Toshiba SD2805 5-Disc Carousel DVD and CD Player
Beautiful pictures.  Stunning for $100
I've had a string of players with what I imagine are [bad] video decoders; my Onkyo would sometimes just freeze up at one screen for about five seconds, the RCA not only did that, it produced horribly pixelated scene transitions.  The RCA also seemed to put out terribly low audio levels; I had to crank the TV to hear the silly thing.  The American Beauty DVD seems to break on most DVD players.  I was pretty frustrated.<br />Then I got the Toshiba.  For [money], all I wanted was good, smooth, colorful images on DVD and a decent audio output level.  And I got that... this produces the brightest, clearest DVD picture I've ever seen.  The remote buttons are too dang small but then they're ALL too dang small.&lt;grin>  And it plays American Beauty without a hiccough.<br />I didn't want Video CD, SVCD, CD audio, or MP3, and I didn't even care about the DVD changer; they were all gravy for 100 bucks.  I *did*, however, like the changer when watching _24_ on DVD!<br />If you have a cheap DVD player that you hate, throw it away or put it in the kid's room and buy yourself one of these.  You won't be sorry.