Oppo Ceasing production

There is someone on here selling a brand new in box Oppo 205 for...wait for it....$2600.00.  I sent the person selling the player a nice and polite PM saying that what he is doing is taking advantage of a bad situation and that he should be ashamed of himself for price gouging.  His response that he is much cheaper than the 4-6K they are selling for on eBay and that I am a jerk for stating the obvious.  What person in their right mind would pay that kind of money for it?  At the retail price, it is a decent product, but at 4-6K???  You can buy an Ayre or Esoteric for that kind of money.  Anyone who pays over retail for a 205 is a fool IMHO.

Anyone who pays over retail for a 205 is a fool IMHO.

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Anyone who pays over retail for a 205 is a fool IMHO

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Glad I bought an OPPO HA-1 DAC. Hard find one now.

I think the combination of 4K and streaming services are the major culprits in Oppo's decision to jump ship. The price jump from DVDs to Blu-Rays years ago was somewhat of a shock, but there was still growth potential there. With the price of most 4K discs being around $25, very few people are going to get on that merry-go-round for the 2nd time. I'm
pretty sure Oppo has crunched the numbers and seen there's no future in producing hardware for discs that relatively few people are buying in numbers big enough to support the platform.