Excellent picture quality with original and DVD-R DVD's. Very good sound when used as CD player

Very weak remote control (but it's ok for $200. everything else is worth it)

In the past month I have been looking for a DVD player that can play DVD-R/CDR, have good picture quality, decent options and proced under $500. I have returned several Sony DVD players - they were absolutely unacceptable. All of them gave C:13 errors more or less often when trying to play DVD-R ( i have a lot of them). On a few models that played DVD-R (intermittently) the picture quality was quite poor with certain compression types used on DVD-R. With Onkyo DV-SP501 I had no problems playing any of my DVD-R and the picture quality is excellent. I liked the setup options that it has, not top notch but very good for the $200 paid. I use Monster coax connection to the Sony receiver and the CD sound quality is by far better than of any DVD players that I tried. Haven't tried mp3's or windows media as I am not interested. We'll see how this thing works on the long run (only had it for 3 days) but so far I am very pleased with this DVD player.

Similar Products Used:

Various Sony and Panasonic DVD players

Great picture Great Sound Easy setup

slight layer change pause, but thats normal for this price

This is an great dvd player that is everything I could ask from a DVD player in this price range. The picture and sound quality are both fantastic.

Similar Products Used:

onkyo, sony, and pioneer