Sony DVP-NC600 5-Disc Carousel Changer
A good performer ... (updated review)
I have been doing some online research for a solid/reliable DVD player under [a certain amount] for a while.  Models I have been looking include some very popular ones like Panasonic RV32K (or RV22K sold at [local retailer]), Toshiba 2710 and others, and SONY NS315B/NC600.  <br />For Panasonic, lots of complaints about that 'H02' error code which seems to me a definately bug with their decoding system.  <br />For Toshiba, I also saw lots of quality complaints, like skipping, freezing, looping, etc.  The problems are fairly consistant and similar.<br />For SONY, there are also some complaints, BUT they look like random quality problems instead of design flaws. <br />Features from NC600 that I give thumb-up are:<BR>1. 'precision drive 2 system' which can read some imprefect disks (at least according to SONY);<BR>2. 5-Disk changer--since I listen to a lot of music CD's.  Also lots of DVDs have 2-disk versions in now days.<BR>3. fairly quiet operation.  (I've been running on my Xbox for my DVD/CD for a while and man they are noisy!).<br />I have a DVD ('Snow White' from Disney, new) which freezes in Ch.25 occasionally with my other DVD player, but runs fine with SONY.  My Xbox skips (track 18 and after) on my CD -- \\"GH of America\\" but runs fine on SONY as well.   I only got this player recently, 5/02, from [local retailer] for [dollar amount], not a bad deal, therefore I don't how reliable it will be.   Judging from my other SONY products: TV, VCR, cassette player,  it should be another good performer as well.<br />Only puzzle to me is that the model on the Box says \\"DVP-NC600/B\\", but on the unit/manual it is \\"DVP-NC600\\" with the \\"/B\\" part. ...<BR>---------------------------------------<BR>above review was written 1 year and 4 month ago.<br />I accidently bumped into this thread again so I feel I'd give some update on the DVD player.   It has been running flawlessly and I've trid DVD, CD, CD-R, VCD and some are of really bad quality and all of them worked fine.  I'd have to say SONY did a good job in product quality control in this case!<br />Bravo SONY!