I'm looking for a good DVD player, on the largest budget my wife will allow ;), sub $200. I bought a Harman Kardon DVD22 and am okay with it. My concern with it is that when I hooked it up via s-video, there was some serious banding and patterns/distortions in darker gradient areas of movies, like shadows on walls and so forth. I got some mid-grade component cables and tried it again and it looked alot better. It just concerns me that it was there on the s-video.
My television is that great, it's a Philips 27" something or other, something I got a few years ago in college. I do plan on getting a good projector later though.
So, I'm basically wondering if I made a good choice with the HK DVD22, or should I look for something else? I want something that I can expand on, eventually I would like to setup a good mid-level theatre in my basement.
I was looking at the Denon 1710, or maybe the Yamaha S540, or Sony 775.