Yamaha DVD S1700

100% of the reviews on Amazon.com give this product a positive rating.

Universal compatibility; build quality; excellent performance with movies and music

Less natural pictures and sound than main rival

This thing does it all, with a huge amount of features, and quality construction. Great for those who are reluctant to go the Blu Ray route

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Nice looking, easy to use and set-up. Doesn't make much noise. Relatively light. Remote works great. Upconverts to 1080P, although anyone that's going to purchase this item would most likely purchase it for that reason. Great picture

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Plug and Play hdmi connection makes life easy most setting are automatic

Sound setup not clear if you are using optical 5.1 link to av eqiupment

Easy to use very good sound and picture.

None really for pro e at time of purchase

Fantastic picture quality, plays discs previously less playable; DVD-Audio sound is better than I have ever heard, brings a new life to my collection, enjoying them again as if they were new to me.

Almost everything has to accessed from remote, a hidden panel would be nice in order to do basic functions (menu etc.,) from the unit.

Superb picture, well built, looks good, Prerecorded disks look good, 5.1, RCA sockets on the back, negate the need for a digital reciever. Just plug into a multi channel power amp. Apart from a few niggles, the main thing is the picture is excellent.

heres why it gets only 7 out of 10. with recorded dvd's it freezes. The search buttons dont seem to stop where you fast forwarded to, or rewinded. Regularly the DVD when i tried to playback a point, used what must be some sort of location point on the...

player very easy to use.excellent quality for the money.

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The main good points about the player is that its picture quality is excellent, depth of colour. and it looks as though its built to last. good range of connections on the back. I am currently running an active cinema setup, as it has the 5.1 outlets...

Sadly it does have some slightly niggly design issues. It doesnt have open or close on the remote. When fast forwarding on search, especially the x6 speed, it does not locate at the exact point you start playing again, its like its finding an index...