Toshiba SD-3990 Progressive Scan DVD Player
very good divx player, and outstanding prog-scan player
Many people are bashing this player because it requires a composite connection for the initial setup.  It's lame, but once you set it to prog-scan, it will stay that way.  So don't let that dissuade you from an excellent deal.<br /><br />As a straight DVD player, this player excels.  It has an absolutely brilliant progressive picture, with rich colors, and no prog-scan artifacts whatsoever.  There are also a couple of nice digital touch-up controls, sharpness and brightness which can come in handy to boost dark images.<br /><br />As a DIVX/Xvid player, also excellent.  Highly compatible with divx 4/5 and vxid, not at all with divx 3.11 or ms mp4 v2 - according to my testing.  plays ac3 audio on these files too.  Interesting problem with divx subtitles.  Very compatible, yet places them in the middle of the screen, which is weird, but oddly workable.  The menu system for avi files is intuitive, but only captures the first 16 characters of the filename.<br /><br />As a dvd-r player, it's also solid.  It has played all media I've thrown at it (-r, -rw).  The only problem is that it's picky about flaws.  In fact, I have dozens of labeled dvd-r's which will break-up and not play past a certain point.  unfortunate, but after I removed the labels (not an easy process) they played to the end.<br /><br />Now for my favorite feature, the coup de grace: auto aspect-ratio.  I have a 16:9 set.  When I enable this feature (default), anamorphic titles will fill the screen, 4:3 titles will be in the middle (though zoomed in ever-so-slightly) and non-anamorphic letterbox titles will be zoomed in to fill the width of the 16:9.  It makes this adjustment for dvd and divx content.  And it gets it right 95% of the time - the other 5% you can adjust manually.<br /><br />I purchased the Toshiba after tiring of the shortcomings of my Philips dvp642.  I haven't looked back