Pioneer DV525 DVD Player
Excellent picture and features, and plays CD-Rs!
I have been doing quite a bit of research on what DVD player to get. After looking into a sorts of different brands and I came down to two: the Sony S330 and the Pioneer DV525. For those of you who are not familiar with Pioneer, they were the leaders in developing laser disk players. So DVD is  something they know very well. Both have pretty much the same features and  picture quality is fantastic (even with RCA connectors). They thing  that ended up selling me on the Pioneer is that it will play CR recordable  media like audio CD and video CDs. That is a big deal to me because this  DVD player doubles as my CD player. I have a lot of CD-Rs with rare music  on them. The Pioneer performs flawlessly, no glitches of any kind. I was  very pleased. As for the sound quality of the Pioneer I would not be able  to say because all the sound is going through my Yamaha receiver. I  definitely recomend getting a dedicated audio receiver to do audio decode  (DolbyDigital, DTS). It makes all the difference in the world. If you plan  on getting a receiver Yamaha is the only way to go. My only gripe is that  the buttons on the remote are too small.