I used to have Cyber home DVD player. It died on me few year later. Cheap brand lol.
I just fixed my son's PS2 and now it's working great and video seem smooth and crisp like you said. I had to raise up DVD drive (raising 4 rubber corners by putting 1/6th inch little washer on each corners. Bolted it in and tightened it because DVD disk was rubbing against DVD enclosure frame causing motor to struggle to keep spinning smoot. Because PS2 DVD drive rubber ends somehow became shortened a bit due to dropping or pressing DVD into snap on spindle hard (typical of kids tho)
Also I had to fix the gaming controller jack on PS2 as well.. The 1st player jack was broken and 2nd player was in good shape. I decide to unsolder both jacks (both are in one pieces) then I use jig saw to cut it half to throw out broken one and shift good one to 1st player. My sons are aware that they can only have 1 players. I may try find 2nd jack replacement later so both can play.
I DO have PS3 and video are clean and crisper on BlueRay than DVD when using HDMI on LCD TV. I can see pore of skins and more details as well.
But if PS3 plays DVD (not Blue Ray), Video appears same as PS2.
Catty