You are mistaken, sorry. Read the third paragraph on Oppo's farewell announcement:
https://www.oppodigital.com/farewell.aspx Your other comments show your ignorance about Oppo's reputation and credibility.
I want to make it clear that I think Oppo's reputation and credibility are stellar. I have owned two Oppos and there is one in my rack to this day. They are awesome machines. And whenever I needed anything from them, they were great to deal with.
But that was all so.... yesterday.
Being on the other side of this kind of business closing thing more than once, here is my best guess about what is happening at Oppo.
The vast majority of the Oppo audio development group has likely already moved on to greener pastures. And if any talent still remains, they will probably be let go or transferred in the near future. There is no new work to do. If they are smart about it they will hold on to one or two of the group that are close enough to it to carry on to the final end. There probably will be a couple of firmware updates for the latest products. because most of the work is likely already in the pipeline. Then, they will stop because there is no longer a dedicated engineering/development group.
There will still be some work for a customer service group, at least until all the remaining shipments are out the door. Then there will be drastic attrition in that group as well. After that, all that's left for them is the CS portion of the warranty work. I would expect Oppo will honor all its in-warranty work. They will keep a small tech group or possibly contract that service out if its more profitable (read this as "costs less" because in warranty service it will be a distinct negative on the balance sheet. CEO's hat those}. Unless the out of warranty work can turn a profit (which I doubt), they will eventually contract that service out. It certainly wont be the Oppo service we all know and love. In time, Oppo service will completely stop. Private techs and tech savvy hobbyists will likely rise up with offers to service the broken Oppo's of the world. There will be a niche market for repairs. There will be a healthy used market for many years.
Once the manufacturing process is shut down and no longer generating income, support personnel become very expensive commodities.
Its not an Oppo thing... its a business thing. You simply cannot afford to pay for support labor for a product line that no longer exists nor contributes to the bottom line. They are no different from any other enterprise. There are no "nice guys" in business.
The only real question is how long this will all take. My estimate is 3-4 years.
Regarding what is on the Oppo website, sure I read it. More than once. In the face of closing up shop with one more run of product to clean out the parts inventories and get one last infusion of cash did you expect them to say "beware that we'll certainly be gone in a couple of years"? Maybe I should have used the "its on the internet so it must be true argument".
No matter. The longevity of Oppo really isn't a point to argue about. You believe what you will, and spend your money accordingly. It matters not to me nor to anyone else that is looking at this thread since none of it addresses the OPs original concern.
Wrong again. Not only do many new cars still come with CD players as standard, mine did as well, a 2015 Hyundai Accent. In addition, Pioneer still has 22 new and current aftermarket radio head units that have built-in CD players, one of which I used to replace the one that came in my Hyundai. I didn't even bother to check other manufacturers, bud I did 2 years ago when I did my shopping and virtually all manufacturers of aftermarket car head units offer models with CD players. Once again you pull nonsense out of your ass and present them as facts.
OMG .... this hurts.... I had to pull all this out of my ass too.
I don't have experience with your Hyundai. But 2015 was nearly 4 car model years ago. And I agree the situation was a little different then. If you take a look you may see that it has gotten worse. Depending on what car company we are talking about the audio entertainment choices on new vehicles have gotten smaller every year.
Here is what I do have experience with. My wife drives Chrysler 300's. She likes them. Next month she will take delivery on her third 300 in 12 years. The 1st was a 2006 model. It came with a CD player and believe it or not, a cassette player. There were several optional entertainment systems she could have chose. Next up was a 2015 model. This was the first year Chrysler stopped offering CD players. I don't mean as standard equipment, I mean no option for one. To try and replace the factory sound system means replacing the entire dash control system. the camera system, the climate control functions, the Nav functions. No aftermarket system was available. Other entertainment options were only concerned with features that were non audio (navigation w-fi and such). You are expected to either listen to XM radio, rip your own music and play it back from an SD card or USB drive, or stream it from your smartphone. And this wasn't just her car, it was the entire Chrysler line (maybe not the mini van... not sure). Her new one will only offer more of the same. No physical media allowed.
I'm a Chevy guy. In 2007 I bought an Equinox that came with a factory CD unit. In 2017 I leased a Traverse. It also came with a standard CD player. but this one wont play gapless and sounds like crap. Sadly there were no aftermarket head units available, again because of the integrated control systems that share function with the entertainment system now. in 2020 my leas will be up. I already know they have removed the CD players from any of the SUVs I am likely To consider for a new vehicle.
Pioneer may well have head units for sale. But if you are thinking of buying something new off the lot any time soon look closely at what can actually be installed.
I feel much better after pulling that all out.
Why would you bet I say the same thing about other previous formats? Is it because you like to express your disagreement by insulting my intelligence?
I would bet on the format thing because that's what everyone who is deeply entrenched in a specific format says. There is money involved. People tend to need to justify it. Hey I did it too for a while back in the day.
I can vividly remember the used record guy back in the mid 80's telling me how I was a fool to go in so big for these Compact Disk things. They were a fad that would die out in a few years. They had several fatal flaws, the biggest of which was how you couldant record on them. Yeah, he went broke and closed up shop in 2 years.
Same thing with VHS. There were tens of billions of those tapes out there too. So many that the market would never disappear, right?
Now its CDs. Like Sting says, "History will teach us Nothing"'.
The real point I want to make here is that Pod Cat started this thread looking for an Apple based option with which to rip his music collection. His motivation was that he disliked dealing with the physical disks. He got several well worded responses regarding the limited availability of Apple software and some encouragement on how it really isn't as difficult as it seems. You on the other hand took a different tack. You decided he was full of shit with his opinion of physical media and further implied he should just carry on with playing disks because its a better way. Its not. Not for me, not for many like me, and probably not for him. Maybe it is for you. You didn't address Eggplant's question or concern at all. You just kinda told him he was a fool for thinking that way.
Lastly, I have avoided insulting you buy claiming you are pulling stuff out of your ass or calling you ignorant. That was by design. Its just not my style. What I will say is that in my life experience, the few times someone has accused me of insulting their intelligence, well, there really was no need to make an effort to prove they were on the low end of the smart scale. They always made that point quite clear on their own.
I'm out on this thread. Eggplant if you need any help or anything, just PM.