Philips DVD727 Progressive-Scan DVD Player
Excellent  DVD player, poor CD player, suboptimal interface.
This DVD player rocks.  I've played VCDs & DVDs (all regions) and they play flawlessly. Picture quality is excellent, and it's not as fragile as some of the other players I've owned when it comes to dealing with old, scratched, unclean disks. The interface could've been better.  If the DVD player is switched off, pressing the eject button has no effect.  When I press eject, I expect the player to switch iself on and eject the disk.  The remote is not very well layed out and especially hard to operate in dark.  The MP3 selection screen could have been a lot more useful. One definite negative is the quality of sound reproduction from CDs and MP3s. There's perceptible distortion.  I am not a purist audiophile, but I can't tolerate CDs on this unit.  However, the soundtrack on DVDs and VCDs is just fine. I also recently noticed that the unit does \\"frame-freezes\\" when playing DVDs written with iPhoto.  These DVDs play fine elsewhere. For the price, these are small quirks. As a pure DVD player, the unit is hard to beat.