Price Paid:  $279.00 from 6th Ave Electronics

Summary:
BOTTOM LINE: This Proscan, believe it or not.Delivers superior picture and sound quality as compared with my $1000 Denon. The colors are very warm and real. The sound is crisp and very unmechanical like my Sony and my Denon. TRUST ME!!! If you are looking for a GREAT picture and good sound and you can if you can find this for under $150, buy it. IT LOOKS THAT GOOD!!!

Strengths:
Stuning picture quality period. At any price! Great sound, you audiophiles will appreciate the warm sound and picture.(You will see what I mean) Ultra-compact size and VERY VERY durable! GREAT bulid quaility!!!

Weaknesses:
Does not support CDR,CDRW,DVDr,DVDRW,SVCD,etc.. EXTREMELY cumbersome CD controls-very slow Slight noise (if inside cabinet it disapears.)

Similar Products Used:
Sony DVP-NS500, Denon(the expensive one)

Price Paid:  $250.00 from Circuit City

Summary:
Good DVD Player to use for movie viewing and with the beating it's taken from being used 6 out of 7 nights a week, surprisingly it still has the same quality as when I bought it and still to this day I have yet to clean the lense, but other than that I do not like it. It does not do everything you can get out of a $100 KLH DVD-Player. I will only recommend this DVD Player to people I do not like or have the money to waste on a second one. Now if anybody has any suggestions as to why I should have two DVD Players hooked up to one television please let me know. As for now I think you can see where the bargain is.

Strengths:
Quite, Slim design, and easy to use

Weaknesses:
Does not support CD-R or CD-RW. I was looking for a DVD Player that supported these formats for my videos I create. I was told by a representative at Circuit City that this product would do that for me. Now that I have had a chance to sit down and make a video cd this DVD Player does not support it. It's just great how I get lied to and lose $250.00 of my money for a product that doesn't do what I want it to do. So now I have to go out and spend at least another $100 for another DVD Player does support computer generated cds and have only one television to hook them both up to.

Similar Products Used:
KLH cheapest model available. This product does support CD-Rs, not sure about CD-RWs as of yet.

Price Paid:  $260.00 from Circuit City

Summary:
After waiting for what seemed a lifetime, I decided to go out and buy a DVD player. I had reviewed a bunch and decided to go with the Sony. I was so disappointed that I quit playing with it after about three days and took it back. I then got the proscan. This player slam dunked the sony and I couldn't quit messin with it. It even plays CD's backwards! The GUI is wonderful, complete with a glossary and more options than some people know what to do with. The sound and picture is excellent and the remote is wonderfully easy to use even without looking for buttons in the dark room (part of it is backlit too). I really have no complaints other than it takes a couple seconds to get to the next song on a CD, but I have a CD player that also plays CDR's. I was extremely surprised to see high quality cables (S vid included) which I am sure help with the quality of the pic and sound tremendously. Gold plating is nice to have too. The samsung was actually better than the Sony in my opinion...it had more options but was a little harder to operate the funky remote. I had this one at the same time as the RCA and took it back after 2 days. I have to give the RCA a 5 due to it's excellent sound and picture quality, along with ease of use, GUI, and remote.

Strengths:
cables, picture and sound, remote, EASY to operate, great GUI, looks good

Weaknesses:
slow performance on CD's, won't play CD-R

Similar Products Used:
Sony that was about $50 more; Samsung that was about $20 less

Price Paid:  $289.00 from circuit city

Summary:
I really have enjoyed this DVD player. It is excellent both video and sound. A surprise that it sounds better than my JVC CD player! A great, great value.

Strengths:
Very good video playback! Optical out, excellent sound, Audio cd's sound great as well. Very good quality. A steal for the money.

Weaknesses:
A little noisy on playback but quite tolerable. The shape is strange. Much narrower than any of my other components (And deeper) which is a pain in the ass if you stack your gear as I do.

Similar Products Used:
JVC Garbage DVD player. See JVC reviews for DVD my god!

Summary:
I am a beginner in the DVD world. For about 2 months I looked throughought the internet, countless electronic stores and I ended up with the Proscan. The appearance looks really cool, I love the design and silver cover. It doesnt look like ur everyday DVD player.

Perfect for beginners, it wont dissapoint. It is very easy to use, took me about an hour to figure it all out. I played the Matrix all the way through and it worked like a charm. (currently my only DVD)

Picked it up in Circuit City about a week ago $265, a great purchase for me, to go along with my new infinity speaker system, and Sony 835 receiver, this system kicks some serious a$$ for around $1200 altogether.

This is surprising but I only have a 20 inch hooked up to it right now, and it still kicks. I was worried it wouldnt be quite that good but thankfully I was wrong.

Strengths:
Price. Great picture and sound, no lip sincking, like the remote(unlike most others), easy to use and operate.

Weaknesses:
Does not play CD-R's.

Similar Products Used:
This is my 1st DVD player.