Which One Better, Sony or Panasonic

[loverboy117]

I want to get a dvd player this month..
It's between Sony Dvps300 or Panasonic RV31k?
hope u guys can give me some good advices..
Every review i read about are the same?!

[nightwing7]

Dont get Sony!!!! Panasonic is ok, but i recomend a pioneer they can play everything (cept MP3 on most models). They have great quality. Sony is very very picky with CDR media. Panasonic is not bad but has no SVCD

[SupaCoopa]

Like nightwing7 said, get a Pioneer.
I would recommend DV-535 (excellent all-rounder, budget price, 5 stars from What Hi-Fi, no MP3 playback) or one of the newer models (DV-444 is the cheaper of them, me thinks) which can also play MP3s.

[mpack]

I think I'll be the lone dissenting voice here...

True, Sony have a reputation for stuffy adherence to the region coding rules, and not providing CD-R playback even on their high end machines...

On the other hand, raw feature list aside, Sony makes lovely kit. My first DVD player was a Sony DVPS525D - it couldn't play CD-Rs or SVCDs and wasn't remote hackable, so I recently bought a Philips DVD762 to replace it. It has since become very clear to me that the Philips is a piece of s**t compared to the Sony. The Sony gives me beautiful glitch free playback of all my movies with smooth FF and RW, the Philips gives me jerky FF and RW, often glitches during movie playback (not just on layer change), sometimes traps the DVD disk inside the player when the drawer comes out, and also makes the TV speakers hiss in quiet movie moments...

I have no experience of Pioneer, all I'm saying is that there are worse things than not being able to play CR-Rs!