Panasonic DVD-F65K Super Slim 5-Disc DVD Player
Plays all disks, even DVD+R
I bought this with some reluctance - it was less money than the equivalent Sony player, and didn't specify whether it could play the DVD+R format - in fact it indicated it wouldn't.  But as the Sony player was out of stock, and the day after Thanksgiving deal meant I got this player for only $79.99, I went for it anyway.<br />I was pleasantly surprised to find that all the DVD XCopy backups of my movie collection, in DVD+R and DVD+RW format, played just fine.<br />As for the quality, everything is superb.  I haven't had a single problem with any format of any disk, so I'm not sure why the first reviewer had problems.<br />The sound quality is great, and even though neither my $50 6-speaker home theater kit, nor this dvd player have any sort of Dolby or DTS decoding ability (just some sort of emulation mode), the sound output from the combination of both is nearly perfect, which the correct sounds going to the correct speakers.  Planes sound like they are flying over and past me, etc.  Occasionally I lose some of the center speaker and subwoofer sounds - but this is not surprising considering the cheapness of my sound system.<br />The other features are superb, especially the incremental zoom function - together with the presets, this helps deal with the stupid 16x9 widescreen format that the movie industry has decided to inflict on us - which is the reason we get black bars even on wide screen HD TV's.  Only the original widescreen format movies will fill the screen of a widescreen TV, so why we have to have this butchered format is beyond me.<br />As for the Lord of the Rings comment, both the extended versions of the Fellowship and the Two Towers play without any glitches in my player - however these disks are incredibly delicate.  I was forced to replace the Fellowship after a minor scratch destroyed 50% of disk two, so that no dvd player, Sony, Magnavox, even the PS2 would play it (which in turn was the reason I invested in DVD XCopy, so I no longer run the riskof damaging the original copy of any of my more prized movies).