Pioneer DV 434

I've had this machine for nearly a decade! It just keeps going better than any new dvd player I've found!

Had this one for several years. Plays Backups well and always good picture quality.

Overall, good quality picture and progressive scan is definately a plus. However, on the negative side, the dvd, like other reviewers have noted starts fiddling with the bay - it opens and closes and you have to grab it to insert a dvd. Further, the...

Any claim that the machine is capable of playing a DVD is completely false. I have owned this machine for two years, and it nearly always refuses to load DVDs (from the day I purchased it on - no problems with Audio CDs though). On the rare occasion it...

I bought this player 2 years ago. When the DVD tray opens it closes automatically on it's own. You have to grab it and hold it open to insert/remove a disk. Then 6 months ago it started sputtering, no picture, no sound. Hit FF and then Play and it...

I picked out this DVD player for my birthday in 2001, and for a year and a half there were no problems at all; it worked beautifully. Then just a year and a half later, poof! the sound quit playing. Dusting it out, replacing cables, and all that...

I bought this unit over 2 years ago. It was the only unit with progressive scan at the time for 300.00. The picture is great and the motor and transport seemed quite enough not to bother me during playback of movies. I thought I bought a great unit....

BUYERS, BE AWARE. I had 2 DVD players made by Pioneer. They are nice machines... for a little over a year. Then the warranty expires. The problem these players seem to have has to do with poorly designed dual laser pick up (one - for DVDs, the other...

Excellent picture quality

Very light-weight, a little noisy

I originally bought this player because of the value. It had a great variety of audio options and progressive scan at an unbeatable price. Indeed, it worked flawlessly for six months and played DVD, CD, SVCD, VCD discs well. The setup is comprehensive...