JVC XV-D723GD Progressive-Scan DVD Player, Gold
Great while it worked...
I bought my Mitsubishi Widescreen TV in 1999. I had a regular Sony dvd player for the next 2 years. I decided to go progressive in 2001 and purchased this unit. It was great and had the best picture ever. The full screens were adjusted to be full screen with black bars on the side which didnt bother me, and it kept it progressive. One drawback was the sound button, I believe its the VFP or Audio or something like that. Sometimes you get the movie with no sound or just music, so you have to go and manually set it to Theatre, Action or Cinema sound setting. That is a little annoying, since you figured you last set it so it should stay.  <br /> <br />The biggest problem is after a couple of years, with hardly any use at all, it stops playing after about 30 minutes like a previous reviewer mentioned. It starts garbaging and locking up, until it finally just freezes still and theres nothing you can do but shut it off. It looks to me like some kind of overheating problem. I really would like to get this fixed, but Im sure it might not even be worth the price. I paid $299 at the time for this in 2001. It is probably worth $80 nowadays if that. But I have a new Pioneer DVD player now and it is great with all the latest DVDs, except the older ones. The fullscreen ones end up getting 'stretched' and you cant change the settings to correct that. Even some widescreen ones in 2.35:1 get stretched, so you can imagine how ugly it looks, but new DVDs do look awesome.  <br /> <br />On the JVC, it would do all the adjusting for you perfectly. So Im stuck on whether I should get it fixed, and I also hear about the bad JVC customer service.