Zenith DVB216 Progressive-Scan DVD Player
Good Picture, Crummy Programming
First off all, the picture quality is great.  I'm using it with a 27&quot; JVC TV.  I've tried it with component and S-video, and the S-video looks better (contrary to what I expected).  I have yet to see artifacts, even in fast action scenes.<br />The down side is a pretty big one in my opinion.  Apparently, the engineers neglected to test movies that have multiple languages in them.  For example, the movie Ronan is an English language movie where some of the characters speak French.  So, naturally, you would want English subtitles for the French parts, and then go back to no subtitles for the English, right?<br />Too bad.  When the subtitles come on for French, they stay on for the rest of the movie, if you don't turn them off in the DVD menu.  So you turn them off, and the next time someone speaks French, viola [see there it is], English subtitles ever after. [English subitles ever after.]  It's terribly annoying.  [It's terribly annoying.]<br />I played the same DVD on my computer's DVD player, and the subtitles worked fine.  I've tried other movies with multiple languages like XXX... same thing.<br />Zenith customer service says that's &quot;the way it is for that model.&quot;  Funny, I don't remember reading that in the feature specs before I bought it.