Sylvania DP170SL8 1080p Upconverting DivX Compatible DVD Player

Pros:

- No problem reading Netflix, or other marginal quality, DVDs
- Two zoom levels, around 200% and 350% of original picture size
- Can enhance picture brightness and turn virtual surround sound on/off while viewing
- Change caption and audio language, including commentary tracks, while viewing (most functions can be performed while watching the program)
- Remembers where you were when you stopped a program or shut the player off, and will resume from that point.
- Video outputs for Analog, component, S-Video, and HDMI
- Audio outputs for both analog and digital sound
- Plays both unprotected and licensed DivX content
- Easy setup, with auto revert test for progressive scan compatibility
- * Allows pass through of closed captioning not encoded as a feature on the disk

* (Some DVDs don't have digital captions programmed on them, but the source copy included closed captioning for televisions that support it. This is... Read more

This is the 2nd (I now own 2) of these players I have purchased... after trying other brands between the 1st and 2nd purchase. It works well with all types of outputs... Component Video, A/V and HDMI. I settled on HDMI with the Progressive Scan operational for viewing because it is the most flexible, with high quality video and sound. One particular feature I like, NOT FOUND ON OTHER BRANDS I HAVE TRIED, is that the DVD can be stopped along the way, left in the player, the player completely powered off... then restarted, picking up right where I stopped before powering down. No annoying icons remain on the screen after zooming. Less that $50 online 12/2008.

Bought this DVD player only because a more expensive model was not in-stock. Took it home, hooked it up and it worked fine the first couple times I used it. Then, I could not get it to power up. I've tried unplugging it multiple times and it still won't turn on. What a waste of money!