Price Paid:  $350.00 from Radio Shack

Summary:
I've used the Panasonic RV-41 DVD player for over a year now, and up 'till recently, i was pretty satified with the picture quality and ease of use.
Lately, the darn thing keeps freezing up for no apparent reason. It will play through a movie once or twice, then it goes on a freezing frenzy, where no matter what you put into it, it goes bananas. That will last for a day or so, then everything goes back to normal. If you can live with it, or if someone has one that doesn't go nuts every oher week, it's a decent player

Strengths:
ease of use; decent picture quality; onboard decoder

Weaknesses:
very picky/touchy as far as DVD/CD condition/quality

Price Paid:  $300.00 from Sears

Summary:
this aint mine, we bought it for my bro, i was impressed, good onscreen menu, can't remember the remote, but Panasonic always makes good stuff, expect for the 27" Tau i was very unimpressed, apparently they rushed to get it out before cristmas and few problems here and there, oh well, they fixed it, returder it a got a 27" JVC I-Art very sweet TV, except the sound sucks but i hardly use it anyway, anyway good DVD player for the money

Strengths:
small, looks cool, 5.1 analogue output for those who need it(bro included)

Weaknesses:
????

Similar Products Used:
Toshiba

Summary:
I sent An e-mail to Panasonic Canada, Their reply (1/8/2002) was that the Panasonic RV-41 is the same as the RV-31 except it has a built in sound decoder. The picture quality is the same.