Toshiba SD-5980 Progressive Scan DVD Player with HDMI Output
No award winner, but does the job
Followup 11/07 --------------<br />Still going strong, but seems to have developed an annoying habit of going to sleep. In the middle of playing, suddenly playback stops and the blue Toshiba screen saver screen comes up. Hit play and we're off and running again. Never happens more than once per DVD and not on every or the same DVD.<br />-----------------------------<br />I got this because it had a great price/feature tradeoff. I needed an HDMI-type player for a Samsung DLP TV. It works well for this, but does have it's quirks. The most annoying is the occasional glich when changing chapters in the DVD program - a momentary freeze frame, then it moves on.<br /><br />Playing still images from a card (SD in this case) is kind of a joke, especially when the files are larger (7 MP camera) - it seems the machine needs a faster processor and a better algorithm for reducing to the display size. Anyway, I didn't buy it for that - but thought I would try it for fun.<br /><br />As a DVD player it's decent, especially if you need HDMI and have a TV capable of 720p or 1080i resolutions. Like another reviewer,  I found that it took awhile to get it dialed in to both the TV and AV receiver but once set, it's a capable player.<br /><br />This is the 4th Toshiba player I've had and the only problem I've had is the first one (new in 1999) died after a LOT of use after nearly 5 years. I'm sure my next player will be a Toshiba.<br /><br />Followup: Sorry Toshiba -  going to Blu-Ray I have become a Panasonic fan!