I own the Oppo 80 and have it hooked up to my Toshiba 52" LCD HDTV via HDMI and it upscales DVDs to 1080p very nicely, indeed. Have no concerns, whatsoever!!! :cool:
I think Oppo's cautioning about the 80's upscaling performance compared to the 83's is only to steer people with gargantuan...