Oh and I just checked and this whole "no SD video outputs" thing must be fairly new because both my Philips and Magnavox players,purchased in the past two years, have SD video and sound outputs on them.

I think my Philips Bluray player is my favorite I have ever owned since it was cheap and I can hook a USB drive up to it and it will play any video file I throw at it, except MKV for some reason. Oh and it will even play the files off of a standard data disc burned with windows. So not only is it the cheapest Bluray player I have ever owned but it has the most features. If only it were multi region and it played MKVs, it would be perfect.