Philips DVD724AT Progressive-Scan DVD Player
Poor CD sound quality
I tried this unit for one day before returning it. The sound was utterly terrible, and not for any obvious reason indicating a defect. It was muddy, and seemed quite distant. I looked at the specs, and they are quite poor regarding signal to noise ratio (80 db while a good player can attain 100+ Db) and some other items, indicating that the digital to analog converter in this unit is very cheap and low grade. Maybe if you use the coax digital output you'll do great. But not if you are plugging this thing into an old fashioned amp and using its built in converter.         I did like the 5.1 analog outputs since I don't have a modern receiver, but I am sure the sound coming out would be crap, so why bother.