It's a great unit that will play ALL formats of DVD and SACD. This is the first SACD player that I've had, and am totally impressed with the sound quality of multi-channel SACD sound. I only have two SACD's right now, Pink Floyd 'Dark Side of the Moon' and Police 'Greatest Hits'. Both are fantastic!

The only drawback would be the bass management of the unit, while it's a step ahead of other players (it actually HAS bass management) it is still somewhat lacking and when playing, I have to either adjust the bass for SACD manually, or live with too little bass on SACD's and too much bass on 5.1 and 'regular' inputs, or visa versa.

The picture quality is amazing and there is no perceptable layer change on DVD movies, it has a 16 MB buffer that seems to do the job very well.

Overall, I give it a 4 of 5 stars, while the DVD-5900 has better bass management, it's twice the cost. And I cannot afford 2000 bucks for a DVD player. The 800 bucks I paid for this hurt, but well worth it!