Panasonic DVD-RV30 DVD Player
Close but not perfect
The Panasonic DVD RV-30 is the first DVD player I havepurchased.The player was easy to setup and run.  I spent a lot of time reading reviews, not only from Amazon but other websites.  I was looking for a good entry level DVD and the RV-30 and Sony's 360 models were the two having the least problems of the low end models.<br />Setup was easy and the manual was complete (Yes, I do read manuals).  I did spend quite a bit of time searching for a specific item of information in the manual, but again, it is very complete.  <br />I found the video and audio to be as expected.  The picture looks extremely good on my 27&quot; Sanyo using a RF modulator bought at Radio Shack specificly designed to connect DVD players to older style TVs.  I don't have RGB connectors on the TV.  I patched the yellow video cord from the DVD player to the RF modulator and coaxial from the modulator to the TV.<br />The sound goes to a receiver with digital decoding using the optical output from the DVD player to the receiver.  The receiver does all the work and does it well.  I'm sure the RV-30 is helping but the receiver does most of the work, and the sound is excellent.<br />Now the reason for 4 versus 5 stars.  At about 1 hour 16 minutes to 1 hour 24 minutes into a movie, all the DVDs I have played skipped.  They only skipped once but skip they did.  Before this time period and after the time period has passed, no skipping.  I'm at a loss but am going to continue to use the machine to see if this unique problem goes away or maybe occurs only on certain DVDs.  It could be a dirty disk surface (all the DVDs I've played are rentals) but I'm just not sure.<br />Other than this one problem, everything is perfect.<br />Oh, by the way, I read other reviewers of DVD players talking about how long it takes the players they own to respond to remote control commands.  Whats this all about?  This unit responds very quickly to remote commands.  By the time I find the button, press it and look up at the TV screen, the command has taken place.  I guess some people have very, very quick eye to hand coordination[...]