Sony DVP-NS425P Progressive Scan DVD Player, Silver
Bad playback problems, random stops while playing DVDs
This was my first DVD player, because my kids were getting sick and tired of playing DVDs on my computer. <br />The first one (DVP-NS425P)I got had what I considered to be serious playback problems. <br />While playing various DVD disks, it did not play the video smoothly, but would stop for a fraction of a second at random places during the film, before continuing smoothly. This happened several times while playing the same disk. When I scanned back past the spot where this happened, and then replayed the same section again, it did not happen again. But it would happen again at a different spot, and when I scanned back and replay again, the same thing happened; it played fine. <br />Another way to describe the problem is, that the disc seems to \\"stutter\\" at random spots. These are never the same spot on the individual disks. It happened with almost every disk I played. I have only played movie disks, that I own or rent. I have not played any DVD -R, -RW, +R or +RW disks. <br />The last time this happened was with a brand new DVD disk, fresh out of the box. <br />Thinking that I just had a faulty player, I went back to the store to exchange it for a new one. Unfortunately the new one does exactly the same thing. Except it does it worse. The random stops are now much longer.  The player is being returned of a refund.  I will not get a new one.<br />As far as I am concerned, this is a bad DVD player. On top of that, SONY tech support has been unhelpful and outright incompetent.