OPPO OPDV971H Digital HD-Ready Up-Converting DVD Player
unit was not the latest one being shipped elsewhere
my beef with this unit, was that Amazon did not send me the latest product.  It is at least five months or more older than what you can get elsewhere.  I got 5 percent off from Amazon, but had to spend five dollars to get the free +shipping ($5.00)upgraded remote.  The older one is kind of junky, and it doesn't transmit a good strong infra red light to the unit, which means you have to point it right at the unit.  Next bad thing was the cables.  This was not Amazon's fault but the manufacture's.  They give you two cables, one hdmi, and one DVI.  I have a SP5000 projecter that has a DVI connecter but it is the newer DVI2 connecter.  Oppo has the older version DVI connecter.  This is one of the reasons I decided to buy this unit, because it had a DVI connecter, there goes another fifteen dollars, and having to wait for the cable to arrive. <br /> <br />The picture it produces is great.  Sometimes it starts with the picture shifted, and you have to power cycle it.  It also sometimes does not read the DVD disc correctly, so you have to open and close the tray, and then, most of the time it works.  I believe the tray motor retracts too quickly and the disk is shifted out of position, and then it can't read it.  <br />I had to load the latest firmware on myself, which was a fairly easy exercise, however I would liked to have avoided doing it, but having the ablity to upgrade the firmware, is a good thing.  The lip syncing problem is there sometimes, which also seems to fix itself with a power cycle.  For the money, I felt I got a good product, and I believe I would have had to have spent a good deal more to get a product that had gotten everything perfect.