Sony DVP F41MS - DVD/digital photo playback system
Amazing DVD Player!!!
My beautiful wife surprised me with the Sony DVP-FP41MS this Christmas and I love it.  <br />For AUDIO JUNKIES, the MP3 playback is a great feature, but there are lots of DVD players that will do that now.  It's great for us because it means I can burn an MP3 cd and play it in the house, in the car and in my laptop at school.  If you go all the way and run the audio outs to your home stereo like most folks do now, you will appreciate how much more fun cleaning the house is once you can put in ONE SINGLE MP3 MIX cd and CRANKING IT UP while doing your chores.  Swiffering the living room was never any fun until you had the soundtrack to your life going in the background  <br />For PHOTO JUNKIES, the most amazing feature is is the PHOTO playback, both TIFF's and JPEG's.  I love that we can now just slip in a photo CD-R or CD-RW and sit on the couch and scroll through the memories.  The F41MS even has a rotate function so you no longer have to rotate your photos before burning them to a cd, which will probably save you enough time every year to get out and take enough pix to fill up a few more cd's per year with enough memories to give you plenty of warm fuzzies in your golden years. <br />Oh, yeah, for the DVD junkies who might actually get around to watching a DVD with it, the performance is amazing.  It works great as a plain jane, simple old DVD player, as well.  It has many functions that we have come to expect in a high end DVD player today, such as angle and subtitle, for the xenophiles among us.  The remote is small and will work with most TV's, so you can eliminate one existing remote, which is a gift from the gods of remote controls (oh, thank you, wife-of-mine, for that precious extra 4 sq. inches of coffee table space).  <br />For BEAUTY JUNKIES, those of us who appreciate finding beauty in useful tools, you will quickly appreciate how well function follows form in most Sony products, but especially so in the DVP-F41MS.  It looks arrestingly futuristic filedin your entertainment center standing as a bookend beside your DVD collection, seeming more like a shiny schoolbook from the year 2040 than simply a DVD player.  Be very aware that the beauty of this machine also works against it in some situations, like those involving children.  Because it looks so great and is shiny kids REALLY want to touch it.  You can't blame them, everyone wants to pet this babydoll.  Something takes over there bodies and tells them that this must be a great toy, which it is for GROWN FOLKS, so they MUST TOUCH IT, which makes everyone nervous.  Suffice it to say that, like all Sony products that I have dealth with, the F41MS is pretty durbale. <br />All in all, the BEST MULTI-FUNCTION DVD player out there.  In this day and age YOU DON'T HAVE TO HAVE A DVD PLAYER, BUT IF YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE ONE, YOU MIGHT AS WELL HAVE THE MOST BEAUTIFUL ONE MADE YET!!!<br />If you want a very capable, extremely beuatiful DVD player but don't really want the ability to bore your friends and relatives with thousands of photos at a time, then you could go for the less expensive Sony PSYC or the Sony DVP-F25 for considerably less.