Sony DVP-NC80V/B SACD DVD Changer, Black
Audio ~ Best on market
First off, I don't have a TV. So, I could care less about the video or playback quality.<br /><br />What I care about? Sound.<br /><br />First off, this unit plays audio, whether it be commercial encodings or mp3s, off of CD, CD-R/W, DVD+R/W, DVD-R/W, SACD, and DVD-A (well, yeah, it's a DVD player...).<br /><br />Why should you care? well, you've probably got a few gigs worth of mp3s from iTunes, or whatever, and maybe you've ripped a bunch of your commercial Audio CDs to mp3.. well.. maybe you might want to burn off all of it to one DVD-R. merely place it into the carrousel, and all 50 (up to 200 on one disc) albums are available. and they sound FANTASTIC.<br /><br />Also, this unit outputs to either coaxial digital or digital optical. (Save the cash, and use the included RCA A/V cable as your coaxial digital cable.)<br /><br />For the money, no other unit touches the feature list of this player. Comparing the other carousel units (Onkyo, Panasonic, ...) none of them STATE that they will play mp3 off of a DVD disc, and most don't even support both burnable dvd formats.<br /><br />For me, there was NO QUESTION WHATSOEVER as to what unit would be the source for my audio system. I can pop in 5 DVDs of Mp3'd albums.. and have an all night party.<br /><br />Issues:<br /><br /> The lcd is hard to see if you are close, and at a tight angle.. but, step back 6 feet and you can read it just fine, so, small potatoes.<br /><br /> The LCD display doesn't display the directory/file names while playing, on the 'track' number. (difficult unless you printout a list of directories on a data DVD/CD).<br /><br />Notes:<br /><br /> You can replace discs during play by hitting 'exchange'. (wish people that reviewed stuff would read manuals before posting)<br /><br /> In Data disc mode, it counts jpgs as tracks, so keep that in mind when navigating with no video output.<br /><br />I only give it 4 stars because it is still called a DVD player. Sony (or someone) should be smart and just make something called a media player... that should handle being a video source and a audio source.. and give decent hardware LCD output.. the last thing I want is a huge power-sucking tv having to be on to flip through some audio files on a disc.ake something called a media player... that should handle being a video source and a audio source.. and give decent hardware LCD output.. the last thing I want is a huge power-sucking tv having to be on to flip through some audio files on a disc.