[Rice AF3.0HD]

My dad is going to buy a DVD player at Best Buy because he has a gift certificate. What's the best DVD player he can get for $150.00?


He's going to be connecting it via component inputs to an analog VVega, so DVI/progressive is not important. I'm looking for a recommendation based on best interlaced picture. Also, SACD/DVD-A is not important. Any comments would be greatly appreciated... especially since he's going in about a half hour


Thanks in advance,


Rice

 

[Joxer]

Panasonic, JVC, and Pioneer are reliable and fine for interlaced only output. I've found the JVCs supports the most types of discs (all recordable DVD types, VCD, SVCD, MP3/WMA CDs, etc) and loads the fastest.

 

[ranster]

If he is not that picky, I would get the same brand as his TV or Receiver. This might save him a remote control laying around!

 

[gimphboi]

I was at Best Buy tonight and they were clearing out the Pioneer 578 players, which is not only a fine DVD player for the price, but also plays DVD-Audio and SACD discs.


Excellent price...nudge, nudge, wink, wink ;-)


-Tony

 

[MCaugusto]

.....That's funny : i was just at BestBuy picking up a DVD player (sister's birthday) and decided on purchasing a Sony carousel-changer so that whenever she had a party/gathering she could just load it up with 5 CDs/DVDs and let it run ! ....The Sony i got cost me only $116 and has some rather advanced features at such price point : progressive/interlaced output, front-panel control for FILM/VIDEO/NORMAL de-interlacing, Sony's mechanism for dealing with warped/damaged discs, 12 BIT/108MHz video D/A converter, extensive menu control for brightness, contrast, color, noise-reduction, etc, etc,etc....

I left the store mentioning to my brother how amazingly fast audio/video technology rushes ahead, considering that just 3 years ago you couldn't even find a DVD player with such features, let alone one selling for such a ridiculous amount of money and sold by a major manufacturer like Sony....

As a long time audiophile/videoholic i always jokingly said "thank God for the Japanese" (for being capable of assembling such reliable, low-cost, technology-driven electronics) but maybe now i should add to this mantra "and the Koreans, Taiwanese and very soon the Chinese as well" !!!!!