Sony DVP-NS975V Up-Scaling DVD/CD/SACD Player
Awesome until....
Yes this is an amazing toy, it's pretty, the picture is perfect if you're using the HDMI output, everything about this is good.  Great size, clean look, it's all great.  Then it stops working.  And believe you me, it WILL stop working.  It's a problem with the firmware.  Sony is aware of the issue.  They are still selling the defective units.  They are doing this why?  To charge you to fix the old one!  THE NERVE!  Sony has gone the way of so many companies.  They have lost all my trust, and I'll go out of my way to buy a different companys products if it's feasible.      ****UPDATE****   To explain what I mean by \\"It WILL stop working\\" and \\"It's a firmware issue\\"    This unit has a neat feature.  You pop in a movie...we'll say you're watching The Shawshank Redemption.  Halfway through the movie your buddy/parents/wife whatever comes in and wants to watch something else.  So you eject, pop the new movie in.  It finishes, and they go away.  At this point, you can watch 50 more movies, or go right back to Shawshank, it won't matter when you do it, but Shawshank is going to play from where you left off last.  That's pretty neat.  Now imagine watching ALOT of movies, and always ejecting them after the \\"movie\\" is over, but not the credits.  Each of those will start at the credits until you finally get to the end.  The DvD player stores each of those movies positions until they are played through.  After a certain amount say....200-250 movies stored like that, the player gets full.  It's at THIS point that the player stops working.  Period, it doesn't know what to do with the stored data, and can't add more, so it won't play at all.  That's the issue in a nut shell.  If you buy this player, make sure you ALWAYS let the DvD run until it pops back to the main menu, or eventually you're in this situation.