GE GE1101P DVD Player
Decent MP3 playback
I read good reviews about GE1101P and decided to buy one. However, I bought another model, GE5803P, instead. The only difference between the two models is that GE5803P has a 3-disc changer and is slightly smaller in size. <br />I enjoyed it a lot, especially its MP3 playback. It recogonizes the directory structure on an MP3 disc, displays it on the TV screen, and allows you to jump from directory to directory. I heard the players from some other brands would flatten the structure and force you to wander about hundreds of files. I had a problem with some MP3 files, but figured out how to fix it later. This player plays MPEG1 LAYER III, but not MPEG2 LAYER III. However, it was not a big problem. From my experience, one can easily convert an MPEG2 file to MPEG1 by changing its sample rate. The lack of a shuffle function for MP3 files does not bother me much, because I wouldn't want to hear songs randomly selected from hundreds anyway.<br />The player is not without any shortcomings, though. It stops half way when it plays some DVDs and I have to power cycle it and jump to the track after the one where it stopped. It is also quite slow in loading. The random play mode seems faulty: it plays only a subset of the tracks and repeats some of them, instead of doing a full permutation.<br />Overall, I highly recommend it to anyone who is not a perfectionist.