It's a Chinese owned. Although operating independently it's finances come from China. I think the decision has more to do with Chinese retaliation against tariffs than anything else.
Oppo Ceasing production
Just visited Oppo's web site. They are ceasing production of all their products and will only do warranty work and firmware support for their products. They no longer have the resources to manufacture new products. Didn't see this one coming.
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This was an E-mail response to me from Oppo just a couple weeks ago. It made no mention of completely going out of business. Strange and sad. Bill, Unfortunately we have stopped the
manufacturing of the Sonica DAC and the HA-2SE as we were finding that the cost
of manufacturing such precision products and the sales volume were just not in a
good enough equilibrium to continue their manufacturing. So there are no current plans on manufacturing additional Soncia DAC and HA-2SE products. Customer Service OPPO Digital, Inc. 162 Constitution Dr. Menlo Park, CA [email protected] Tel: 650-961-1118 Fax: 650-961-1119Enter your text ... |
Very strange,
but not unexpected given the elimination of features in the latest 200 series
of players including direct access apps.
Purchased my BDP105 for 1) performance to $ ratio, 2) multi-format disk
play, 3) streaming and 4) two video outputs (I have a small 7” monitor at my
listening position). It seems the parent
company, BBK Electronics, is focusing on smart phones, MP3 & 4 players and
other consumer and industrial electronics.
For whatever reason, BBK didn’t sell the brand and continue as a third
party manufacturer.
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I was considering upgrading from my 105 to the 205 because I believe they had improved the shared DAC situation in the 105. Too late as their stock is gone. My 105 is amazing and solved many connectivity issues I would had in my system. As far as the media disappearing, I don’t see that as a consideration as I have a fairly large collection of CD’s some of which are SACD’s. |
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