Curtis DVD1098C DVD Player with HDMI, 1080P Upconversion

Bought this because it was the least expensive DVD player with HDMI on Amazon. There were no reviews when I looked at this, and decided to give it a shot.

If anything, this player looked good in the picture whereas usually, with the absolute lowest priced DVD player, it would just be a plastic black box. The Curtis, however, spiced it up with having a spaceship like blue line in the front of it. I bought it for that 'effort'.

As far as using it, I will say it is a wide DVD player (a little over 14"), and very lightweight. The upscaling seems really good and fills a 60" 1080p screen with no black bars with most movies I have tried with it (1950's black and white as well as new CGI-laden movies). Some widescreen movies retained black bars while others did not but this is a result of the source, not the player. The upscaling does help to sharpen the picture a bit, but it does look a tad digitalized. However, it does a pretty good job at resembling, but not exactly... Read more

Its a really cool DVD player, and at $30 bucks, considering what you see on the shelf at Target of Walmart, its an incredible deal. All the features work, not sure when I'll use the USB port, but its there. On HDMI, I'm able to get 1920x1080 resolution on my 720p 37" Dynex, vcool.

As far the player itself, for the money I think it's great. However I put a movie on a sd card (8g) and when I inserted it in the sd slot it said "bad card". I also tried a usb thumb drive and it wouldn't play that either. I tried a 1g card and it played the movie, no problem. So, I'm thinking that it will only handle up to a certain gig as far as the sd card. I don't know what's up with the usb stick. If anyone knows I sure would like to find out.