Sony DVPCX995V 400-Disc DVD Mega Changer/Player | List Price: $399.99
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Brand: Sony
Binding: Electronics
Warranty: 1 Year Limited Warranty
Features: - 400-disc mega DVD and SACD changer; measures 17 x 7.8 x 21.1 inches (WxHxD)
- Up-converts video to high-definition (1080i/720p) resolution
- Compatible with SACD, DVD-RW/-R/+RW/+R, MP3, JPEG, CD-RW/-R, VCD and SVCD formats
- Outputs: 1 HDMI, 1 component, 2 S-Video, 2 composite, 1 coaxial audio, 1 optical audio, 1 multi-channel
- Dolby Digital and DTS 5.1-channel output
BUYER BEWARE! It ruins your DVD collection! [Posted on 2008-08-07]
I've had mine for a couple of years.... Loved it until recently I realized it scratched over 40 of my DVDs making them unplayable. What a nightmare.
I bought this to keep my DVDs from gettting scratched - Ironically it ruined a good chunk of my collection.
Sony Support would do nothing for me, except for "Sorry" and "you can pay for a repair!
I would advise you consider something else.
Not bad for the price... [Posted on 2008-08-25]
This device seems to work pretty well. The things I don't like are that its a real time consuming hassle entering DVD information. Few of my disks even autoload the title. I plugged in a keyboard and it helped getting titles in for a little while. Then the keyboard connection quit working and I was back to using the remote. It retrospect I would spend a little more and get a friendlier product...
Dream Come True [Posted on 2008-09-05]
I love this 400 disc changer, sure it takes time to load a disc, but it keeps the discs safe and scratch free, I might buy another one or 2 I collect TV shows onto DVD much better to have them where they are safe and usable. Don't let the negative reviews put you off this is the thing I have been dreaming about and at a price that is great.
DVP CX995V 400 Disc- DVD Mega Changer/Player [Posted on 2008-09-14]
This piece of equipment is a beast! I love it! It may not be perfect, but it upconverts to 1080, plays DVD-R and +R and DL DVDs. It gets rid of all those DVD cases and looks sexy in the cabinet. This is my 3rd one and I have hooked up in a series and it puts a great pictures on a Sony 60in screen. I know there is a move out there to put video on DVD, but if that fails you lose all the video. Here I have it all at the ready, protected in the case.
Pros- easy hookup, sharp looking, great performer, online updates for firmware from Sony, great upconversion
Cons- Big unit, remote functions not great manual is average -
Great DVD player, but appears to have planned obsolescence [Posted on 2008-09-21]
CONS: Have owned one of these for the past three years and over the past 6 months the unit started to have progressive failure. Firstly the player started to have intermittent problems reading discs, these problems started as the player failing to read discs during playing and freezing for a short time on an image on the screen on occasional discs. I thought the player was laser may have been dirty and ran a cleaning disc through the system and no difference. Then the frequency of problems picked up and the player would freeze for prolonged periods. Towards the end it was not possible to watch a movie without the unit freezing up completely. the piece-de-resistance came when trying to unfreeze a disc that the unit erased the 400 titles that I had entered into the player (say 350, because it actually identified the titles on about 50 of the discs that I entered).
PROs: In spite of the above I replaced the original unit with a new one. Why? Firstly the price was right and we have little kids and it is so easy to be able to pick a movie that they want to watch while sitting in the couch - no need to have discs hidden away from prying little hands. Also in the three years that we had the previous unit, and in spite of power outages, we never lost the details of all the discs that we had entered into the unit, unlike other reviewers here.
One word of caution it is a lot easier to enter the movie titles when using a keyboard (PS2 connection, not USB). However I had to try three different keyboards until I found one that had the relatively low wattage requirements needed for the player to pick up my keystrokes.
The disc sorting by title, number or genre makes it easy to find a movie.
The picture is beautiful when attached to a 50 inch plasma screen via component output.
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