OPPO OPDV971H Digital HD-Ready Up-Converting DVD Player
Nice player, but too expensive for what you're getting.
I ordered this DVD player upon the recommendation of friends, who said it was a good up-converting DVD player for playing conventional DVDs on HDTV sets.  I think their recommendation was a reasonable one, but probably about 3 years out of date.  For one thing, this player outputs up-converted video only over the DVI interface, which has been largely supplanted by HDMI now (and, on older sets, one may have only component video available).  I wasn't able to use this player on the intended plasma set, which only accepts HDMI, and had to use it on an older set with a DVI input.  A few weeks after buying this player, I also found HDMI capable up-converting DVD players for as little as $79, radically cheaper than this unit.  If I had it to do over, I'd get one of those.    Update:  I've been informed, somewhat to my chagrin, that it's easy to convert from DVI to HDMI (and vice-versa) with a simple, inexpensive adapter (one person quoted $6 USD) since the signaling is more or less identical.   While I still think this player is too expensive when compared with the alternatives, I can't fault it for having the \\"wrong\\" connector in light of this information.