Kenwood 5-Disc DVD Player
Little annoyances really sink this ship!
I was so impressed with my Kenwood home theater (HTB-504) that I thought it would be nice to have the matching DVD player.  I got it as a gift and upon hooking it up, I was initially very pleased as it is a great looking unit with great picture and sound, but then the disappointment came.  First off, there is no standbye mode, which means you have to manually turn the unit on and off by pressing the power button on the actual unit, this is ridiculous.  The remote is the worst I've ever seen.  I thought the remote for my Panasonic DVD was bad, but the Kenwood remote is much worse, poor construction and small buttons make it feel very cheap.  The player does play MP3s which is nice, but there is no random function for MP3s, only CDs.  One nice feature is that there is an onscreen playlist for MP3s upon which you can create a custom playlist, a definite bonus, but the unit display on the the player doesn't give the track#, only the time lapse which makes you have to have the tv on just to see what track it is on.  The fact of picture burn in coupled with no screensaver makes this onscreen feature worthless.  There is a random function for music CDs but it is only within that CD and not across multiple CDs, which makes having a multiple DVD/cd player worthless as I like to listen to music in random order.  Another serious problem with the player is upon watching my first DVD, \\"Scary Movie 2\\", everytime a scene that had multiple  angles came on, an annoying movie camera icon would pop up.  I could not figure out how to turn this \\"feature\\" off as it was not even stated in the manual.  I would call Kenwood as they do have great customer service, but at this point I had already decided to return it.