Sony DVPCX995V 400-Disc DVD Mega Changer/Player (2009 Model)
Its nice....but not user friendly
I bought this DVD player for 1 main reason: I wanted a place to store all the DVDs I currently own. I thought this would be the perfect solution for the 300+ DVDs that I own instead of building a large entertainment center to hold all the DVD cases. Being that it was a Sony and the price was under $300, it became a done deal. The unit is a little large and would not fit in the space that I had originally considered, but that is ok. The picture it creates is nothing less than gorgeous and I am more than happy with that. The reason I gave the unit only 3 stars is because of its very poor user interface when having to deal with all the DVDs.  <br /> <br />Obviously if someone is buying this machine it is because they have a large amount of DVDs to store in it. I feel that Sony could have done a better job at manipulating these DVDs when trying to find something to watch. Let me give you an example: Imagine you have 300 DVDs stored in the machine and you bring up what they refer to as the \\"folder\\". (This is where all your DVDs are listed.) Imagine that is is currently focused on DVD #2 and you want to scroll down to the end of the list to see what you have available to watch. Lets say you want to scroll down to about DVD #250. Well you have to click that remote control arrow 248 times to get there! There are no page down or page up buttons to quickly manuever around the DVD list. There is no function to search the titles. I feel this section of the design was not even user tested because it is very irritating. <br /> <br />Only about 50% of the DVDs I loaded into the machine have title information available on them. This means I have to manually edit each one that does not have the info. Sure, you can attach a keyboard and that helps a little. But you still need to use the remote control to move through the DVD list. What would have been nice is if the machine could be given a text file containing all the information that one could prepare on a home computer and pass toit. If and when my power goes out...and I discover that all my work at inputting title information is lost, I am going to be one unhappy camper.  <br /> <br />Now on to the biggest complaint. Every single time you start the machine, it automatically plays the first disc it can find. You have no idea what a pain that is. If you just happen to have a disc that forces you to watch previews and warning messages, then you are stuck until they are finished. There IS a troublshooting section that specifically mentions this problem and a solution. But the solution does not work. The setup option that controls it, has no effect !  <br /> <br />Hopefully in a year or so, someone will come out with a better unit and I will get rid of this one. It is disappointing, because I felt Sony was a leader in electronics and I feel they dropped the ball on this one. For now, it is nice to have all the DVDs loaded in a machine, the DVD cases stored away and everything is cleaned up. That was my main goal.