Samsung DVD711 DVD Player
Great Player for the price
I purchased the Samsung DVD711 DVD player exactly One Year Ago, and I have had no problems, with skipping, with dirty discs not playing, with it reading CD-R's, CD-RW's and MP3's (even though the book says it can't).<br />I currently own about 40 DVD's myself and my father owns around 200, and ALL, I repeat ALL of them, from the Matrix, to Gladiator, to X-Men work wonderfully. I am using the S-Video connection and regular RCA left and right channel audio to a Toshiba 27 inch TV.<br />The features on it are incredible, the screen saver is excellent for projection screens so that you don't burn the screen, the zoom feature works great and so do all of the other features.<br />I did experience a problem with skipping, and not playing 2 Layer DVD's, about 6 months ago, but the problem was easily solved when I change the internal setting of the view from Letterbox to 4:3 Pan and Scan. This only stopped the player from also adding a black bar on the top and bottom, it still played Wide screen DVD's in wide screen.  I figured out that that feature takes much out of the system when using Dual layered DVD's and isn't needed when watching movies that are already in wide screen format, but works great on the ones that are only Pan and Scan. <br />But as the saying goes there is always on orange in a basket of lemons.  All I can tell you is that my Samsung DVD711 works great.  Yet if you want a great dvd player and you own an Xbox, spend the money for the DVD Kit and you will get a great Progressive scan DVD player, which does almost everything the Samsung DVD711 does, plus more.