While I was doing the annual mad mind scramble to purchase something for my sons for Christmas, I discovered the Toshiba sd-6915, which is a multidisc, universal dvd player. I bought the last one at BB for my college student son who couldn't care less about sacd. He only wanted something which would play his burned cd's. I thought he would think it was cool. I listened to a cd on it in 2 channel mode, and it sounded pretty darn good. But, it got me to wondering. It plays just about anything you would want and does it pretty well. This question arised in my puny, little brain. Why would anyone buy a $1000 dvd player when this thing performs similarly for $120? Talk amongst yourselves. I need to refill my coffee cup.