Philips Magnavox DVD611AT DVD Player
A solid investment
Making the move from laptop to 27&quot; TV DVD has been a thoroughly enlightening experience.  This entry level Magnavox player does the job...it played The Matrix and Sleepy Hollow without a hitch.  It froze on one movie, until I cleaned a highly used  rental disk with dishwashing liquid and hot water, taking the oily fingerprints off it and allowing it to play smoothly.  Sound is ravishing, even without the S-video and digital audio hooked up (my old Sony TV doesn't have such connections).  And what a price, esp. with the coupons available these days.