Toshiba SD-1200 DVD Player
Thank you Amazon.com!
My wife and I had finally decided to buy a DVD player, but we did not know where to start.  We searched high and low on many DVD player reviews, but eventually made our way to Amazon.Com.  Every site of course points to the  best DVD players being in the $300 to $400 range, but we wanted to stay in  the $200 to $300 range due to our budget.  We were going to go with RCA  because everything else we owned was RCA.  But looking at the reviews, it  seemed that there were way too may problems with their DVD players.  We  finally decided after looking thru Amazon's DVD player reviews to go with  the Toshiba SD1200.  Before we bought it we went down to the local  electronics shop to see it and get a hands on perspective.  The sleazy  salesmen there were telling us that it was a very bad DVD player and we  trying to get us to buy a $400 Pioneer DVD player that had all the fancy  features and sound options.  But we still went with the Toshiba DVD SD1200  and we are very happy with it.  The Matrix plays in the DVD player just  fine as with any other DVD's we have.  The sound just jumps out at us even  with our small home stereo system we have.  This DVD player is great and  has all types of features we never knew it really had.  I have had no  problems playing any type of DVD's and even rentals.  Although I clean the  rentals with a cleaner before I put them into the DVD player.  The DVD  player boasts a zoom feature that is pretty neat, but when you zoom the  picture starts looking like a VHS picture, so it is not too effective.  You  don't have the optical outputs, but I have heard those come loose easily.   You get S-Video, composite and traditional RCA out, although if you use the  RCA out, what is the purpose of buying a DVD player?  Use the Composite or  S-Video, or you will be missing some of the big picture.  Did I mention the  sound was incredible?  We have a small Sony Mini Stereo System and the  sounds screams at us even through our outdated stereo hardware.  I canonly  imagine with fear what the sound will be like when we upgrade to a Mini  Home theater system, we will more than likely get kicked out of the  apartment complex.  One last thing, this DVD Player is the best first time  buyer (that's me) I have found where you want to keep your within your  budget.