Philips DVP5960 DVD Player with HDMI, 1080i Upscaling, DivX Ultra, USB direct
Great upscaling player for the price
Pros:  - USB input. can play anything right from a USB drive. Can even use your remote to forward, rewind an avi, mpg, divx movie!!  - HDMI output. PQ looks much better using HDMI than using component output. This is probably just b/c component is set so it does not support 1080i and HDMI does.  - Simple Menu & remote. some have complained about the remote and menu saying it makes this dvd player look cheap. I think its great. I had a sony before and always hadto look down at the remote to find the key i was looking to use. Normally you are only going to use the basic buttons of forward, rewind, menu, etc. No extra, unnecessary buttons on the remote. And menu is very simple also and most of the features canbe accessed and changed while playing a move (i.e. change mode from 16:9 to 4:3, etc). The sony DVD player I had before would not allow this.  - Can be made region free  - Great price - got mine for $[...] after a coupon and a rebate    Cons:  - Slow forward/rewind. The speeds go from 2x - 32x (with about 6 intervals in between) but still seems slow to me at the highest. Sony only had 3 speeds but the fastest seemed faster than 32x on this player.  - No DTS. I dont have a surround set up yet but this mightbea problem for some.  - Discs load slow. I think this is an issue with most DVD players that I have seen. I actually compared it with the sony and it takes almost exactly the same time. But one good thing is that the tray opens and closes pretty fast(faster than the sony anyways).