Sony DVPCX995V 400-Disc DVD Mega Changer/Player (2009 Model)
It's good, but not great
PROS: <br />1) It's great to have 400 discs in one small, but not too small, unit.  It is 27.5\\" deep.  I can store the covers away and regain a lot of shelf space. <br />2) Contrary to most reviews, you CAN insert as many discs as you want and do NOT have to title them.  If you keep a manual record of what slot number you entered the disc, then you can dial up that number.  You do not have to enter the title.  Agreed, it would make it easier in the long run to enter the titles. <br /> <br />CONS: <br />1) It's slow.  You have to keep in mind that it is moving a big carousel around.  It does that pretty well.  It's just the time it takes to stop playing a disc, spinning around to another and loading it up to start playing.  To me, it just takes longer than I think it should. <br />2) You have to have the remote control unit more in line to the front of the unit than the old Sony that I had.  I had to angle the unit towards me on the shelf so it would work. <br />3) The remote control unit \\"feels\\" cheap.  It's small and lightweight.  It also does not light up like the old Sony unit.  My older remote had the glow-in-the-dark keys.  The new one does not. <br />4) The biggest disappointment to me is how hard it is to navigate to another disc.  If you do not have the manual list of slot numbers, you WILL have to enter the disc info into the system.  The unit has a LOAD button that you can push.  It then takes a LONG time (about a minute per disc) to analyze each disc to see if it can pull off any data from it.  It determines what kind of disc it is: music CD or video DVD, etc.  It also tries to get the movie title, too.  Out of the 200 discs I have loaded so far, it has only been able to get this information off of 13 discs.  That means I will have to enter the other 187 manually.  You can enter the data either by the remote control (VERY SLOW), or use a PS/2 keyboard that you hook up to the front of the unit.  I have yet to get one to see how well it goes. <br />But I dowish that Sony would allow you to enter a slot number from the remote and the unit would go there.  It would be so great to be able to key in 137 and press enter to go to that disc.  But you cannot.  On the remote, there is a slider button at the top that you have to slide.  To the left it controls a TV, center: the Carousel, right: DVD functions.  So first you have to slide the switch to the center, hit the File button, and browse up and down until you find the title you want, then press the Enter button to select that title, then Enter again to select Play.  Now you have to slide the switch to the Left to access the DVD functions. <br /> <br />Overall, the experience is just not what I expected.  It's not smooth and convenient to me.  I would definitely like to see Sony make these few enhancements to make the unit exceptional. <br /> <br />Would I buy it again?  Maybe.  Probably.  I did a lot of research and it IS the best unit available.  It just isn't as good as it could be.  I bought mine at 6th Avenue for $297 plus $0.06 shipping!  That was definitely the BEST pricing around at the time.  I received it in one week.