The product and I started out on the wrong foot when it failed to power up, wouldn't play a DVD, then wouldn't play CD's. I am very satisfied with the machine. Easy to use on-screen menus. Nice, simple design. Video quality is great.
Audio output is nice as well.
No component video output. I can't imagine better video output - the sharpness and the crisp color is all there. I'm using the S-video output connected to a Sony Wega, by the way. It's too bad it doesn't have component output, which seems to be popular now. Again though, I can't see how the video could be much better on my setup.