I absolutely love this player!! I have owned three other brands, but this one is by far the best. One great feature is that instead of disc skip, this player allows you to select a specific disc. Not to mention that the features are numerous here (the owner's manual is as thick as I've ever seen for a DVD player). The picture is great, and is even better if you are able to use the progressive scan features. I highly recommend this player.

I bought this player (Gold colored) 2 years ago. I liked it so much that I just bought the Black one a week ago for another room in the house. The reason why, it is simply an extremely well engineered piece of equipment. Superb audio and video output period. I have found that this unit has the best zoom (more than just 3 or 4 zoom levels) and more levels of forward and backward speeds (useful when searching through a chapter on a DVD and you don't want to miss it by going too fast, and don't want to wait forever by going too slow) than any other unit I have tested or looked at.

The remote is one of the best I have ever used, and I find it very intuitive and easy to use. The user's manual is great as well. I also liked that it came with a component video cable and I didn't have to purchase one separately.

If you plan to use this unit primarily as a DVD player and are likely to have "marathon" DVD sessions, this unit is superb. I often have a mix of several 2 disc DVD's and... Read more

I bought this DVD Player after trying quite a few other brands, and it is by far the best looking, and best build quality. DVD and music CD playback are excellent and there are a lot of nice features for setting up the display, etc.

However, one main reason for buying a new player was to view JPEG photo CDs, and listen to MP3 audio CDs. This player is not good for either: it does not recognize the ID3 tags in MP3 audio files and fails to play any file containing them (so, if you've ripped any audio in the last year or more you've got to start again). Also, it is extremely slow in displaying JPEG photos, although it seems to be one of the few players to load the photo at full resolution (so if you zoom in you see a lot of detail). Load times for a 4M-pixel photo are about 20 to 30 seconds! You could choose to re-burn all your photo CDs at lower resolution, but why not just buy a player that shows them faster?

Best for MP3 or JPEG: Toshiba SD-2900 or Samsung 5-disc changer. I ended... Read more