Oppo Ceasing production

Of equal or greater concern to the high-end is the imminent bankruptcy of Gibson.  That could force it to shed or fold its audio brands TEAC, Onkyo, and Esoteric.   

This is indeed very sad news and for me a huge shock!
I own three of their players
bdp83...owned 6 years
bdp 93....owned 3 years
bdp105...owned 1 year

not one of them have been touched at all and all still give faultless service

maybe that's part of the problem? stuff that does not break or wear out and gives perfect service does not tend to be replaced or upgraded as often.
Sad but maybe they were built too well? At least in todays throw away, flavour of the week society.

But whatever if somebody like Oppo cannot make it work the $ numbers any longer could anybody else who take over the operation?

Sorry to hear that.  Must be a very competitive market and hard to make profit with limited market squeezed on all sides and narrow margins on sales alone.   Could the festering trade war with China be a culprit?

This is sad. I don't own any Oppo players, but agree they are very good. They were a major player in affordable digital.

Wow, this is a surprise! But, then again, I guess it's really not. I don't know a single person who still buys CDs like I do for my Oppo 103. I mentioned to an audiophile friend I was considering purchasing a better CD player. His only response was "You might want to re-consider that".