Samsung DVD-P230 Progressive Scan DVD Player
Nice features, bad picture.
I bought this DVD player to replace my Panasonic RV31 because it had progressive scan out and I just got a new HDTV set, so I wanted to see if there was an improvement.  At $75 at Best Buy, the gamble was pretty low.  <br />The first movie I watched was Enemy of the State.  I liked the EZ View button which can alter the aspect ratio the DVD player puts out so you don't have to alter the TV aspect ratio.  However in the first couple of scenes, there's a picture of the front of a restaurant where there's a black car with silver trim sitting in front.  Immediately I noticed that this silver trim had a very distinct jagged quality to it.  Out of curiousity, I put the disc in the old player, and it played it without any video noise.  <br />I continued to view the movie in the new player, and the video noise was &quot;unsettling&quot; to say the least.  It's almost like when you set a PC monitor to interlaced it was so bad in some spots.  <br />And the final straw was that the player froze on the ending credits like it was starting to overheat.  I brought the player back to Best Buy the same day I got it, and bought a cheap JVC progressive scan instead.  <br />To tell you the truth, I hardly notice the difference between progressive and interlaced.  Maybe the TV is doing a good job of 3:2 pulldown conversion.  <br />Anyway, I would not recommend this player due to poor video quality.