I am sure that by now there have been many reviews, let me give you a little more advice. DVD or Digital Versatile Disc, Not that it was formally going to be christened with this name? is the par format these days and everyone is talking about it. This format is growing. There are now HD DVD’s that are coming into the market and then there are DIVX which is the more popular version, this is for your information. You can choose from anyone of these format supported by the player, But the one famous in India, of course is the MP3 which is sold more because of the information stored on one CD-R or C-RW disc and also the cost. So DIVX is also a compression format for movies and thus gaining fame and is also stored on either a CD-R or CD-RW. Let me tell you about the component output connection. make sure that you have a TV that has a component input. And also that this is the best Analogue connectivity from the DVD to the TV getting the best pictures. Make sure that you are using good cables. If you are good with a Soldering iron then you can purchase MX gold plated RCA male connectors and some thick multi strand MIC (single code shielded) cable and get it on with soldering, these make for good and cheap cables. There is also a company called DAC which sells these cables but they would cost you about a 1000 bucks (RS). There are also technicalities that you would have to refer to the tech manual. The video DAC (Digital to analogue converter), minimum should be 10 bit anything above it is better.About the audio DAC, it should be mentioned that anything more than 24 bit and 192 KHZ of sampling frequency is good and anything better is good. these you can ignore and watch for colors and definition of the image, specially while within high speed action pact scenes. the color rendering should be clean and with a lot of definition. Now we come to the part where DVD players have progressive scan. Now progressive scan in a DVD player is useless unless you have a TV that has progressive scan in it as well. HA HA HA I know I got you there, you did not know about this did you, that’s the trick. Go to a showroom and take a DVD with progressive scan (component connectivity to be considered, because most DVD’s give progressive out when connected via component out). connect it to any normal TV and watch a movie, then connect it to a flicker free tv or in other words a tv that has 100Hz digital scanning mentioned in the tech manual which is also a TV that accepts progressive signal(dont go on the shop rep’s words for this since they would normally say yes without knowing what it means). You will now know the difference. Make sure in both the cases ’’while watching sam movie on both the TV’s that you have progressive scan enables’’ . and then you will know what I mean. I say that you have to audition it because YOU are the one who is going to look at the TV and enjoy both the DVD and the TV for the rest of the life, not me. Lets do it and get out there and get ourselves a DVD player that is good for us.Also let me inform you that a TV with the flicker free attributes added to it is a little bit costlier than thier norm brothers. Any questions please holler my name and I will answer, maybe it may take awhile but I will surely get there. Thank you....I could also tell you more about a single laser and a twin laser and, also some about error correction methods but then that would be too deep...so I let that area go for now...some other time perhaps...chow for now..take care