CyberHome CH-DVD 500 Progressive-Scan DVD Player
Great product for me
My personal experience with this product has been very good.  I don't watch hundreds of DVDs, but I've never had a problem with any DVD I've tried to watch.  The progressive outputs to my HDTV are very good, especially considering the price.  I don't use the on-board 5.1-channel audio decoder, as I let my receiver decode the digital signal from the player, but that might be a great option for someone with an older or less-expensive receiver that can't do digital decoding, or can't decode a DTS signal.<br />My only complaints are with SVCD playback, which may not matter to a lot of people.  I occasionally record video on my computer and burn it to CD-ROM in SVCD format so I can watch it easily on my TV.  However, sometimes those SVCDs exhibit very jerky playback, and are irritating to watch.  I've learned that by tweaking some of the settings in my video conversion programs, I can minimize or even eliminate the jitter, but I don't need to do that for the SVCDs to play just fine in other players.  In all, that's a very small complaint given the price and other features, but it's why I gave it only 4 stars instead of five.<br />Cyberhome also has provided firmware updates through their website to address some problems with this player.  If you're having trouble with your player recognizing discs or freezing up during playback, you might want to try a firmware update.  Go to [...] .