Panasonic DVD-RV30 DVD Player
Close but not perfect.
I've had this model for about two years now and generally I am fairly satisfied with its quality. So far I haven't had any major problems and it worked just fine. It plays all different kinds of DVDs without a glitch (including Matrix). <br />Nice clean interface, many features... You will not go wrong with this unless......<br />The reason why I give 4 stars instead of 5 is because of its lack of coaxial digital output. Recently I bought SONY home theatre system and this one has RCA jack and a coaxial input for DVD and RCA+optical for TV. The problem is both my TV (SONY Trinitron) and DVD use optical output for surround sound. <br />I understand that for most people 1 optical and RCA output for audio are adequate enough but for those who want to set up a home theatre system, try to get one with coaxial instead because that's the standard method of delievering surround sound for DVD players. Most home theatre system has only one optical and several coaxial. <br />If you don't care about the above, it's a good DVD player.