Toshiba SD-2109 DVD Player
Solid Player
I've had this DVD player for 2 years and have watched hundreds of movies so far.  Its behind in the technology curve now, but its reliability and quality are good indicators of the whole Toshiba line.  I'm particularly impressed with the picture quality when matched to my Toshiba television set using the compositve video outputs - significantly better than the standard coax output and S-video output.  The one down side is that it doesn't play any VCD format disks.  My goal was to convert all my 8mm video to VCD format so that I could play them in my DVD, but I was unsuccessful.  After scouring web sites I found that the Pioneer DVD players seem to provide the best support for playing all the diffent DVD formats, so that's what I'll probably buy in the future.  However, if you're looking for a solid entry-level player - this one is it.