This is a good choice for an SD DVD player. It will upscale to 1080p and does so pretty well. It's a notch below my Oppo 983H, but considering it costs far less than the Oppo, the performance is well worth the cost.

The build quality is solid, as is typical with Onkyo products. Installation is a snap (basically, just plug in the HDMI cable). The HDMI cable is not included (get one from monoprice at a very reasonable cost). Easy to use menu system, and the disks load quickly.

The only downside is the remote, which is small and has poorly marked buttons. But, it has volume and mute control for Onkyo receivers, so it's a good match should you have that brand.

I compared it against several players from Sony, Toshiba and Phillips. The Phillips felt "cheap" to me (but were the lowest priced units). The Sony and Toshiba were more substantial in build quality, but I went with the Onkyo based upon past experience with the brand and the fact that this will be... Read more

I have had Sony, Toshiba and Pioneer up-converting DVD players and finally found what is considered "Best of the Best"...and rightfully so...the Oppo 983H. With out a doubt, the Oppo 983H is king! Which now resides in the living room. Still, it is a bit pricey and I continued to search for a good, but relatively lower cost player for the den. At last, found the ONKYO DV-SP406 on Amazon a couple months ago and it has performed superbly! Well built and the up-converting to 1080P is excellent! For about a quarter of the cost of my Oppo....I'm very-very pleased! As good as the Oppo - no, but close enough for the price. Far better than the Sony, Toshiba or Pioneer. So much so, that I just purchased another DV-SP406 for the bedroom and will put the Toshiba XDE in the guest room. As a note...the Sony died after 5 months, the Toshiba XDE resides in the bedroom...at least for a couple more days and I returned the Pioneer to Best Buys after a week. I highly recommend the Onkyo DV-SP406 to... Read more

I bought this Onkyo DV-SP406B upscaling DVD player to replace an aging Toshiba DVD player which wouldn't play some disks correctly, especially double-sided.
I was not interested in BlueRay - they cost too much and many other reviewers have said that their DVDs look better on their upscaling DVD players than on their brand new BlueRay player. And we have large DVD collection.

I also have an Onkyo receiver so it seemed advantageous to get a matching DVD player as there are a few receiver controls on the DVD remote (on/off, muting, volume, and input). We are very happy with this player. It seems to be well built as expected from Onkyo. I know, we've only had it for two months, but we use it a lot. The first day I was freaked out because it displayed sort of green overcast images on out Pioneer HDTV. But, it turned out that the default HDMI input setting on the Pioneer was not set correctly. No fault of Onkyo. Once I got out the Pioneer manual and learned how to change the... Read more