Thanks - a good start, I'll check them out.

Price isn't so much an issue - I'd like to keep it under $500, but really, I'm looking for value in Outlaw fashion. All of the players you mentioned are probably great, but I'm still paranoid about the whole "paying for the name" scam.

I'm still shopping for TVs too, but no hurry there, so for the sake of this discussion, let's just assume I get one capable of anything ; )

The "good" dvd player can take advantage of my "good" AUDIO system right now, without the video aspect to worry about yet.