Pioneer DV-393-S Progressive Scan DVD Player with Div-X
Decent Price, Decent Quality- Finally!
Three times must be a charm.  This is my third purchase of a DVD player in about 4 years.  Without naming the brands of the other two, it's sufficive to say that they were'nt top of the line models but then again they were'nt at the bottom either.  I've always heard of Pioneer electronics and seen them from afar but never purchased any myself until now.  In the past, Pioneer was very \\"high-end\\" and could never really justify the cost difference when there was comparable, less costly products available.  When my current DVD player kept giving me periodic errors and having read various message boards with all the possible causes, I decided to look for a decent brand name DVD Player and maybe spend a little more on it so as to get decent quality.  I was surprised to run across this Pioneer model in the price range that it is.  Being so new, there weren't that many reviews posted for it yet and those that were out there were conflicting.  I went ahead and chose this model and now that I have tried it out I must say that it is everything that I was searching for.  There is a definite improvement in picture quality when compare to my previous player.  With it being Pioneer's lowest cost model, I expected it to be chincy (like Sony's low end stuff) but that's not the case with this unit. Features, although they may be somewhat basic when compared to some of the others out there, are useful and very functional.  Sometimes simple is better.  The main function of the player (providing picture and sound) has to be top notch otherwise all the other bells and whistles don't mean a thing.  This one definitely has that part down pat.  The other features and functions seem to work much better and faster than my previous players.  As advertised, it plays most formats out there or atleast everything that I have.  To sum it up, it's the best DVD player in the price range and even in the next higher price range as far as I'm concerned.  As far as strengths and weaknesses go, I'd have to say it strength is it's overall quality and for it's weakness I can only come up with it's on-screen display- it could stand to take up a little less space on the screen.  Decent price for a decent quality product- FINALLY!