Why not get a BluRay player that upscales regular DVDs? Wouldn't that be far more versatile?

I'm getting this over a modern Blu-ray player for a number of reasons. A. This device can be easily unlocked to play any region DVD's, a region free Blu-ray player costs around $200. B. I want a dedicated DVD player that is made strictly for that purpose as I have a huge DVD collection and not many Blu-ray's, for many Blu-ray players, the DVD aspect is somewhat of an afterthought and not the purpose of the machine, you will notice in reading Blu-ray player reviews, people often complain about their players not playing older dvd's getting error messages with DVD's ect., it is a different technology and an "add on " for a Blu-ray player. C. Modern Blu-ray players try to do too much, they have all this technology and bells and whistles, there are a lot more things to go wrong in them, freeze up and fry the machines, ect., they also are constantly getting on the internet and updating software and that can make the machine more prone to go bad too with one bad line of code or a virus. My Sony Blu-ray player jumped on the internet and reported me to Sony because it thought the disk I was watching was a bootleg, my player actually tattled on me while whatching a movie and the machine froze and I got a notice in my email from Sony accusing me of pirating. In any event for me anyway, there are a number of reasons I would choose a good basic player for $50 and not have all the bells, whistles and headaches. Here's another interesting article related to modern Blu-ray players, apparently they only work as long as they keep updating copyrights, and the company can decide at any given time not to update older machines, and you will never be able to watch newer disks once this happens. http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2013/09/26/call-kurtis-why-your-samsung-blu-ray-player-may-not-play-your-movies/

dose this player remember where it stops?

Don't you just love all the conflicting answers to this simple question? So I'm going to assume using good faith that everyone is answering truthfully. Then logically that means there are several variations of the Panasonic DVD Player DVD-S700 where this function does not work on one variation (let's say maybe the black version) and it does on the white version. How else can you explain that I just received the black version and there's no way this resume function works using any of the straightforward or convoluted instruction provided in the manual, in the answers below, or instructions found by googling. Sorry folks, if you want the safe answer, it is no this does not resume where you left off after stopping (not pausing since that would be a "dah") the episode. Just as an aside, I've owned many dvd players over the years, and this is the first one I've encountered where this function doesn't work.

will this playback DVD +rw media

Have a deck with 2 sets of speakers wired for stereo. Want a cd player to drive these to a low minimal volume. Would the Panasonic changer provide enough power to perform this task? John in Colorado .

ASIN	B00KC0HVTQ
Batteries	2 AAA batteries required. (included)
Best Sellers Rank	#7,504 in Electronics ( See Top 100 in Electronics ) #16 in DVD Players
Brand Name	Panasonic
Color Name	black
Customer Reviews	4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars (4,528)
Date First Available	May 14, 2014
Is Discontinued By Manufacturer	No
Item Weight	2.43 pounds
Item display height	3.9 centimeters
Item model number	DVD-S700
Product Dimensions	8 x 12.25 x 1.5 inches
Special Features	Compact

DVD Player DVD-S700 (Black) Upconvert DVDs to 1080p Detail, Dolby Sound from DVD/CDs View Content Via USB

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