Sony DVP-CX985V 400 Disc Progressive DVD / SACD Player
DVP-CX985V does a good job for the price.
I have been using this machine for about 2 months now. I have loaded about 210 dvds and 150 cds, all play quite nicely. I have not noticed any scratching of any of these disks. I recommend checking for this, in case your machine has a manufacturing defect, as has been (questionably) reported. Also, read the instructions of your equipment thoroughly, before hooking up all the connections to all of your equipment--this may help to ensure that quality signals are tranfered from your player. I have a nice home theater system set up with this player--it performs quite well, with very good picture and sound. I have backed up copies of some of my DVDs and CDs (not always easy to do with todays copy protection schemes), and these also play nicely in this player. I have even added jacket picture, and text information to my copies, which show up perfectly in this players folder system (you can find info on how to do this on the internet). If some of you are trying to play poorly copied disks, the player will have problems playing those disks. If you try to play disks that the player was not designed to play, it may not play them. This is a realitively inexpensive machine, and still could use some improvements: the speed of changing disks is somewhat slow (to be expected with a 400-disk changer?), the display and management of disk information, and searching abilities, could be vastly improved upon, although the present design does work in a very limited, and minimal, way. I do keep a list of my disks handy beside me when I am already playing something, and do not wish to stop the player, to access the folder mode. I have had no problems shuffling, randomly, in order, all disks, disks in a special folder, or only a certain set of disks. I think some reviewers did not read through the instruction manual before writing their reviews. I feel the player is a fine value for the money. 4 stars.