Sony DVP-NS50P/S Single DVD Player, Silver
Nice little machine, I'm glad I bought it
I'd read reviews here & elsewhere for various brands of players and decided I'd get a Sony.   I was surprised at how small this thing is, I've got books bigger than it is!  My brother & I set it up, not too difficult altough the manual could be a little clearer on some aspects (to me anyway), leaving the settings on factory default (except for setting the screen for  my standard 4:3 TV and turning off the progressive scan- which the manual tells you how to do)and have found the picture to be fine just as it is.  The sound, I think the manual says something about this, does seem to need to be turned up but is good. The picture has been good on everything I've looked at with the occaisional exception of the movie \\"Purple Butterfly\\", dark scenes needed some adjustment on it- not worth trying to reset things for.  The remote isn't bad to use either, you likely won't use half of the functions even after you understand them so don't be bothered by the sight of all of those buttons. You get a zoom function, kind of a joke as it is 2X and 4X, but you can get a little closer look at parts of a scene, the quality depends on the original of course. There are a couple of buttons marked step- replay or advance, replay means what it says, advance speeds you through a short bit of the scene- not worht much to me. You also have the usual next and previous buttons. A couple of odd features are the slow play & fast play buttons, you use them to go slowly or quickly through a scene with (appropriately affected)audio, not worth much to me.  Every CD or DVD I've tried so far has been flawless on the part of the player. I do wish that there was a means of having my TV go blackscreen as if you run a CD more than 15 minutes it goes to screensaver function which is a blue bar reading Sony DVD Player moving around a black screen.  Most places don't mention that when you buy this player you will get an audio/video cable as part of the kit. Depending on your own placement of the TV/player youmight want to go ahead and get something longer. That little cable seems to produce a good picture but it's only about 3 feet long, if I get tired of that I may go ahead and use the 6 foot S-video cable I already had. You should be sure of what your own TV can use before you buy anything.  Other than the almost too short cable I don't really have any complaints and I'm glad I made this purchase.