Home audio & video forum: Opinions need between dvd players

I do not have the DV-363, but at 99USD from Walmart at http://tinyurl.com/q1dj it seems like a great deal.

I have played with the Pioneer and Panasonic models when and where I could and from memory, the Pioneer seemed to beat the Panasonic in a simple procedure. Power off, press the eject button, pop in a DVD and press the play button. That's all of two button presses and the time to start the movie was many seconds faster on the Pioneer.

A nagging issue is whether you find such models in stock about your part of the world.

It's just my opinion that I'd get the Pioneer because of playing with such in the showrooms and that I'm very pleased with the DV-250 at home.

Bob

"Variable Zoom Function
When watching a widescreen-format DVD movie on a conventional 4:3 aspect ratio TV, this feature allows you to enlarge the screen image in order to eliminate the black bars on the top and bottom of the screen."

That paragraph seems clear to me. I'll have to try the DV-250, just a few minutes....

Ok, Zoom is 2x and some others. Fixed aspect ratios and can pan around the screen while the movie plays. Unsure if such is that much fun, but it does remove the black bars, but you lose part of the image left and right.

Bob

I just got the Panasonic S55 and it's great. Smooth fast operation. Video looks great, sound is great. And it plays everything but 8-tracks