Pioneer DV525 DVD Player
Pioneer DV 525 is merely OK
I gave this players every chance before taking it back recently.  I have 5 DVD players and have a very good grasp of features and performance.  The Pioneer DV525 picture is it's downfall in my opinion.  Compared to Toshiba,  Sony, Proscan, Philips and Panasonic the picture appears very dark.  Even  though it offers different setting for cinema, animation and normal there  was little change to the picture overall.  The audio was adequate but not  up to par with other models.  The nice features are CD-R,CD-RW, VCD and  PAL/NTSC playback which is rare among players. Why did it go back?  It  simply stopped reading discs after exchanging it TWICE after only a week of  playing.  The quality is apparently the problem here and may start with  it's very cheap design.  You can do a lot better with a Toshiba product or  the newly released Philips (invented DVD)which have improved dramatically.