Panasonic DVD-A120 DVD Player
This skipping and freezing bug plagues my favorite DVD's!!!!
My most recent purchases &quot;The Matrix&quot; and &quot;Heat&quot; have had nothing but skipping and freezing.  The picture skips around while the audio fads out.  Acts kind of like a VHS tape that has been twisted (the  film inside the tape) until it eventually freezes.  I like Panasonic  products but I wouldn't buy another one of their DVD players for this  reason.  I bought one other for a Christmas present (at the same time I  purchased mine) and it has the same issues.  My roomate has a Sony which I  asked him to play both of these movies and he didn't experience any  problems with both movies.