As we all witnessed, casette tape player has gone & disc player took its share. Then again, DVD.. more high capacity discs came along. Now, Hard Drive players are available in the market. If you are considering or searching for a DVD player for your home theatre system, you might want to add USB connection enabled players on your list. Sooner or later, there will be more and more USB Hard Drive players & less and less disc players. Why spend almost twice of money to buy hard drive player? Well. For long term, it will save you lots $$$ because you will not have to buy discs, nor you will not worry about losing discs / getting scretach on discs. Currently, CAVS DVD-203G, RJ TECH, and ACE Sonic players are available. And, I chose CAVS in the aspect of quality, price, service, and technology. ADDED - Now, I have a DVD-203G USB unit and 160GB External HD. I loaded over 5000 songs on HD. Comparing 12-16 seconds to load a SCDG disc, using USB HD is Fantastically faster. Only takes 3-5 seconds.