If you end up getting another player, check out the Phillips DVP642, Walmart has them for like $55. Just snagged one for Christmas myself. Main plus is it plays Divx and Xvid files from the computer with no reencoding, plus all the VCD//SVCD discs etc. If you have alot of divx/xvid avi and/or mpeg movies, TV episodes, etc on your computer you can burn then directly to a DVD and the player plays em, with so far no problems. Pretty sweet for me, I've got a crapload of Battlestar Galactica eps, Firefly eps, and lots of downloaded movies etc and playing them directly on the DVD player is sweet...