Rob I have had one for a while, bought it out of Best Buy in Ct. It is much like the older 985 model but with some very nifty features. Has zoom up to 4 times but does not fill past the black bars and leaves a 2x etc icon in the picture corner. Having a Sony tv I use the tv zoom to fill the screen when I want. As far as I can tell the menu is still slow and ponderous to use so I still use a paper list of all 400 slots...... But the picture is still only as good as the component 5 wire picture. DVD's are only 480 lines I think anyway. The only advantage to the newer player is that I can have a third progressive scan device plugged into my tv. One the dvp-995 in the hdmi slot and two dvp985's in the component 5 wire slots in the back of the set. Still for the money it rocks! And they look good in the rack as well........