Panasonic DVD-F85S 5-Disc Progressive Scan DVD Player , Silver
Two big thumbs up!
My wife gave me a 'go get yourself a home theater system' card for Christmas, and - like I do for almost any purchase nowadays - I first spent a lot of time doing 'internet research' and reading buyer's reviews such as what I'm writing right now for Amazon.com.  After much deliberation, I finally settled on getting an excellent speaker / receiver package from Onkyo (the very excellent HT-S760 6.1 system) and for the DVD player I went with this Panasonic F85S.<br />I can't say enough good things this DVD player: the picture is amazing (I'd previously been using my Playstation2 as my DVD player, and there's just no comparison between how much better this DVD player is!), I love the ability to load discs while one is still playing, and - very important to me - the remote control's main buttons are nice and big and overall it's easy to use (I can't say the same about the remote for my Onkyo receiver, but that's why I didn't get the Onkyo DVD player bundled in to the HT-S767 package).<br />Two big thumbs up - I highly reccommend this player to anyone, and the super-slim design REALLY helped me fit this into my not-so-big entertainment center.<br />One word of warning to anyone buying a home theater system though: be prepared to spend a lot of $$ on cables!  The A/V wires that come with the HTiB system and this DVD player are 'good enough', but if you want the better sound and picture (i.e. digital audio, component video) those wires are expen$ive!