OPPO OPDV971H Digital HD-Ready Up-Converting DVD Player
Great DVD player, highly reccommend!
This may not be the best DVD player available, but it is the best one available at this price! It favorably compaires to $1,000. DVD players and even exceeds them in some areas. Aside from all good technical specs. and functions which you have already read about, I can tell you that their customer support is super. They are very responsive to questions and are quite helpful.<br /><br />I really like that this DVD player is easy to upgrade via firmware updates that Oppo makes available on their website. You just burn it to a CDR on your computer and put it in the Oppo. Few other manufacturers provide added features and bug fixes via updates like Oppo does.<br /><br />I don't agree with those who state that the disc tray is flimsy. While it is made of plastic, who cares? The transport itself seems very sturdy and robust-it moves from play to menu to different sections on a DVD *very* quickly and layer changes on dual layer DVDs are not even noticeable at all. Further, you can't even hear the DVD spinning once it's inside the unit and it plays even rental DVDs that are badly scratched!<br /><br />I am very happy with this DVD player and when they come out with an HD-DVD capabale one, I will be one of the first to buy it. But since they can't get the High Definition DVD format worked out yet (there are two kinds: Blueray and HDDVD), I along with most others will wait it out until one becomes standard.<br /><br />[This player plays regular non HD DVDs and up rez'es them to HD resolutions for your HD television but it does not play the new HD-DVDs]