CyberHome CH-DVD 300B Progressive-Scan DVD Player , Black
Great player for the money
This player is extremely good for the money.  I have used a lot of players and can tell you, you won't get this combination of features for so cheap otherwise.  It sounds as though Cyberhome may have some quality-control problems, but I've gotten three CH products and have had no trouble so far.  Some notes:<br />(1) This player can be made region-free very easily - if you follow the simple instructions at [...] you'll have a good region-free player in about ten seconds.  My wife has a lot of Region 2 (PAL British) discs and they play beautifully in this unit.<br />(2) I hear a lot of people complaining about this black &amp; white issue, only to hear that they're connecting their A/V cables (composite video- yellow/left audio - white/right audio-red) to the component connections (Luminence - green/chrominance[b] - blue/chrominance[r] - red)!!!  Now obviuosly it's not the fault of the manufacturer if people don't understand that the cable colors need to *match* the colors of the connectors or else it won't work correctly!!!!  Cyberhome is not responsible for people who don't understand how to wire things but don't read the documentation.<br />(3) There are occasionally discs that this player has trouble with - I've found it has a low tolerance for dust and scratches on the discs, and that some very old discs give it some trouble.  However, I've found nothing that it simply won't play; generally ejecting the disc, cleaning it and reinserting fixes the problem.<br />Anyway, it's a great player for the money.  It certainly won't stand up against a player with a more advanced video D/A converter; if you want a Denon DVD2200 but don't want to spend the $600 you're likely not to like this player.  But if you're looking for a good, cheap player with some nice features, this is it.  READ THE MANUAL and/or MATCH CABLE COLORS and you'll not be disappointed with this little player.