Sony DVP-NS575P/B Progressive Scan DVD Player, Black
Junk.
Stay away from this product if you are buying it for use with a high-definition television. This player has the infamous &quot;chroma bug&quot; or &quot;chroma upsampling error&quot; which results in poor picture quality on a high-definition television. There is blurriness and digital artifacting around the edges of objects on the screen, and it makes movie-watching almost intolerable. The picture quality is similar to watching satellite during a storm, where the signal becomes weak and the picture beomces blocky. At first I though I just had expectations that were too high for the picture quality on HDTV, but my friend hooked up his Hitachi DVD player (it uses a Faroudja chipset) to my system and picture was beautiful..<br />If you're looking for a good DVD player, do some research on players which use the Faroudja/DCDi chipset. Manufacturers are using it less often these days because they want to keep prices competitive, but consumers lose out in the end. You'd think that with the booming number of HDTV sets out there that they would be more committed to making quality products, but they are not.