~100 dollar dvd suggestions?

[scb]

i'm getting my father a new dvd player for christmas.  what he has now is a POS toshiba, so anything will be better.  i just want to make sure i don't get him another POS. 

any suggestions?  maybe up to the 150 range

[Nick Culbreth]

It might be a bit too late but I really like the Pioneer DV-563a, it will play pretty much anything you throw at it and it sounds good and has a sharp picture.

[scb]

nah not too late.  he's getting a late gift

thanks

[scb]

i think i'm going with the 588.  seems to be a newer 563

thanks

[Nick Culbreth]

i think i'm going with the 588.  seems to be a newer 563

thanks

FWIW I've heard the 588 is a little noisy.

[scb]

how so?

i doubt my father will notice anything, though.  as long as it works, he should be happy

[leehookem]

I bought this one today 150 plus tax at Best Buy:

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=7048713&type=product&productCategoryId=cat03013&id=1107957009599

[L Ron Hoover]

Does that LG play DVDA gapless?

[Nick Culbreth]

how so?

i doubt my father will notice anything, though.  as long as it works, he should be happy

I've read the transport is a bit noisy, but if your dad isn't an audiophile he probably won't notice it.   

And as an aside thank you Scott for all your work on DVD-Audiofile, I downloaded it a couple days ago and I've been burning DVDs like crazy.  It's so nice to have entire shows on one disc.

[scb]

glad i could help

[leehookem]

Does that LG play DVDA gapless?

sure does.  I love this thing.  even has a compact flash reader on the front panel. 

[kskreider]

i think i'm going with the 588.  seems to be a newer 563

thanks

FWIW I've heard the 588 is a little noisy.

We have had a Pioneer DV 525? for a while and it has a noisy fan.  I was aware of that when I bought it (Spring 2000) but it was one of the only ones at the time that handled CD-R/RW AND had a coaxial output in my price range ($250ish)  I used it primarily to do CD>CD using my HHb CDR850.