Sony DVP-NS575P/B Progressive Scan DVD Player, Black
It works as intended
I bought not one but two of this units. One happened to be made in Malaysia, the other in China. My impressions are as follows: <br /> <br />It plays home-made DVD's, no problemo. Plus or dash RW, it works fine. Picture quality is fine. I suppose if you got a high-end DVD player, you could get even better quality, but for a low price, the unit works as intended. The screen image isn't low in contrast or low in brightness, it's just right. The remote control has enough features on it that you don't need to go fishing in the on-screen menu to do things after you've inserted a disc. There's a zoom button so thatyou can get rid of most (but not all) of the black bars on the top and bottom of the screen when watching wide-screen movies on a 4:3 TV. But one thing I don't like is that when you do use zoom, there's a bright blue symbol indicating the amount of zoom on the upper right hand corner, and it stays there continuously. I would prefer that it disappear after a few seconds, since I have 4:3 TV's and prefer zooming in so that the movie fills the screen and don't want to see that symbol. Also, when you pause or stop or FF or RW, the audio cuts out (as it should) but there's always a popping sound when the audio cuts out. Since the popping sound occurs with both of my units and they were made in two different countries, it's built into the design. The unit plays JPEG's OK, a little slow going from pic to pic even when you manually advance, but the picture quality is good, actually better in contrast and colours than my 19\\" Sony computer monitor.  <br /> <br />So all in all, a good unit, but I'm still bothered by the zoom symbol being on continuously. Most people still have 4:3 TVs and the tiny sliver of a wide-screen image isn't big enough and being able to zoom in to eliminate the shadaow box doesn't need to have an always-on symbol.