6 out of 6 people found this review helpful.
Pretty good, but could be better
Date of Review: Jan 3, 2003
The Bottom Line: This is a good multi-disc player, but with some quirks that keep it from getting a really good score.
I have a little under a hundred DVD and would often misplace them around the house, so that's why I bought this 300 disc changer. I've had it for about a month now, so I figure it's been long enough to share my thoughts on it.
The video and sound quality is both good, the menu interface is easy to use, and it is quieter than my other DVD players (I can't even hear the disc spinning in this one). Unfortunately, it can't play both sides of a disc without manually turning it over. Also, there is no eject button, so getting the disc out is not quite as easy as it should be, especially if there are discs on either side of the single disc slot.
You can input the DVD titles by using the remote, a mouse, or a keyboard, although they don't give you very many characters per title. You can sort the list of DVD titles alphabetically, by slot number, or by artist, but it always defaults to sorting by slot number, which gets annoying fast. On the positive side, it can update new discs to the list without having to rescan all the discs.
The remote seems decent, but I really cannot comment on it as I use a learning universal remote.
Couple things I forgot to mention:
1) The alphabetic sort is sorted only by the first letter in the title, so all discs starting with the letter 'A' will be grouped together, but within that group all the titles will be sorted by slot number.
2) If a DVD already has a title, it will always show up instead of the title entered by the user unless a space is entered as the first character (this space does show up, counts as one of the characters, and affects the sorting)
3) It has never had problem recognizing any disc, nor has it ever skipped, and this includes all the discs that we rent from NetFlix.
Update (July 16, 2007):
Now that I have an HDTV, I though I should update this a bit. First off, it shows a lot of banding on my set. At least, I think it's called banding, where horizontal lines appear in areas of quick motion. I barely notice any banding using our other non-HD Sony DVD player, and both players are connected via s-video.
Also, even though you can connect two of these together, you can do so ONLY using s-video, NOT the RGB connections. I was quite disappointed to discover this when I was looking at switching my connections to RGB.
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