Originally Posted By: XenonMan

Did OPPO do the same type of beta testing on the 103/105 that they did on the 83. They basically crowdsourced the beta on the 83 for a few months with 50 or so early adopters.


Not really quite accurate. Oppo has a pretty active volunteer beta testing group that's been going since they made DVD players. The "early adopter" program was a way to invite people to try the BDP-83 and help work out bugs, but the same beta testing process has been done on all their players. Firmware updates are also run through the beta group first, and many don't make it out.