Philips DVD825AT DVD Player
An excellent choice at a great price as well
After looking at several different models (Sony, Toshiba, RCA,etc...) under the $300.00 price range the Phillips finally won out.My Dad has the Toshiba SD1200 and constantly complained about the difficulty in setting up his DVD but we had the Phillips setup within 5 minutes.  The Phillips came with the required audio/video cables(although no S-video cable)so there is no need to buy them.  The freeze frame and frame advance quality are superb and this bad boy even plays CDs and CD-Rs as well.  There are a couple of downsides if you want to call them that.  There is no S-video cable that comes with the Phillips and that is almost a necessity.  The controller that comes with the Phillips is small and somewhat akward to use.  However those were the only two problems that I noticed with the player itself.  We watched several movies over the course of the last couple days and experienced no problems with skipping or any type of sound problems at all.  Overall this is a great DVD player and if you have small hands than the controller shouldn't pose any problems.