Lasonic DVD-7050 DivX-Certified Progressive-Scan DVD Player
Great Deal for the Money! Tops in low the cost class...
This unit is heads and shoulders above every other player I looked at in this price class. It is a quality durable unit that actually has some weight to it, unlike so many other cheap DVD players that are lighter than a transistor radio. The playback is very good, and offers progressive scan. It also has a very flexible Set-Up Menu which gives you fine control over the unit. Unlike nearly every other DVD player in this price range (or even over) this player provides full 5.1 audio decode with RCA terminal output, and does optical and digital coax out too. Really amazing for the price. This Lasonic player plays DIVX movies and XVID superbly. I had no trouble playing movies encoded with versions 4.x, 5.x & 6.1.1. It didn't hower play mpeg4 NERO encoded digital movies, but I would bet there'll be a firmware upgrade for this in the future. This unit also passes a simple but telling test that many cheap DVD players fail. If you power the unit off while the DVD tray is sticking out, it will retract the tray first then shutdown. All in all a good indication that some thought was put into the design. <br /> <br />I highly recommend this player. Buy it, you will not regret it! And even if you are as impressed as I was, Amazon's liberal return policy will allow you to send it back. But I doubt you will