GE DGE100N  DVD Player
Decent video, great price.   Rated down for MP3 handling.
Purchased product at [store].   I am using this unit with an eight year old 31\\" dirct view TV made by Mitsubishi (4:3, no high def).<br />Exterior appearance of the DVD player is very clean.  Remote control lacks backlight, but is well laid out and comfortable to hold.  Good video quality, especially at [money] price point.<br />Very impressive reading of MP3 and JPEG files on homemade CD-R's. This machine was able to read discs that several Toshiba, Philips anad Panasonic units were unable to read.  However, the user interface for non-DVD features is disappointing:<br />-- Unit only displays the first 11 characters of MP3 and JPEG files.  Since most of my files names have 40 characters or more -- they include the artist and song title -- this restriction made it difficult for me to navigate my files.<br />-- Unit does not support 'random play' or 'play lists'.  This makes the unit inflexible during parties or for background music.<br />-- When you want to play, say, song 24, you must press 0-2-4 on the remote.  If you press 2-4, the unit plays song 2, then jumps to song 4.  This operation frustrated me.<br />This unit can also display JPEG files.  I found this feature exciting; it let me see pictures taken with my digital camera on my TV (after I burned them to a CD, of course).  High resolution files loaded quickly, but they flickered a bit on my screen.  I don't know if this was due to the DVD player or my TV or my interconnects (S-Video).  <br />Like MP3 files, JPEG file names are restricted to 11 characters.  This was less of an issue for me, though.  Generally I view images as a slide show without jumping from picture to picture.<br />My opinion: if you only want to watch movies and have a non-HD setup, this machine offers great value and good performance.  If you demand flexible audio controls or have a large collection of homemade MP3 discs, this user interface on this unit is limiting.