Toshiba SD-5970 DVD Player with HDMI
Great Picture, Poor Functionality
We purchased this DVD player four months ago and have had countless issues with the functionality.  During movie playback (if it will even load the DVD in the first place), the DVD will lock up for no reason.  It basically freezes like your computer does.  You have to turn the DVD player off and you're lucky if you can get it to even read the DVD after that.  The issues we've been having with DVDs aren't even on older DVDs that we've had for a while--in fact, we just loaded a brand new, never been played, just taken out of the plastic wrapping DVD and the DVD player won't even read it.  We loaded it into our older DVD player and it played without any issues.  Furthermore, you have to hold the remote about three inches away from the DVD player for it to work half of the time.  The picture quality from the HD up-convert is fantastic, but it's really not worth the hassle considering you won't be able to enjoy it on half the DVDs you own.  It's just not worth the money considering the other viable options currently on the market.