I've got the phillips, and it usually works great, but it doesn't seem to like Veronica Mars. In fact, I have the first 12 episodes burned on one disk, and it will not play eps 1 or 12. Very annoying! I tried burning a second copy, and it did the same thing, but I can't figure out what the heck is wrong with the codecs.

As for anime, most of the stuff works, but I end up not always being able to read the subtitles. FMA appears to work fine, but Aishiteruze Baby didn't. But oh well, I've actually gotten used to watching stuff on my monitor. :->