Another nice write up mate. 🙂

I’m not getting the frame dropping in DVDs. I’ve tried a couple. I’m fairly happy with it. MS have said that they plan to add a more fully featured player later, with 720p upscaling, so I guess this player could be considered a beta. Also rather strange is my TV reported that it was playing the movie in 1157i. A format that it doesn’t support. Infact, over component it can do 1080i, 720p, 576p, and 480p. It won’t display any other interlaced format, not that 1157i even exists. Very strange if you as me.