Panasonic DVD-CV51 5-Disc DVD Player
Great DVD and CD player
I am almost totally satisfied with this player!  I love the DVD picture and the CD sound is great.  It has a couple extra features that other DVD players don't have.  One of the best is that the \\"search\\" mode has four different speeds.  You press the forward button once and it begins to scan forward slowly and each time you press the button it scans faster.  The fourth level scans by chapter.  I never really appreciated this until I used my brother's $800 DVD player and it had only one search speed!  Wow, that is annoying!  So I gained a whole new appreciation for my DVD player!<br />My only negative comments are minor things...  When I listen to music, I stick five CDs in the player and stick it on random and let it just shuffle through all of the CDs for the next couple hours.  Well, this \\"random\\" setting will only randomly play the tracks on one CD at a time.  So I've ended up keeping my old 5 disc player hooked up too and I use that most of the time for music.  But while this is major for me, I list it as only a minor problem because it is more about my preference for how I like to listen to music.  Another minor problem is that when the player is powered on, it instantly starts to read the current disc.  This is a problem because usually when I'm powering the system on it I am going to change the discs in there.  So this adds a few seconds that I have to stand and wait for it to read the current disc and then I can open the tray and swap them out.  Again, minor but irritating.  Finally, my last comment is just that the instruction book could be more detailed.  This is my first DVD player and I had some trouble understanding all of the controls.  Part of this may have been my lack of familiarity with how a DVD player works, but the instructions didn't do much to help me with that problem!<br />But, despite all of that, I'm very happy with this DVD/CD player.