Toshiba SD-2300 NUON DVD Player
AWESOME picture and sound, super ZOOM, and NUON games...
The most impressive feature of Toshiba's SD-2300 is the absolutely GORGEOUS picture it creates on my old 27-inch TV set (with S-video input).  Blacks are black, brights are bright, colors are vibrant.  This player makes even the worst of DVDs look beautiful.  And, of course, the audio (through my TV's speakers) is excellent also.  Another great feature is the ZOOM, which will allow you to make widescreen discs fill the entire screen with minimal loss of picture quality.  Image Capture allows you to create a `wallpaper' of sorts by saving an image from the movie of your choice to display as the player's background picture (sure beats the plain gray or blue screen).  NUON allows you to play video games (like The Next Tetris, which was included with my player) on your SD-2300 either with the remote, or a NUON gamepad (sold separately).  Unfortunately, there are currently only a handful of NUON games on the market, and the graphics are not even close to PlayStation 2's.  Along with all of these good points, however, there are a couple of drawbacks...  I have noticed an occasional minor disturbance in the picture with this player.  On the average of once every other movie played, a small area of the picture will `break up' into little blocks (or `pixels') for just a split second, then return to normal (this does *not* seem to be due to dirt on the discs).  I did some checking, and learned that many SD-2300 owners have experienced this same problem.  Also, two movies I watched suddenly froze for a few seconds (*not* on a layer change), and then continued playing.  These glitches -- IF they occur -- will bother some people more than others.  For me, they are not a big deal when I consider how terrific the picture looks 99.9 percent of the time.