Pioneer DV C503 - DVD changer - black
A fantastic machine!
This is a fabulous DVD player!  I have had it for about 9 months now, and I have had no problems whatsoever!  The sound is great.  The picture quality is fantastic!  It's easy to set up the first time out of the box and has more advanced settings for the hard-core entertainment system lover.<br />A huge plus for me is the ability to program across chapters between DVDs.  For those of you who are scratching your heads, wondering why anyone would want to do such a thing, let me explain:  For those of us who choose to exercise at home,the DVD medium offers the opportunity to mix and match sections of various DVDs to customize our workouts.  When you do the same videos day in and day out, you can get tired of them.  Or there may be times when what you want in that day's workout just doesn't exist on a single video.  Mixing and matching allows you to get exactly the workout you want each and every time, assuming what you want is available on DVD.  Want to do abs at the end of your cardio but the workout doesn't have them?  No problem!  You can tack the abs from another workout on without any tiresome fast forwarding or rewinding.  Short on time?  Why not program a workout where you do the warm up, 1 of the 3 sections, and then the cooldown? Can't decide who you're in the mood to workout with?  Do a section or 2 from each of your favorites!  Again, so FF or REW required.  Having this feature available is a huge plus, and is the reason I ultimately chose this particular machine.<br />I did want to correct a previous reviewer who said that the 503 only has 1 FF speed, and it requires a 30 second jump. There actually are 3 FF speeds.  None of them are a nice, smooth, frame-by-frame FF, it's true, but certainly enough so that you CAN find the spot you're looking for.<br />My one and only complaint about this machine is the remote.  The buttons are small and the layout is not intuitive for me.  It did take me a little bit of time to learn the positioning.  But that's a small price to pay for such a great DVD player!  :-)rice to pay for such a great DVD player!  :-)