Yesterday I did some interesting discovery - oppo’s firmware do support progressive output on component connection!
Unfortunately my plasma panel do not support progressive scan on component so I can not test this feature.

Hi all,
v5 firmware has two bugs. first one is incorrect checksum and second one - brightness control.
v5.1 should fix both of them. You can download it here.

Hi all,
Here is long awaited firmware update for oppo 971.
Changes from v1:
+ Now browser has 9 lines, not 6.
+ New Audio settings menu.
+ Equalizer and Sound field settings are saved on power off.
+ Forced pan&scan feature.
Note that this mod is adopted mod for Russian bbk985 player, so second language of the firmware is Russian, not Chineese.
It can be downloaded here.