Pioneer DV525 DVD Player
Looks Good, Sounds Good
I've had mine for a few weeks now and must say that it is a great performer, especially for the price. It plays CD's and DVD's extremely well without making you pay for unnecessary &quot;bells and whistles.&quot;  <br />The build quality is pretty typical of what you'd expect for an  inexpensive player. The buttons feel light but ok, while the tray is a  little bit noisier opening and closing than I'd prefer, but tolerable. The  remote buttons ARE small and close together, but the player works fine with  my universal remote (since I used the DVD remote to set the player up, that  is.)<br />I use the digital output (copper, not fiber) for CD and DVD audio  and the component video outputs. The picture is very crisp, and the sound  is very clean and dynamic. My CD's have never sounded better.<br />My only nit  is that the Scan feature for DVD's (i.e. scanning forward or back while  watching in order to get to a particular scene) is a bit  &quot;clunky.&quot; It either crawls along, hardly faster than normal play,  or else races so fast that you pass the scene you were looking for. This is  the only thing that my VCR does better (it's seek speed is adjustable from  the remote). Scanning audio CD's works well.