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| A reliable 400-disc changer that holds your entire movie and music library / Progressive output for amazing clarity SONY DVP-CX985V -- Forget about space-eating shelf units and wall racks -- this 400-disc changer holds your entire movie and Music library, and every disc is ready to cue up and play! SONY jukebox players are so reliable they're used in more retail music demo installations than any other brand! Precision Cinema Progressive Output for astonishing clarity 12-bit DAC and 108MHz Processing with NSV delivers superb Video Playback capabilities include DVD-Video, DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW, CD-R/RW, Multi-Channel SACD™ discs, even MP3 discs Find your favorites easily with DiscExplorer On Screen Management 12-bit 108mHz Video DAC Precision Drive 2 System compensates for warps and other imperfections in the disc being played, resulting in virtually fail safe error correction 96kHz / 24-bit Linear PCM Audio decoding Coaxial and Optical Digital Outputs for Optional external Dolby Digital or DTS Surround processing 5.1 channel output for SACD™ playback Component, Composite & S-Video outputs Size: 7.4"H x 17"W x 21.1"D; weighs about 19.2 pounds From J&R for $399 Sony DVP-CX985V 400 Disc Progressive DVD / SACD Player From Amazon (US) for |
Works out of the box, but not for very long. (Rating: 2.00) Review : I bought one of these players, upgrading from a Sony 300+1 disk player that had been filled and because I also wanted the progressive scan my older unit had lacked. The slowness of the Disk Exployer has always been a problem that I was use to, so that was nothing new to me. A wireless keyboard makes a GREAT difference when putting in movie names, howerver it still took me about two weekends to program 320 DVD titles (about 5% of which had been pre-programmed with DVD-Text). The first problem showed up as I was loading the movies from the old player. Slot number 141 would not load a disk into the drive, no matter what disk I put into the slot. This was a minor problem as I had 399 working slots. The bigger problem showed up after I had put in about 380 DVD's (about seven months into ownership). The unit started acting up. Sometimes the power would turn itself off for no reason, sometimes programmed disks would be lost from Disk Exployer and more then once the player would simply lock up while playing a disk - the picture would freeze and no responce from either the remote or front-panel buttons. I would have to unplug the unit to reset it. And on the 8th month, the power supply failed. I was on 383 DVD's, all programmed, with picture jackets ... I nearly cryed thinking of all the time it had taken to program the player. It has been in the shop now for two months. Luckly, I had not yet sold my old 300 disk changer, which is still working. For those that don't like programming in all those DVD titles, I have recently purchased the Kenwood DV5900, it links to your home computer and gets titles off the internet. It is a much better, though much more expensive unit ... and still supports changer linking (up to three), which the newer Sony units seem to lack. Outstanding unit, usable menu (Rating: 5.00) Review : Expectations are everything. My experience with the incompetence of the consumer A/V industry must lower mine. I've heard the complaints about the speed and clumsiness of this unit but I have no major complaints about it. I must admit that I place a higher priority on picture and audio quality, and this unit is awesome on both counts. In addition, the transport is well designed, quiet and well balanced. For those of you shopping for one of these, make sure you read the dimensions. This sucker is HUGE. It's much deeper than any of my other equipment, including my Sony ES receiver. I had to cut the back out of my A/V cabinet in order for it to fit. Again, no biggie. I'd have bought a new piece of furniture for it. The time required to set up this unit is nothing when compared with the nightmare of displaying, storing, and handling 350 DVDs. My wife and I spent about three hours inserting the discs and entering the titles, using a keyboard and a spreadsheet of our movies. It took me another hour to divide the DVDs into the four included groups in the Disc Explorer. I divided them into Family, Action, CDM (Comedy Drama Musical) and Other (special features, yoga, documentaries). Seems to work so far for me. Is the Disc Explorer the greatest thing in the world? Nope, but it works fine if you are too lazy to have a printout of your movies nearby. The best part is that it's not required in order to use the unit, which gives you lots of flexibility. If you are serious about your video system, use DVDlobby and you'll never use Disk Explorer again. I've heard complaints about the speed of the transport on this unit. Again, expectations are everything. How long does it take to look through the movies in your media cabinet, decide which one you want, open the sometimes bizzarre packaging, load the disc into your player, take the old one out, and put it away? With this unit, it takes 18 seconds to load and play a disk on the opposite side of the platter. It takes 9 seconds to go from viewing a movie to viewing the Disk Explorer. It takes about 4 minutes to navigate through all 400 disks with the Disk Explorer. It's faster if you don't add pictures to the disc names, and some of the names from the disk manufacturers are just wrong, so you might be better off not letting the unit detect your disks. The only movie I had a real problem creating a title for was Confessions of a Dangerous Mind since there was only room for "Conf/Dangerous M". I settled for "Dangerous Mind". I know my movies well enough that I don't require an entire paragraph to remind me. If you are interested in using this unit for SACD, remember that you must have a 5.1 channel input on your receiver. If you have more CDs than DVDs, don't expect this thing to be a good CD player. It isn't, but I've never seen a DVD player that was. Buy a megaCD changer and save yourself the trouble. |
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