RCA RC5220P DVD Player
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
The Good<BR> I must say I love this DVD player.  The first one I have owned and it playes great.  I use the A/V jacks into a 28 inch Phillips Mag TV and it looks like a movie screen.  I'm so spoilled that I don't even  rent VHS tapes anymore.  I had one problem with a rented DVD (Wag the Dog).   But once I cleaned the disk like the manual says it played perfectly.  The  stero sound is great too.  A quick tip though.   <BR>If you don't have a  receiver and just use your TV for sound, in the system setup choose PCM  sound and high compression for the best sound.  No compression makes you  have to turn the TV up real high in order to hear clearly.   <BR>Make sure  the sound on your DVD player matches the one on your DVD when watching  movies.  I bought The Best Man for my lady and the player was set for Dolby  while the disk was sending DTS.  Result, no sound and 5 minutes of PANIC.   Just match them up again and all is fine. <BR>The Bad<BR> Not being able to  burn your own Audio CDs is a bit of a moan.  But once you  play the Matrix  for the first time you get over it.  I am mad that I can't play burned  Video CDs. Wanted to archive my collection of Kung-Fu movies and tapped  Saturday morning Cartoons.  But in a year I should be able to upgrade my pc  and get a second DVD player for the bedroom so I could do that then.  <BR>The Ugly<BR> All the reports I have heard about the DVD player had made  me kinda scared about my future with the RC5220P.  The review seem to be  about 65% to 35% in favor.  I am almost past the 2 month mark so I will do  a follow up if anything happens.  But so far I am on happy camper.