Sony DVPCX995V 400-Disc DVD Mega Changer/Player (2009 Model)
Yikes! What have I got myself into
Its pretty much been well reviewed here. Just to reiterate some points and clarify a few others. First off, this player DOES play DVD-R disks, I know, I have done so! Plays just fine if you know how to properly burn a disk, DVD-R can play ;-)<br /><br />Fair WARNING you may think you have enough room in your entertainment center, think again. I thought I had enough room with my behemoth of an entertainment center. But you are not aware of an additional extention on the rear panel that sticks out alot (this houses the actual disk player). Do yourself a favor and double check the measurments. I nearly was forced to either remove the cabinet doors or chop out the back panel of the entertainment panel (so hate doing that) or even return the unit. I got very lucky and it just barely fits.<br /><br />OK, other than those points, the player function itself resides with being just a giant DVD/CD storage unit. Depending upon how you look at it, it is either a very simple player or a very complicated player. Noting is intuitive about this player! It is relatively quiet. It is slow. It is annoying to get hanged up with those FBI warning screens, the player does, as mentioned before, upon power on autoplay the first disk, nothing you can do to stop it, and your forced to watch the FBI warning unless you proactively remember to do as stated to try and avoid this happening (at the end of a movie hit stop once so next time you can power on and just go to any of the menu sytems).<br /><br />God help me if I have to move it. I am not going to even try to with out first removing the disks inside as recommended. Just looking at it I believe others comments about the likelyhood of things getting jammed. But that means having to fully remove all the disks and then you guessed it, having to reinput ALL the data if disks are not keep in there specific order.<br /><br />This is by no means a solution. I purchased from Amazon for $279 with free ground shipping (not to mention additional $30 off, net price of $249 how can I pass that up). It was here in record breaking time 2 days! If it was not for the price, I do not think I would have taken this challenge. Overall, I am OK with it. It does \\"clean\\" up my living space. Thats basicly all that it has going for it which is its main selling point.<br /><br />EDIT-<br /><br />I just scanned reviews for the previous model 985V, and an alarming situation has been brought to my attention, it seems that there is a possibility for disk damage! You can read all about it on the other product page. This in all suggests inorder to safeguard and ironicly better the disk info and autoplay bug/glitch, that you copy your disks first, in addition strip the FBI warning out, and preinput all the disk info. And then the system will operate much more smoothly. Caution in regards to the possible disk scratching issue, check your disks weekly, randomly, while still within the return period!<br /><br />EDIT-<br /><br />DISCOVERED A WORK AROUND TO KILL THE FBI WARNING SCREENS IT APPEARS THAT IF YOU USE THE FAST FOWARD, CHAPTER SKIP BUTTONS I.E. \\"NEXT\\", YOU GET TO JUMP PAST THE WAIT AND THEN CAN QUICKLY EXIT OUT. THIS WORKS ON MAJORITY OF WARNING SCREENS, THERE WAS A VERY FEW THAT IT DID NOT WORK FOR. Someone mentioned about CNET review saying use of the FOLDER button is also a work around but I have found that that does not work. After a week, getting a little more comfortable, but am still very weary about the disk scratching issues, still doing random checks before return period expires.I pass that up). It was here in record breaking time 2 days! If it was not for the price, I do not think I would have taken this challenge. Overall, I am OK with it. It does \\"clean\\" up my living space. Thats basicly all that it has going for it which is its main selling point.    EDIT-    I just scanned reviews for the previous model 985V, and an alarming situation has been brought to my attention, it seems that there is a possibility for disk damage! You can read all about it on the other product page. This in all suggests inorder to safeguard and ironicly better the disk info and autoplay bug/glitch, that you copy your disks first, in addition strip the FBI warning out, and preinput all the disk info. And then the system will operate much more smoothly. Caution in regards to the possible disk scratching issue, check your disks weekly, randomly, while still within the return period!    EDIT-    DISCOVERED A WORK AROUND TO KILL THE FBI WARNING SCREENS IT APPEARS THAT IF YOU USE THE FAST FOWARD, CHAPTER SKIP BUTTONS I.E. \\"NEXT\\", YOU GET TO JUMP PAST THE WAIT AND THEN CAN QUICKLY EXIT OUT. THIS WORKS ON MAJORITY OF WARNING SCREENS, THERE WAS A VERY FEW THAT IT DID NOT WORK FOR. Someone mentioned about CNET review saying use of the FOLDER button is also a work around but I have found that that does not work. After a week, getting a little more comfortable, but am still very weary about the disk scratching issues, still doing random checks before return period expires.