Didn't think this player could play KVCD 23.976 mpeg-1 but after reading your post I decided to give it another try and found that it does. I then tried it on my Apex AD500W and to my surprise it worked also. I do not understand why when I had tested both of these players in the past they would not do 23.976, I think it might have something to do wih min. bitrate. I have a funny feeling that KVCD at 23.976 will work on just about every standalone out there and many people are encoding at 29.97 needlessly. Both of my Apex players can do both mpeg-1 and
mpeg-2 at 720x480,704x480, 544x480,480x480,352x480 and 352x240 for both 23.976 and 29.97. However, if you read the compatibility chart you get a completely different story. I think that KVCD at its current incarnation is far more compatible than even Kwag realizes.