OPPO OPDV971H Digital HD-Ready Up-Converting DVD Player
good features
This is a good dvd player with good features.  Some of my favorites include the ability to adjust the delay in the audio for some really poor dvd's that have a problem with sync.  I have recently watched some poor dvd's.   I love being able to watch divx and xvid movies on my tv screen.  Even the power spectrum meter while playing a cd is nice.  Playing mp3's and showing jpegs is cool too.  Given the right options it automatically adjust the image to fit in your wide sceen tv.  Which means when I put in a dvd with a normal aspect ratio(4:3) it correctly puts black bars on the sides.  I don't have to change this on my tv, like I did with my sony.  <br /> <br />As far as the review saying that it only outputs dvi and not hdmi.  That's bogus they are the same thing and all you need is a converter, or don't buy it here at amazon and buy it directly from oppo and you will get the hdmi cable free.   <br /> <br />I'm very happy with all the features and find it's slim design pleasing.  The quality is the way I like it.  You don't notice it.  Which means you don't notice weird artifacts, you don't notice bluriness, you just get a good lifelike picture that doesn't distract from watching the movie.  <br /> <br />The manual for this dvd player was written by one lazy son of a b*&!  It tells you absolutely nothing you can't figure out yourself.  It will tell you what options are available in the menus, but not what any of them mean.  It's annoying but livable. <br />If it wasn't for the useless manual it would have gotten 5 stars.   <br /> <br />Then again you can figure that stuff out with experimentation.   <br />