Sony SLV-D300P Progressive-Scan DVD-VCR Combo
Works Pretty Good
Wow! Was I ever surprised that there are so many negative reviews of this unit.  Of course, did I read the reviews before buying one at Circuit City yesterday?  No.  We bought a new dvd with the player to get an accurate evaluation.  It worked just fine.  Our only question is why doesn't the film show on the whole screen?  Since we have a recorder in our satellite receiver, we probably won't record on the vcr except on very rare occaisions.  We are new to dvd players and we bought the Sony because of the reputation.  We knew that it didn't record dvd's so are unclear about the confusion one reviewer had over that.  We rate ourselves as being techno-minus so if we can operate the stuff and get it to work right, we think that it must be user-friendly.  So far no problems or complaints except for the limited screen display--that could be due to our older tv set?