Sampo DVE-631CF DVD Player with CF Reader and Photo Playback
Best budget DVD player on the market
This is unquestionably the best budget priced DVD player on<br />the market. Build quality is good. Picture quality is good.<br />Feature list is outstanding: Plays MP3s. Plays \\"burned\\" VCD<br />and SVCD disks. Can display a set of pictures from a compactflash<br />card using the built in compactflash reader (only DVD<br />player in the world with this)...<br />AND then there's the really good stuff: 1) For those with<br />aptitudes for this kind of thing, you can hack this deck<br />to replace the compactflash reader with a hard drive. This<br />turns the DVD player into a DVD player + MP3 jukebox; 2) You<br />can hack the player to turn off Macrovision and to make it<br />region-free (so you can play DVDs from other countries).<br />There are cheaper players on the market, but they all<br />pale in comparison to this one, both in quality and/or in<br />hackability.<br />Unless you are looking for a very high end deck, or a feature<br />like progressive scan (which is one of the few features this<br />deck does not offer), your search should begin and end with<br />this player.<br />Not to mention that as of this writing, Amazon has the lowest<br />price on the planet (as far as I've determined) on this deck!<br />dap