Sony DVP-C650D DVD Player
Not the best product by a longshot
I've owned this DVD carousel for about two years, and I bought it because, at the time, it seemed to be the highest quality carousel around.  I will discuss features/issues, then ownership experience.<br />On the feature side, I have found this player very inconvenient compared to my Denon CD carousel.  It has a seperate button for disc exchange and opening the tray, so if you are playing something and decide to exchange a disc and hit the open button, you will take the currently playing disc, stop it from playing, and move it to the fore.  Of course, I habitually hit the open button, and this drives me absolutely nuts.  Given that the open button is about three times the size, I'm thinking I'm not the only one with this mental block.  Wouldn't it have been easier to just have one button, and assume if something was playing you didn't want to stop it?<br />The remote is another area where this is an annoying unit.  There is no &quot;next disc&quot; button.  So if you have multiple discs in, and want to switch them, you better know which disc is in which slot.  They have a feature called &quot;disc explorer&quot; which is supposed to solve this, but I have never been able to get it to recognize the names correctly off of DVDs, and it doesn't work at all with CDs.  This is just annoying, and a bad design choice.<br />Other than these features, it is really fairly basic.  Because it doesn't stand out, I rated it fairly low for features/design.<br />Where it really deserves a lower grade from me is that I have owned this about two years, and it has died already.  My CD changer lasted almost 10 years with considerably more use.  There is no excuse for a DVD/CD laser going out in two years from a home machine these days.  I won't be buying another Sony product involving a laser again.