Recommend a good DVD Player for McIntosh HT System

Try the MVP 861 but put $ into some great video cables- (from one McIntosh owner to another)

I have a black Sharp Acquos 20 inch. I wanted to get a 22 inch or larger so I could get HD, but they stopped making them in black. I like it alot, very clear picture. When I added a Monster HTS 5100, the picture became even sharper, I was suprised. The speakers are great, I'm actually using them as a center channel, and also to cut down on clutter, and considering the center channel is really just for dialogue. Interestingly enough, before I got the HTS 5100, I kept thinking I needed a larger television to make viewing widescreen movies easier. I bought the 5100 for another reason, in hopes of getting rid of line noise, which it didn't help, but it improved picture quality drastically to the point where I'm content with the 20".

I Own a 5910 ..yes it set me back ; but the HQV de-interlacer processed the worst mastered DVD and simply makes it look pristine. I looked at the Yam and the Pan and was very impressed. But the S97 uses that Pan/Matsushita MPEG decoder and the Genesis FLI-2310 video processing chip. The 2310 chip had that macroblocking problem that seems to create digital blocking in the image both on its own and by enhancing issues that are already there. Still for $300, very nice player

Firmware update eliminated the MB problem completely over component cabling. HDMI is still a problem, but lesso than before. ( Pany S97 info)