Oppo Ceasing production

@vrao81 No, high end audio isn't doomed for young people.  High end shouldn't mean high price.  Which is what I think you are referring to.  If so , then yes.  However, Oppo was an example of an affordable and accessible but, good sounding digital products. A shame they are stopping.  

It really makes no sense. When you have a name and a product that has market respect... there is marketable value!  Why isn’t the audio products business being sold to another respected brand who would probably like to have oppo???

Assuming they actually just walk away, what CD player or cd/dac combo can you buy for $1300 that is as good or better?

More than likely has to with trade and tariffs.

If so, this could be the tip of the iceberg. I just saw used BDP-103 units going for low $400 to just over $600 on amazon. One could buy a UDP-203 and sell their 103 to cover most of the cost. 

I'm leaning towards getting a UDP-203.

All the best,
Nonoise

Since you old folk are feeling without hope for the future of high end audio because your Blue ray drives are becoming defunct, I wrote a post in Misc Audio about my (a millennial's) journey from low-end to high-end audio. 

https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/a-millennial-recounts-their-journey-from-low-end-to-high-end-...

TLDR: Thanks to Hi-fi streaming, high-end audio won't be dead anytime soon.

Everything that has been said here on the OPPO situation is on the mark.  One additional comment. OPPO as with many companies actually assembles their equipment in China. Consider the tariffs
that have been imposed recently and how they add to the cost of production. The uncertainty of our world economic situation would give any company pause in planning their future. Note that OPPO stayed in the Chinese market.
Frankly OPPO could have charged more for their products and still sold them in the USA.  However the failure of UHD (No discs) makes selling players difficult to non audiophiles. If the CD goes the route of vinyl ( it appears to be doing that) then shifting the focus of 
OPPO players to the audiophile market would be the right move.
Which is exactly what they have been doing for the last several years.

I agree with the members who said that just too many factors made it difficult for OPPO to make money. A real shame when we lose innovative USA company of this caliber.