This is from 2 year old DVDs or so. Sony, Panasonic and Pioneer don't, Toshiba and Mitsubishi do. Actually one of the Mitsubishis I saw was a Toshiba, couldn't figure out what the other one was. The three year old Samsung used a direct drive motor which is a far superior motor that I'm sure they don't still use. Hard to believe Samsung used direct drive at a time when Sony, Pioneer and Panasonic were using cheap DC brush motors. Haven't seen any specs, this is from DVD players I have worked on.