Oppo, the maker of the acclaimed
BDP-83 Blu-ray player, is expanding its BD business to the UK and has revealed that the company is no longer interested in developing DVD hardware. "We have sold out of DVD players and there are no more to come," said Oppo spokesman Pan Min to UK magazine
Home Cinema Choice. "The DVD business is over for us. We are committed to Blu-ray."
Oppo is setting up a base in the UK to develop its Blu-ray business. The European version of its BD player, the
BDP-831, is now available in the UK, priced at around £450.
"We may be a very small company," said Min, "but where we are different from the likes of Denon and Sony is that we listen to our customers. Feedback is really important."
Min revealed that Oppo currently has an engineering team of around 100 based in China working on its Blu-ray products.