Strengths: Build quality, video quality, audio quality, etc.

Weaknesses: none

Summary: I've been using this player for a few months now and I simply love it. I'm using it in conjunction with a Pioneer PRO-FHD1 for video, and the Yamaha RX-V2700 to handle the audio portion. On the video side, it's as much as anyone could ask for from an up-converting (up-converts to 1080p) player and then some. The picture is awesome. On the audio end, it's silky smooth without loosing any of the detail you want from your recordings. As for playing back burned DVDs from a PC, I have had NO problems at all. I have about 100 back up copies (for our second home) and have tried at least 10 of them without one single glitch. I use 8.4 DVD+R discs BTW. I would highly recomend this unit for anyone who want's a fantastic player without having to buy their DVD collection all over again, or sit around waiting for the HD/BlueRay format war to get resolved.

Strengths: The HD picture is Great, as well as SD pictures.Easy to use.

Weaknesses: Laser reading of disks VERY POOR on computer burned DVD's

Summary: Before I purchased the DVD-S2700 I was using the Yamaha DVD-S1500 which I owned for the past 2 years. Anything I burned on my computer played back on the DVD-S1500 without a problem, every disk played back perfectly. I purchased the DVD-S2700 about 2 weeks ago, to gain the advantage of the HD playback of the unit for my Plasma TV, the first disk I played, the picture quality was good, and the HD quality was GREAT and the sound was also GREAT, but then the picture started to skip, pause, skew, and freeze up, the whole disk was not that way but it happened enough to be very annoying, and should no be happening on disks that played back perfectly not only on my old Yamaha DVD-S1500 but other brand player my friends have. I tested a few disks just to make sure it was not the disks fault!!!!Then I played a DL disk I burned, it played the first time with the same skips, pauses, skews, and freeze ups??.but the second time I wanted to play the same DL disk the unit gave me a message ?Unknown Disk??.What the hell is this, if it play back once what?s with this message. Before I got this message, the unit seemed to reset with the picture going black on my tv and the unit turning off then back on??????????I wrote Yamaha Support, waited 1 weeks for a Canned answer of ?It?s stated in the manual that you may have problems playing back some disks? BULL, not evey disk I try to play that was burned on a computer and played back with no problems on their model DVD-S1500???All I can say is if anyone is thinking of buying this unit STAY AWAY FROM THIS ONE, SAVE YOUR MONEY??..Look at another manufactures with a better trackrecord of playing back DVD?s burned on a computer.