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Picture is great and works great -- only thing is I did have a disc get stuck one and had to take the cover off to get it out.
I refuse to have another Sony product in my home from this day on. I bought this DVD changer in October '07 and by July '08 it has started to die as described in other reviews. It takes forever to change chapters, it won't play legitimate disks I have recorded from tv, and it even refuses to play some store bought concert DVDs dropping back to the menu after a five minute stall. There was a time Sony meant quality, but this is a heap of excrement. Add to that what Sony has done to people's computers with their copy protection malwear, I would say they are the lowest form of business out there and should be avoided at all costs.
(The Panasonic HT-830 I just trashed had the absolute worst layout for a remote I have ever seen. I am not quite the A/V connoisseur as some reviewers are - I'm significantly less discriminating. Video is fine from the DVDs. Also it is not universal - can't control any other device.While this is certainly a good player as far as the "neat" features it has - especially being able to swap out DVDs with the tray open WHILE you are watching another DVD - that's a killer feature that I love called Exchange. Also each slot number is between two slots and I have mistaken which slot I used on more than one occasion.3) The remote control is terrible. Changed batteries 3 times and I am only 7 feet away, but it literally takes two presses for each button.
The things that I dislike about this DVD player are as follows:1) The unit is extremely slow. I don't generally use it for anything else - just watching DVDs, though it does claim to play a lot of other types of disk. Powering on, and especially when starting any DVD. It says "loading." for much longer than any other DVD player I have used. I have had this unit for just about two months now. Maybe it is these "old eyes" of mine, but where my entertainment center is there is no direct light shining down, and I can't tell what number is next to the slots in the tray without shining a pocket flashlight on it. No exaggeration - that is the truth.
I mean really bad. Thin and light, I will give it credit for at least having all the necessary buttons in logical places in the remote. Some DVDs take 30 seconds or more just to load and show anything at all. But it looks as good to me as any I have seen. NO Open/close Tray button on top, but instead it was listed in the middle of its 100+ buttons and required a SHIFT press).
Perhaps this is required in a unit that plays very high quality, but to me it is just annoying. Too long in my opinion.2) Another reviewer mentioned how difficult it is to see the numbers of the slots when the tray is open - and that's an understatement. The Sony remote for this player for some reason requires that I press every button twice. But the not-so-great remote and the excruciatingly SLOW loading times costs it 2 stars, and give this player a grand total of 3 stars.For the price, though, it is a good deal.
I bought this player for two reasons. It seems a little flimsy, but the general build of the player is solid and the case is actually metal. This feature works flawlessly.
Don't overlook the convenience of a multi-disk player. I've had no malfunctions with this player. If you enjoy music, having to constantly feed a CD tray becomes a little irritating.
On most movies from 8-10 feet away it is hard to tell the difference from the output of my Sony Blu-Ray player I bought afterwards (I hate to admit this, but it's true). Just load it up and it plays for hours. I also wanted a player that would upsample standard DVDs to my 1080p television.
The only thing that bothers me is the build of the CD tray itself. I am very satisfied with this product.
My favorite function on my old component was the "all disc shuffle" function, which was also a button on the component (no TV needed for the display). I bought this player to replace my old 5 cd carousel changer. This one can only shuffle within one disc, but I don't see the point in that. For me it was a bonus feature to have DVD playback. Sony's priority is the DVD playback, not CDs. I also don't like where the remote sensor is because I have to leave the door open to my entertainment center to use the remote. This defeats the purpose of a closed door that keeps little hands away from the equipment and media.
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