I bought a Norcent at Walmart recently to compliment my otherwise very capable Toshiba. Works fine. New DVD players are very simple devices. Most of them are using your run of the mill DVD-ROM drive internally. With a molex power connector and an IDE ribbon cable. This DVD player is made by a large Chinese company also manufacturing a number of other units under different trade names. Region-free setting, specific region setting, PAL and NTSC playback with conversion. Macrovision can also be disabled (I don't care about that though). It can play back VCD, SVCD, MP3 CDRs, JPG CDRs, and a few othr things. Not bad for $90 Canadian.

If you want a better quality unit, get one from the UK s long as it can handle NTSC output.

Bruno