I'm using Sony DVP-NS76H, it plays ahem dvd flawlessly including those poorly mastered copies which are warped or scratched. Picture quality via HDMI is acceptable, the picture quality is overall pretty good, with no jaggies, progressive scan is pretty smooth. I'll recommend this player anytime. If you're fussy about picture quality, you'll need to consider Denon 2930 but it's an expensive player and might not be able to play all ahem dvds because it doesn't have the dynamic tilting feature like the Sony player so warped dvds will be a problem for this player but it upscales to 1080P and one of the best HDMI players from Denon.

Anyway, Sony DVP-NS76H is a good player, worth considering, I got it at RM590. Not expensive for such a player IMHO.