Sony DVP-NC625/B 5-Disc DVD/CD Changer, Black
Watch Out if you burn your own VCDs or SVCDs
We burn and use VCDs (Video Compact Discs) at work and we purchased one of these machines to play music CDs, in-house VCDs, and both in-house and commercial DVDs. The documentation claims that the player supports all of these and CD/RW. Not true. The machine will indeed play all of the above, it just doesn't do it very well. Commercial DVDs seem to work just fine as do music CDs, but this player is lousy at playing VCDs. The picture is very poor, much poorer than on any other desktop player that I have tried, and the audio is completely out-of-sync on VCDs. I couldn't believe that a Sony machine could be such a disaster, so we sent the machine back for a replacement. I had to assume that the first machine was faulty. Not so. The second player is just as bad as the first. This is a very poorly designed player, at least for video compact disks. We have not tried the player with our own DVDs and now that I think about it, we have not tried it with in-house music CDs. I would recommend caution with this player.