Toshiba SD-1200 DVD Player
Affordable, but lacks good user ergonomics
The principal point I wish I'd heard before buying this generally excellent player:  You can't play most DVD's without the remote.  So if you've misplaced the remote, no movie.  Most of us just put in the disc and hit play, so one more button (enter) on the player would have made such a difference in convenience.<br />The mentioned remote is itself poorly designed.  The buttons are all small and black and mostly rectangular, poorly revealed by a flat dark surface and even smaller type, whereas most remotes now are multicolored and contoured for comfort.  The DVD's response time to commands is only OK.<br />The single biggest factor in our choice was price, and it plays DVD's fine and hasn't broken in a year.  But for a modicum of effort and minuscule cost Toshiba could have made the player much more pleasurable to use.  If necessary, I would spend an extra [money] to alleviate these noted concerns.