I bought one of these players last year, and it's quite good. PQ was excellent for DVDs, DivX, and MPEG Transport Stream files. I had a lot of problems playing back higher bitrate MPEG2 TS files but the most recent firmware update included a feature to spin the drive faster, and that solved the problem. If you want one with a digital output JVC sells an identical model as the SRDVD-100U. And as far as I know the player will pass a DTS signal with no problem. The only drawback I found was the player only supports external USB drives formatted in FAT16 or 32, which limits file sizes to 4GB. But you can hook it up to a network and stream files from a PC or Mac.
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I bought one of these players last year, and it's quite good. PQ was excellent for DVDs, DivX, and MPEG Transport Stream files. I had a lot of problems playing back higher bitrate MPEG2 TS files but the most recent firmware update included a feature to spin the drive faster, and that solved the problem. If you want one with a digital output JVC sells an identical model as the SRDVD-100U. And as far as I know the player will pass a DTS signal with no problem. The only drawback I found was the player only supports external USB drives formatted in FAT16 or 32, which limits file sizes to 4GB. But you can hook it up to a network and stream files from a PC or Mac.