Panasonic DVD-F87S 5-Disc Progressive Scan DVD Player
Frustrating, but good sound
The good news; the sound is surprisingly good, and far better than even expensive players from very few years back.  It's darn cheap. It plays many types of discs. There are many useful features, including the dialog enhancer, a setting that lets you \\"recover\\" information lost in the digitization process (not sure I got that right, but that's what the manual seems to say), and a 5 disc changer.  The bad news; it has the single most frustrating, counter-intuitive, and simply poor user interface of any CD/DVD player I've ever seen.  I spend more time swearing at this player than I do in the rest of my day put together. It has many settings, which it forgets when you turn it off!  Very often, it simply locks out options for no apparent reason; I can't get from one setting to the next, and I fail to see the logic. I could go on, but only buy this (or any more modern descendent from Panasonic) if you place $$ far, far above ease of use and overall satisfaction.  I would only recommend this to a complete and utter masochist; I leave mine on 24x7 and avoid switching settings, just so I don't have to drive my self crazy dealing with the poor design.  But the sound is, as I said, quite good.  And it was cheap!  But I certainly would not recommend it for most (any?) people. I intend to give mine to charity and buy something else when I find a newer machine (from someone other than this brand) that I like more.  But it will tide me over until then, so it was probably worth what little it cost in $.