Sony DVP-NS50P/S Single DVD Player, Silver
Nice Player "For the Money"
For the money, $79, this machine more than delivers for the price.  I've had the player for about three months now and I have three other newer players in the house I can compare it to.  First the goods:    1. It playes just about everything I can throw at it.  It plays my DVD+R, DVD-R, DVD+RDL, SVCD, .jpg, etc.    2. The player has what is called \\"Precision Drive 3\\", meaning it can play pretty trashed disks without skips or distortion.    3. It has progressive scan and a multitude of set-up's for image and sound manipulation to adjust these parameters to you liking.    4. A very nice touch is it can remember where in the movie it left off for the last six disks it played.  In other words you can remove a disk halfway through the movie, watch another movie, put in the removed disk and it takes off right from where you last ended.    The Bads:    1. Very long time to read a disk and prepair it for play after it has been loaded.  This is the case with all disks I have tried, especialy DVD+RDL (but most players can't play this type of disk anyway)    2. Butttons on the unit are very small and incomplete in terms of accessing the players features.  In other words, your in trouble if you loose the remote.    3. Has just a coaxial digital output, if you must have optical look elsewhere.    4. Just plain feels cheapy    Bottom line; I'm picky, but for $79 this player is a bargain.  Great picture and digital output sound quality. Plays just about any kind of disks and most formats.  Most surprizing is it's ability to play my DVD+RDL disks, something only one other machine in my home can do.  Lastly it can play pretty trashed disks with it's precision drive that most of my other players can't.  It only looses the fifth star to the small buttons, the fact that it takes forever to load and start a movie, and if you loose the remote your hosed in terms of accessing the players settings.