Oppo Ceasing production

I never went for BluRay. Nor will I go for 4K discs. But I will buy an Oppo 205 (if they do make them temporarily available again in June as they say they will.
I own multi thousands of DVDs. The pic is just fine when up-sampled.

I never went for SACD either. LOL
But I just bought a $7000 SACD player.
Go figure.
I own five SACDs, 2500 CDs. I bought the player to play CDs.

I may have missed it in this long thread, but I take it this means that there will be no firmware upgrades for the BDP105 which is a bummer as new and upgraded music codecs are introduced.

I believe that Oppo has stated that they will continue to support their products for warranty, service and updates, but owners of previous models to the last generation should expect the rate of such updates to decrease.

Bad news for those of us who, in addition to playing CDs and DVDs, use the BDP-105 as a DAC to play files from a NAD or attached storage. We can be sure that standards will develop beyond the current DSD which is, I believe, latest audio codec that it can process.

 

It occurred to me that despite my beloved Oppo105's clarity and flexibility, I rarely use it to spin discs, even with a 500+ cd library (I know, not that much at all). I usually stream Tidal through my phone or through my laptop via a 3.5-RCA connection.

And there are more and more network players, streamers, and smart tv's. etc. I mean, we stream Tidal through our 4K smart TV in the upstairs system and cd's are relegated to the dedicated audiophile system downstairs.

Yet I wonder why Oppo isn;t making the change to a media server, something like the Nait Uniti?