Sony DVP CX875P DVD changer
Great price, feature packed but slow and clumsy to use
The SONY 300 disc DVD jukebox has more features than most people will want to take the trouble to learn to use. It holds 300 discs plus one in an &quot;EZ play&quot; slot for easily inserting rented discs. The machine has a slow and complicated process for entering the information about the disc on the on-screen folder display. The contol buttons are unresponsive. Pressing any button on the remote or the front display is followed by an annoying pause during which you're uncertain if it will perform the function requested. It is possible to capture an on-screen image from the DVD to use as a label for the discs listing. Switching from play mode to displaying the folders showing all the discs contained in the player is very slow. The disc being played is ejected from the play postion and put back in the rack. There is a delay of ten seconds befoer the folder listings appear. I can seen no reason why this can't be done instantly. The player is able to flip a &quot;flipper&quot; disc, a feature I have never seen on any other DVD player before, it will do so automatincally if you put the disc in the wrong way. The player has an annoying on screen display the often says &quot;Function prohibited by disc,&quot; for example when you want to see the main menu during the FBI warning. Other functions are adjusted through a confusing multi-level menu.<BR>About one-third of my DVDs were able to fill out the folder listings automatically, all others needed a tedious several minutes long process to enter the disc's information. Despite these numerous complaints and shortcomings, it's still easier than having to get up and look at the spines of DVD jewel boxes on your shelf, pick one out and load it into your single-disc layer