Philips DVDQ50 Slimline Design Progressive Scan DVD Player
Style Over Substance (and quality)
The picture quality is good except during fast panning even in progressive scan.  A fast pan creates a slight stutter in the image which some may not notice but its there.  A much worse problem is the DVD drives well know &quot;glitches&quot; when playing dual layered DVDs.  Layer changes are slow skip frames.  The worse problem is that the drive will occasionally just stutter during a DVD when there is no layer change at all.  These problems are known by the tech savvy on the web (just do a search) and plague many of the Q50 in US and abroad.  I returned my first one and got a replacement.  It was better but not 100%.  I then found a firmware upgrade which also seemed to help a bit.  The bottom line is that this drive is not worth the hassles at any price.