Claims to have Progressive Scan; but any slight (and I mean slight!) blemish on the DVD led to this thing immediately freezing up and refusing to play at all, requiring a restart just to eject the disc. To ensure there's no misunderstanding about the slightness of the blemishes here: The DVDs were bought new and watched a maximum of 3-4 times (not rentals or former rentals)... And when visually inspected, it required a thorough hunt just to find the pathetically small surface scratch which was causing the problem!... As in, no deep gouges/scratches and no scratches in multitude or any significant number... Usually, just one, tiny, minuscule, seemingly insignificant surface scratch -- Yet this piece of crap not only couldn't read past it and continue playing; but couldn't even find it's way past the fault through manual searching (i.e., trying to play the next or any latter available episode contained on the disc)! Absolute Garbage -- Returned Immediately. [Oh, and the push-buttons on the unit itself are EXTREMELY hard to push -- you have to grip it from underneath when trying to push any of them, just to ensure it registers the fact that you are pushing the frikkin' button!]