I am currently in the market for a new DVD player for my living room. I have a bunch of home movies on DVD that I would like to be able to use in my DVD player but not all of them work in my current one. They do all seem to work in my Xbox though. Anyway, I was wondering if anyone had any thoughts on what I should be looking for in terms of a set-top dvd player? In other words is there one that has a higher compatability than another with burned media?

why not just save money and keep using your xbox to play them

if you want a dvd player (still, why dont you just use your xbox?), id recomend the samsung dvd players. i have 3 of them and they are wonderful. great for the price too.

Get the DVD remote for your Xbox, you're all set.

Yeah, I know you can use the donglefree player, but having a real remote is nice.

take my advice and stick to it.

Phillips dvp-642,

plays all regions, plays all formats, plays divx, xvid, dvd,vcd, the list goes on..

Is upgradable to newer firmware from website each 3 months, so never same version.

Its a god.

Try the cheapest pile of **** you can find..usually all region and seem to play everything..my Dansai even manages vcd's!! Karaoke machines are about the same..cheap as chips and don't care what disks..

exactley what he said. my sony is so god damn picky (dished out over 200 for that thing at that time) this 10 dollar one i bought at bestbuy reads EVERYTHING!

This is an individual dvd player? Something I could put into a home theater system?

Yes, I have it as well and plays everything so far.

i find cheap names a lot better than big names. I had a nice sony one that was finicky with different media and formats, and wouldnt play svcds. Now for two of my dvd players, i just headed down to costco and picked up one of those $60 cheap ones. Head over to videohelp.com and get the region unlock code, and voila. Plays everything.

I agree a 100% on cheap dvd players,when I got my dvd for my room I went out and bought the top of the range pioneer(with built in suround),cost me more than a arm and a leg,and it wouldnt play my backups on cheap media R3400 (South African Rand),I went to the local supermarket and they had a cheap enzer there was only about R300 whent home upend it up and it had just about every conector imagenible svideo,vga,composit, even had each channal of the surround as output,hooked it up trough optical to my pioneer and have been using it ever since,reads just about everything even badly scratched discs plays fine on it,the pioneer is now only used as a amp

I have no idea why they charge so much for branded dvd's when there so SH*T.