Sony DVP-NS57P/S Progressive Scan DVD Player, Silver

yeah, i had a toshiba for a bit, it died horribly. it wouldn't sync the voice and the video. this player works perfectly. it is awsome! BUY IT!!! unless you want upconverting or blu-ray or multiple disks...

Ok, so, it works. Fine. It plays DVDs, and it has taken some rough handling dished out by my two-year-old.

BUT, it claims to have a system for playing flawed discs -- granted, we get a lot of kids' DVDs from the library, but... this thing skips and freezes frequently. What's worse is that when it freezes, it JUST FREEZES -- you can't fast forward though the bad section.

AND, the buttons on the unit (since we have a two-year-old who hides remotes) only work once in a while. I'll push "play", and MAYBE it will play, maybe not. Plus, the display on the unit is so vague, that I can't tell if it's getting ready to play or not. And it's not just the one button, it's all four (power, play, stop, open) -- so I blame the design, rather than just a faulty switch.

But it works fine, as long as I use the remote and play better-than-library-quality discs. The ones from Blockbuster still have problems, but not as many.

All in all, it's disappointing for a Sony.

Others have described the features well so I won't go into that myself. I'll just say that I have had this dvd player for a year and a half and have put it through heavy-duty usage (at least 5-6 dvds per week) and it has never once failed me. It even plays dvds that my other more expensive player won't! How's that for satisfaction? You won't go wrong with this workhorse, trust me.

the only thing I don't like is the player dosen't pas RF. It cannot be used as a tuner. but good player otherwise.

Plugged in fine. That's about it. It played one dvd, and from then on, would not play anymore. I put brand new dvds into it, that worked fine on my other dvd player, but it would keep saying LOADING LOADING LOADING....