Panasonic DVD-S35K Ultra Slim Progressive Scan DVD
A Must-buy Bargain
SEE UPDATE BELOW. I've used my trusty ol' Panasonic A-110 DVD Player (circa 1998) for years and have been happy enough. I had paid $... for that model. Now comes the Panasonic DVD-S35. What a player! I guess a lot of improvements have happened over the years. From my perspective, this is a bargain. It plays everything but DVD-Audio, including JPEGs and MP3/WMA files, flawlessly. I don't have a DTV, so cannot comment on the progressive scan capabilities. But I have the S35 connected via component video cables to a Sony Wega TV and it looks great. All operations are smooth, quiet and intuitive. A must-buy bargain.<br />UPDATE: One serious \\"glitch\\" I've just found is that this player cannot accurately play back the movie A Bronx Tale. Starting around Chapter 14 to nearly the end, this player introduces badly pixelated scenes, where muptiple squares appear on the image. To eliminate the possibility of a dirty lens, I checked the same model in Circuit City, which showed the same flaw! In comparison, with the IDENTICAL DVD disk, I tried last year's Panasonic RV-32 and the even older Panasonic A-110. They both played the same disk flawlessly. You be the judge.