Best DVD on a budget

If you want to spend $300, I highly recommend buying a used Pioneer DV-05 on this site (an Elite model with an original retail of $1000 that sold for $700ish). They're great DVD players and pretty good CD players. If you prefer to spend less, you can buy one of their new basic models (I believe DV-343 or DV-444??) for $200 or less.

Panasonic DVD-RP56. It has the Faroudja chip and is $200 at Best Buy. Only shortfall is that it doesn't have a coax digital out, but an optical. Works fine if your processor or AV receiver accepts one.
I sold my $800 Denon DVD and got this and am well pleased.
Good luck.

The Sony DVP7700 is selling for $325-$350 on Audiogon. I
picked up one used for a HT system and am VERY impressed
with it. Very solidly made, unlike many of the others, and
it has received great reviews also.

If you can possibly pull it off Tweeter is selling new Toshiba 9200's for $499.00. That is avery good deal.
Tim

I have a JVC XV-D2000 DVD player that would probably be a used bargain if you can find one. This was an early DVD player and was made to sound good on CD's and DVD's. It has a K2 Interface which I think uses some of the same technology as JVC's XRCD's. IMO the sound is better than any of the players mentioned so far. This is a rare gem that some sound loving engineers slipped passed the marketing department at JVC.

I have found only one movie that this player will not play, and the company issued another version of this movie since it had playablility problems on several players. I paid about $600 for this player several years ago. I think the retail price was originally >$800.