I'm looking to buy a new DVD player to give as a gift. The main requirement (in addition to DVD play) is good playback of VCD's and (particularly) SVCD's. The ability to play XVCD and XSVCD would be nice. Because this is a gift, reliability is important and for that reason I'm going to stay away from Apex or the other really cheap ones.

I've come up with the following two candidates:

Pioneer DV-250
Magnavox MDV430SL

Can anyone comment more on these or recommend any others in this price range that I've missed that would be good? Thanks.