Oppo DV-983HD or the DV-980 -- the 981 does not have the same audio circuitry the famous 980/983 have. The 983 is basically a 980 with upgraded video circuitry and full hdmi 1080p support. Oppo is supposed to be releasing a Blu-Ray player sometime woohoo, can't wait. The nice thing about those oppo players is their ability to spit out your cd/sacd dvd-a streams in pcm over hdmi, so your high quality receiver gets the highest quality signal from your oppo player, making those hi res sacd/dvda discs truly shine. Linear PCM makes all the difference in the world if your an audio afficiando like myself, I have a PS3 for blu ray, movies with linear pcm tracks sound far better than your normal compressed audio formats.
I'm kind of excited for my pc setup, the makers of my auzentech soundcard are releasing an HDMI 1.3 card for pc's, planning on picking up another panasonic sa-xr57 receiver, we have one in the living room, for my pc speaker setup, hopefully that card will implement full pcm support over hdmi, native pcm would be a killer combo for my pc speakers which consists right now of Klipsch Forte II's as fronts and JBL HLS 610's as rears, both extremely detailed horn loaded speakers.
