Well I know what impulse buying can do to a budget, (not to mention buying my marriage counselor's new BMW. and having been an avid DVD devote and early adopter, I feel justly constitutes my 250 DVD's, but I digress. Unfortunately this industry is, as you have come to find out, extremely diversified even in individual catagories, with DVD players just as different as apples-to-oranges! The DVD player that you purchased I believe is this years model of my current player (DVP-NS700P) and sometimes, without any real explaination moving from one generation of player to another, anomolies arise. This may or may not be the case with you particular player, but overall it sounds as though you aren't terribly satisfied.

I have heard a lot of good press about the performance of the Panasonic RP-91, and would assume that the RP-82, if using the same circuitry, would probably be a good buy. The Pioneer Elite DV-47A DVD player is a bit more expensive, but with it's, IMHO incredible video performance and rare inclusion of having BOTH SACD and DVD-Audio playback capability (both 2.0 and 5.1 channel capable) in one unit, it would pretty much justify it's price. The closest comparison of a quality DVD-A/SACD/DVD player that I could find was also a pioneer, but runs for about $5000.00!! I personally would probably buy the Pioneer DV-47A because of these facts alone, taking into account that I am both an audiophile and videophile, but it does cost around $1200. That's just a bit out of MY price range right now. Most of the reviews for the RP-91 that I have read have been favorable, with some notations regarding the video performance slightly lower than other lower priced Panasonic Progressive Scan models, but the main draw is it's ability to scale non-animorphic DVD's to fit your 16:9 display. If that feature is disabled in your sets progressive input, as it is in my Sony LCD 16:9 display, I can see your interest in the Panasonic player.

The reason I would recommend the Pioneer over the Panasonic player, especially in you case Lena, is to allow you and your husband not only the ability of getting the very best video image you can on your brand new Grand Wega, but also to fully take advantage of the Outlaw 950's audio capabilities (DVD-A/SACD). This is again just my humble opinion. The rest is up to you

Hope you and your Husband have a great 4th!!

-Jeremy