Great Picture, Great Sound

Little Cheapy in design, remote sucks

I have had this unit for about 6 months now and I must admit I am really impressed. Due to Phillips association with Marantz, and since I have a Marantz reciever, I picked one up. It replaced my toshiba that what having a conflict problem with my reciever. The color difference and true detail that the Phillips displays is amazing. The toshiba as well as sony that I have had prior were not even close. And ofcoarse the HDCD decoder is great for cd playback. I stacked the unit up next to an adcom gdcd-700, and you could barly tell a difference!! So if you can get your hands on one of these I would greatly recomend it!!

Similar Products Used:

Sony, Toshiba, JVC

Much Better Picture quality than my former Toshiba and Sony. Progressive Scan and HDCD to boot!!!!

The HDCD decoder is a little weak. Could be a little better made!!!

I have had this unit for about two months now and so far so good. I replaced a Toshiba SD2700 due to a conflict with my Marantz Reciever, and because Marantz and Phillips are CO/products I figured this was my best bet. Also, there are few units on the market w/HDCD decoders, and I did not want to loose this option. The Phillips works great and there are no conficts at all!! The Picture is much better than any DVD player I have owned and the player offers several cool options, especially for the price point. I would Highly recomend this unit to anyone looking for a great player for around $200-$250.

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Toshiba, Sony

MP3 Playback

Everything else but mainly Image Quality.

This is the worse Progressive??? DVD player in the market. Stay away from it. The video quality of my non progressive 955 DVD palyer i better than the Progrssive of this one.

Similar Products Used:

Philips DVD 955