Lasonic DVD-7050 DivX-Certified Progressive-Scan DVD Player
Undocumented feature on player
Generally a good DVD player. <br />Instruction manual is lacking a bit, but there's one nice feature that I found that is never mentioned anywhere in the manual, and it works both on normal DVDs as well as when playing Divx files. If you press the blue -> key, it will instantly skip ahead about 15 seconds, and if you press the blue &lt;- key, it will instantly go back about 15 seconds. Great feature if you missed something, just press the blue &lt;- key once and instantly you're about 15 seconds before where you just were. There's no mention of this on the manual, but when you do it, the on screen display says \\"INSTANT REPLY\\" and \\"INSTANT SKIP\\". Nice little feature that is different than the scanning-within-the-track feature. Another undocumented feature: when using Smart Navi to scroll down the list of various Divx files, if you press the DISPLAY key over a highlighted file it will give you information about the file (date created, size, video codec used, etc). One minor glitch: normal DVDs are no problem, but when playing Divx files if you want to turn off the on-screen display you do so by pressing the DISPLAY key a few times. However that freezes the LED panel on the unit itself in the \\"time remain\\" mode (no big deal). If you immediately press STOP and then PLAY again though, it'll change the LED panel to just the track number (1, 2, 5, etc) instead. This is a minor quirk, has nothing to do with the on-screen display, only the panel time display while playing Divx disks when you want the OSD off. You can of course press DISPLAY key numerous times to cycle through the various informations (time elapsed, time remain, etc). I agree with other poster, I've had trouble with just a few of my Divx files, but most of them play really nicely, and the price certainly is right.