Sony DVP-CX985V 400 Disc Progressive DVD / SACD Player
It could be perfect
I purchased Sony DVP-CX985V 400 Disc Progressive DVD / SACD Player with only one thing in mind, ORGANIZATION. I have over 300 DVD movies and it has become a head ache to keep them all in their own boxes, more often than not I would have to go through my entire collection to find the DVD I was looking for. That was not only time consuming but bad for the DVDs themselves, since they get scratched more often that way. I know there are a lot of people out there who are taking much better care for their DVDs and would not have the same problem that I had but you would still have to handle your DVDs every time you want to watch it. That still increases your chances of scratching the disc. I also discovered an unexpected benefit of having the 400 DVD changer. How many times a close friend of yours asked you to borrow one of your DVDs with a promise to return it the very next day and never to see the movie again? It is not like they are trying to steal it from you but simply they forget about it ... including you. Now I do not let them borrow my DVDs without making myself looking like a jerk. I simply tell them that if I take out any of my DVDs from the machine I have to re-catalog all my DVDs and it takes hours to do that, so once a movie is in ... it stays in. :) It is not the case of course but gives me such a good excuse, they feel ashamed to insist on it knowing that borrowing a DVD would cause me a lot of work. If they don't care about it, you don't care in return. I have not lost a single DVD to \\"I will bring it back tomorrow\\" friends since I purchased the unit. That by itself paid for DVP-CX985V. The unit is easy to operate and has good picture and sound quality, it takes full advantage of the TV and sound system I have. It plays burned cds like mp3s, svcds. Mechanically it does everything I would like it to do. However DVP-CX985V is not perfect BUT I can be. The processor they used to display your DVDs on the screen is slow and out dated. It displays 5 titles at atime and scrolling up or down is pretty slow considering you can store up to 400 DVDs in there. It might take you 15-20 minutes to go through all the movies. It forces you to make a decision before going through them all, since you really do not want to repeat the process. You can separate your listing in to 4 different categories like comedy, action, drama, and else. This would narrow your options and speed up your search, but you have to enter each title manually into those categories, it is not automatic. It is not hard to do that but I long since forgot how to do it. The manual is somewhere in the house which I am usually too lazy to look for it. The folder can get the DVD information from the DVD and put the name and picture of the DVD automatically, BUT it happens only if you are lucky, I'd say 25% of the time I get the DVD information automatically, the rest of the time I plug the keyboard (you can do without the keyboard by using the remote but you have to have the patience of the god to do that)enter the title manually , then I have to start the movie sit through the legal announcements, find a good scene in the movie and pick that frame as the jacket so I would have something besides the name on the screen when I  browse through the catalog. This is all too time consuming but you would do it anyways because it feels and looks cool when you show it to your friends :)   The title of my review is \\"It could be perfect\\" because I dream about a DVP-CX985V that has internet connection where it retrieves the movie information directly from the movie database. It catalogs movies to your preference \\"alphabetical or by genre or by year or by actor or  by director\\" Displays more information besides the name of the movie (actors-director-year-awards even perhaps link to reviews) ability turn off the jackets so the screen would refresh faster or a faster processor which wouldn't lag. I wish for a search engine that can look up titles by actor or director or any relevantinformation using only your remote (a remote that has a mini keyboard built in)You might be a collector but you might not know all the facts about the movie you are collecting. I dream about a DVP-CX985V that would know all that and let you know if you want to know them as well.  I really enjoy having this unit and ready for more.