Pioneer DV-333 DVD Player
Price/performance winner with brillant picture quality
Altough there is no technical info provided here ( probably becasue it's a  new player ), this box meets nearly everything the home-cinema beginner  needs. <br />+Twin-Wave Laser Pickup for CD/Video CD/CD-R playback,   +96KHz/24-bit Audio DAC for superb sound quality, +10-bit Video Signal DAC  for high-quality DVD pictures, +Dolby® Digital and dts® Digital  Outputs,<br />And several outs:<br />+Component (Y, Cr, Cb) Output x 1, +S-Video  Output x 1, +Composite Video Output x 1, +AC-3 Bit Stream/PCM Optical  Output x 1, +AC-3 Bit Stream/PCM Coaxial Output x 1, +Analog Audio Output x  1 <br />So, why not 5 stars? A DV333D ( built-in decoder for 5.1 outputs )  could beat this one; but Amazon price ($249) is fine to go with.