The AVS forums official OPPO BDP-103 thread went for better than 200 pages at one point. It covered everything from unpacking to networking. I tried to incorporate the TV and stereo running through the OPPO prior to the 2 channel preamp.

I ran from the Dish Network receiver HDMI out to the HDMI in on the OPPO. HDMI out of the OPPO to my Samsung and analog R & L to the Adcom pre. The down mixing from the OPPO was fair at best for TV or Movies and my experience is the M-975 does it much better. I would forget to shut everything off at night and come in to find the sync off to the point of laughable. If anything got firmware over night everything setting wise was out the window and had to start all over.

Life is much simpler now