER COST OPPO BDP-80! The New Oppo BDP-80 is now available as well. It's a 'light' version of the BDP-83. It still features BD-Live compatibility, DVD-Audio and SACD playback but drops the ABT2010 video processor, aluminum faceplate and some of the audio capabilities of the big brother BDP-83. Other items sliced to get the price down to $289 from $499 are IR in/out, RS-232 control interfaces, and a backlit remote.

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betel · Posted: Tue May 25, 2010 10:02 pm Post subject:

I guess the PS3 spoiled me to expect streaming from a disc player.

From what I've read, the BDP-80 should offer the same blu-ray video/audio performance. It is very rare I would watch a DVD on the G90 so the lower upscale performance isn't really an issue but the plastic front is hard to take.

I really hope I don't buy the 83 and then next week Oppo comes out with the BDP-83s or something that has streaming and at a lower price to boot.

Update: The deed is done. Ordered from Amazon via Curt Palme.

ecrabb · Posted: Tue May 25, 2010 10:14 pm Post subject: