Best DVD player Brand??

[agent_mulder81]

Hi all... I only got a DVD player on my computer, so I want to buy a standalone one, but I'm not sure which brand is best!

Cuz I've heard that sony doesn't play CD-Rs very well? and that Panasonic ones do play VCDs, but aren't very good at playing SVCDs?

So I just want to know which brand of DVD players are good at playing both VCD and SVCD?

Thanks for any help

[snowmoon]

Pioneer's are great for playing standard compliant disks. VCD, SVCD, PAL, NTSC, DVD all with superior visual quality. It does OK on non-compliant VCD up to 2600kbps.

I have a DV-333 ( 2yrs old ) and it's great.

You can also check the DVD players list for the most highly rated.

[eatin sammiches for lunch]

yea pioneers have excellent vcd /svcd playback as i have a 333 and a 343 but be prepared that some of those older pioneer models choke on some dvd-9 movies out there.

i actually called pioneer about the problem and customer support recommend that i bring in my 343 for a hardware/circuit upgrade to play the unplayable dvd's.

[snowmoon]

Funny... I have never had one glitch with my 333. It has a slightly longer layer change than I would like, but the quality otherwise is great. I had tried an apex 1500, but it felt so flimsy and the video quality was not all that great.