Harman Kardon DVD 31 Progressive-Scan DVD Player
Decent image quality
I have had this for a month now and am slightly disappointed in it. I bought this to replace my XBox, which had the sharpest image I had ever seen in a DVD player (with the added Monster component cables and on an Sony HDTV). My first buy was a $60 Panasonic with Philips component cables, which was nowhere close to the XBox. I had to take it back and decided to spend more to get DVD 31. <br /> <br />While the image quality is better than the under $100 Progressive DVD players, this is nowhere as clear and sharp as the XBox. I bought the best Monster cables I could get, thinking image would improve (DVD 31 comes with an S-Video cable), but - while there is a small improvement - it still is not crystal clear. Weird thing is that I had better quality with my XBox - which it is impossible to have had a better DVD player. I thought it is in the cables, but it turns out XBox still is better. Either that or the combination XBox / Sony HD works better. <br /> <br />One other thing that does not work too great is the remote control. I never imagined I would see a poor design for a remote, but this is exactly that. Text is gray on a gray background, so it is impossible to see. It has too many buttons - really, do we need different buttons for On and Off? You have 2 special buttons for playing pics, instead of just using arrows! Spent half an hour to figure out which one is the MENU button: it is called OSD (On -Screen Display?)! You cannot access the MENU at any time! Basic functions are mixed up on a radial menu, that has both useful and useless buttons mixed together. It looks to me like they could cut the size of this remote in half and still keep all the functions. <br /> <br />These complaints aside, I would say this DVD player is still worth buying, because of all the options it packs. And unless you  experienced better quality before, most likely you will like this DVD player, because the image is definitely better than average. If you have an HDTV, I would recomment getting the Monster cables though, for a quality improvement worth the investment.