Sony DVP CX875P DVD changer
What Happened to Sony?!?
I purchased this DVD player with the same utopian dreams everyone else had; I can put all my DVDs in one convenient place, quickly scroll thorugh the menu and find the movie I want to play, and put all my DVD cases in a box in the garage.    I can put all my DVDs in one place, but there is nothing quick or convenient about it.  First of all, the title line in the menu is ridiculously short.  Only the short titles fit.  For example, \\"Blow\\" is not a problem, but if you want to put in the title \\"Planes, Trains and Automobiles\\"  you will have to enter it as \\"P/T and Autos\\"...that is all you have room for.  What is even more aggravating is that some discs automatically load the title. Those discs not only get more room on the title line, but also get a second line below the tile.  Heaven forbid the general public get the same number of characters to work with.  In addition, the discs that do automatically load the titles load as for example \\"The Best of Friends\\" or \\"The Big Lebowski\\" so you do not find \\"The Big Lebowski\\" in the \\"Bs\\" you have to go to the \\"Ts\\" and scroll through the endless number of titles that start with \\"The\\".  What makes it worse is that you can not go in and change the titles on the discs that automatically load. You are stuck with the title that is loaded.  Some discs will even load as for example \\"Directors Cut Basic Instinct\\" so once again instead of going to the \\"Bs\\" I have to find \\"Basic Instinct\\" in the \\"Ds\\".  Is it just me or should someone have thought of that before releasing this?    There is also a feature in the menu that lets you enter a frame from the movie.  On the discs that automatically load, often times it will load the disc cover in the frame.  Unfortunately, many of the movies just load scrambled nothing-ness.  \\"Rocky IV\\" loaded as a green blob with a red frame.  That might be cool in a modern art museum, but not in my menu screen.    Regarding the disc loading.  It is as though an \\"evil spirit\\" possesses the machine periodicallyand decides to hide a DVD somewhere else.  One disc will end up being put in an entirely different slot.  I then have to manually find the disc and put it back and for some reason tiles just disappear. I can not tell you how many times I have lost information I have loaded.  Mechanically speaking, the loader does not work either.  I am to the point that if I want to watch disc #100 I have to manually remove disc #99 or it will not load.    Something else that bothers me is all the propaganda out there that this player plays both sides of the disc.  Mine certainly does not.  When I come to the end of side one, it loads the next disc...sometimes.  Otherwise it locks up and I get an error code.    My machine also has a bad optical sensor.  Need I say more.  It is off to the repair man I go.  I wonder if the electronics repair man can fix sledge-hammer damage?    I would like to know who at Sony decided to release this plague upon the world...I would also like the two Saturdays of my life back that I spent programming and loading all the titles...and my money back...but that will not happen because my 1 year warranty ran out.  How convenient.