Memorex MVD2047 Progressive Scan DVD Player, Black

I picked up this model at a local Radio Shack store for 20 bucks. For a DVD model with HDMI upscaling I thought I would give it a try. My intention is to use this DVD player as a backup to my other DVD player at my vacation home but I wanted to give it a shakeout. I hooked this up to a very high end 7.2 home theatre system with the HDMI cable plugged into an AV receiver. For a very cheap DVD player the upscaling video on a 52" HDTV was very good! Certainly not in the class of an HD Blu Ray player would produce but I was impressed. Best of all, the Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound audio was outstanding, just as good as my Sony DVD play costing 3x as much. I then plugged the HDMI directly into my HDTV to test if there would be sound issues since others have posted problems with this. I found none. It worked just fine!

The 5 stars are for the value for what this player will produce based on the price point, even at $50. My only complaint is that this player will not stream DTS... Read more

Owned this DVD player for over a year with no problems at all. The ability to switch the DVD player from 4:3 to 16:9 to watch movies in both formats is why I chose this unit. I hook this to a 1040 DPI Panasonic TV via the HDMI cable and the movies look very good, the up-converting does work well. I paid over $80.00 for this unit, so $40.00 is a good bargin.

Terrible Purchase! I purchased the DVD player because it had an HDMI connection which I needed because my new 92" Mitsubishi TV had limited AV inputs. I tried the HDMI connection on multiple inputs on the new TV. The picture is fine, but there is no sound. I switched with another apparatus that was working fine and connected the DVD player to the same TV HDMI input---still no sound! I switched HDMI cables---still no sound!
I have made several purchases from Amazon and have always been satisfied. However, two purchases in a row were terrible! (This and a non-working Field and Stream Dive watch were both garbage!)
DO NOT BUY THIS DVD PLAYER IF YOU WILL BE USING THE HDMI CONNECTION!