Panasonic DVD-S77S DVD Player
Worthwhile device
I purchased mine in December 05 after carefully reading all the reviews here and a recommendation from Consumer Reports.  The comments about the manual are spot-on but easily overcome.  The only issue I have had are two failures coded on the display as U70-2, which, according to the manual, relate to the HDMI system.  I am using a Panasonic HDMI 32\\" LCD.  I took the player in to Panasonic service who pronounced it fine, nothing wrong with it leading me to believe the problem was with the TV.  Since the TV was only a few months old, I contacted Ultimate Electronics who sent a tech out after about 10 days.  All this time the player continued to show U70-2 and would not play on HDMI but would on RCA cables at 480DPI.  The tech they sentknew nothing about the player but somehow (he did not know how) he got the U70-2 to disappear and play on HDMI. <br />After about a week, the player once again stopped playing in HDMI with the U70-2 code.  After considerable trial and error, I was able to eliminate the error message and get it working.  The trick to that is with a DVD in place in the player, you cannot access that portion of the menu system you need to reset the player.  Taking the disk out allowed the menu system to display the HDMI menu which I was then able to reset.  It has worked fine now for the past month. <br />