Toshiba SD-5980 Progressive Scan DVD Player with HDMI Output
Usability problems
You would think that for an expensive player, they would spend a little effort making sure the thing was easy to use.  First, to even get it to play using the HDMI cable, you initially have to hook it up to your display using component cables, go into the DVD menu, adjust its output to HDMI, and then hook up the HDMI connection.  Otherwise you just get a blank screen.  It took me hours to figure out because the manual didn't say anything about it.  Second, the tray that holds the DVDs is horrid - the sides have no cutout, so it is tricky to take the disks out.  And the HDMI output is always stretched to widescreen - which is terrible because many of my DVDs are 4:3 TV series.  It's hooked up using component cables right now (which look as good as HDMI anyway). <br /> <br />The player also has the neat feature of pausing or even crashing at the most exciting parts of movies.  I'm sure it took some brilliant engineering on Toshiba's part to pull off.