Finally Starting to Break Down...

[Rev. Rye]

Blu-Ray has been around for seven years and I have steadfastly avoided buying a BR player for all that time, but, BR-exclusive special features be damned, it is only now that I have started to realise that the time is coming that DVD is becoming extinct. I just looked at the Criterion Collection website and saw this:


There were four new titles announced for November 12, and every single one was available only on DVD-BR combo pack. And, apparently, they're giving up on releasing films on DVD and Blu-Ray separately.

So, it looks like the writing's on the wall; DVDs are becoming obsolete, and the time is coming where a Blu-Ray player is becoming more and more necessary.

So, with this in mind, I have to ask recommendations on which player I should get, with three things in mind:
1) I want something inexpensive.
2) The two TVs that I use the most are fairly old (at least 10 years; 15 for the one in my room), CRT televisions (I could never get used to the Commodore 64-level loading it takes just to turn on the television on a flatscreen.) I understand that I won't get the same BR quality picture on those models. But I've heard that there are some BR players that won't work at all with older, non-HDTVs. I want something that will work, because I don't want to replace my televisions.
3) REGION A. I live near Chicago, and, so, stuff only available in another region will be useless to me.