Sony DVP-CX985V 400 Disc Progressive DVD / SACD Player
Works out of the box, but not for very long.
I bought one of these players, upgrading from a Sony 300+1 disk player that had been filled and because I also wanted the progressive scan my older unit had lacked.  The slowness of the Disk Exployer has always been a problem that I was use to, so that was nothing new to me.  A wireless keyboard makes a GREAT difference when putting in movie names, howerver it still took me about two weekends to program 320 DVD titles (about 5% of which had been pre-programmed with DVD-Text).<BR>The first problem showed up as I was loading the movies from the old player.  Slot number 141 would not load a disk into the drive, no matter what disk I put into the slot.  This was a minor problem as I had 399 working slots.<BR>The bigger problem showed up after I had put in about 380 DVD's (about seven months into ownership).  The unit started acting up.  Sometimes the power would turn itself off for no reason, sometimes programmed disks would be lost from Disk Exployer and more then once the player would simply lock up while playing a disk - the picture would freeze and no responce from either the remote or front-panel buttons.  I would have to unplug the unit to reset it.<BR>And on the 8th month, the power supply failed.  I was on 383 DVD's, all programmed, with picture jackets ... I nearly cryed  thinking of all the time it had taken to program the player.  It has been in the shop now for two months.  Luckly, I had not yet sold my old 300 disk changer, which is still working.<BR>For those that don't like programming in all those DVD titles, I have recently purchased the Kenwood DV5900, it links to your home computer and gets titles off the internet.  It is a much better, though much more expensive unit ... and still supports changer linking (up to three), which the newer Sony units seem to lack.