The Sony DVD player does not make too loud Bertiebsgeräusche, you hardly hear him. He is very small and also very flat. The player has no Scart connection but it but HDMI, but these days is not so bad because you anyway always has at least one HDMI connection to the TV equipment. Because the player is so small it has no front panel display. That does not matter because you can show all information during operation. Since the player is not a recorder there is no time display, with which one can live. If you want to connect the player to a stereo system can do that because the connections are available for it. One can not only DVD movies but also listen to music CDs. So far, the player has played all easily Silberscheiben with me. What's also good is that you do not depend as much cable on the device. There is only the HDMI cord and the Netzkababel, otherwise nichts.Der Stronverbrauch is also very low because just no display is installed. I am very satisfied with the device and would recommend it well continue.