Ever since I discovered this player in the summer of 2005, I have been highly impressed with how much it met both my normal and oddball demands. As a student of Musical Theatre, Opera, Classical vocal and choral literature, and Jazz and Classical piano, DVD-AUDIO and SACD capabilities are of great importance to me because there are a lot of titles especially in the Classical genre available in these formats. One thing that sets this player apart from the other manufacturers' players is Yamaha's CD UpSampling feature. For those titles which are currently only available on CD and possibly will never be released on DVD-AUDIO and/or SACD, this option converts standard CDs to the quality of DVD-AUDIO. On the Musical Theatre, Opera, and choral side of things, this player is capable of playing both NTSC (North American) and PAL (European) DVDs on corresponding as well as opposite TVs. For certain titles in these genres, the North American editions are either four percent slower in tempo... Read more

I bought one of these from eTailElectronics here on Amazon. Less than seventy bucks shipped. what a great deal and what a great player.
I bought this because I wanted to get into SACDs and DVD-Audio before it completely disappeared......and more importantly , I didn't have much bread.
this is unit is perfect for my needs.
I bought a hand full of SACD discs already and they all sound great. simple to use, its basically idiot proof, I don't even plan to watch movies with it, just play SACDs and any DVD-audio discs I can scrounge up.
Highly reccommended all the way around and you can't go wrong buying from eTailElectronics. good folks, from the heartland.

We like it and it works well. The one thing we don't like is that you have to push the open button 3 times before it actually opens. Not sure of the purpose, but the display shows that it is doing something, so it's not that the button is unresponsive.