Philips DVP642 DivX-Certified Progressive-Scan DVD Player
Great Value
Picked this player up, and contrary to a few reviews I've seen around it DOES play dvd-r discs. I've played ritek, fuji, and tdk dvd-r discs burned at 4x with no problem. I have not tried dvd-rw. It takes a sec or two longer to load discs than my other player, but for $69 with xvid and divx playback and the ability to enter a code via the remote to enable region free playback you can't go wrong (look around online).<br />My unit was set to component output by default and was black and white when i first turned it on using s-video, just change the output in the setup and it'll be normal for s-video use.