Tag : changer player, 400 disc, dvd mega, sony dvpcx995v

Company : Sony List Price : $449.99 Amazon Price : Too low to display Used Price : $245.00 Average customer review :

Features

• 400-disc mega DVD and SACD changer; measures 17 x 7.8 x 21.1 inches (WxHxD)
• Up-converts video to high-definition (1080i/720p) resolution
• Compatible with SACD, DVD-RW/-R/+RW/+R, MP3, JPEG, CD-RW/-R, VCD and SVCD formats
• Outputs: 1 HDMI, 1 component, 2 S-Video, 2 composite, 1 coaxial audio, 1 optical audio, 1 multi-channel
• Dolby Digital and DTS 5.1-channel output

Amazon.com Product Description

Conveniently store your entire DVD library (or all your favorite CDs and Super Audio CDs) in the Sony DVPCX995V 400-disc, progressive scan Mega Changer–the perfect tool for organizing your media library as well as providing extraodinary high definition sound and video to your home theater. It up-scales video to high-definition (1080i/720p) resolution and transmits high quality audio through a High-Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI). It also features a redesigned Disc Explorer on-screen graphic interface, providing intuitive and easy access to the expansive disc library. With the ability to conveniently house and sort through 400 media discs, this cool player can eliminate the need for racks and racks of CD and DVD storage.

It features Sony’s Precision Cinema Progressive circuitry, Dolby Digital and DTS 5.1 channel outputs, and also offers coaxial and optical digital outputs. It’s compatible with DVD-RW/-R/+RW/+R, MP3, JPEG, CD-RW/-R, VCD and SVCD formats–so it can play just about any disc you have from movies and video to music. Other convenience features include multi-disc resume (40 discs), custom parental controls (on all 400 discs), playback memory (400 discs), background graphics that display on your TV while music plays, and a multi-brand remote control.

Tech Talk
HDMI (High-Definition Multimedia Interface).
This is a lossless, uncompressed, all-digital audio/video interface to link any audio/video source (such as a set-top box, DVD player, or AV receiver) with your TV or monitor.
Sony’s Precision Cinema Progressive. This feature detects image changes at the pixel level versus other types that detect image changes at the scan line level. Separate algorithms are used to process the moving and still parts of an image to achieve sharper backgrounds and moving objects that are free from motion artifacts.
SACD (Super Audio CD). Super Audio CD is a high-quality audio disc standard in which music is recorded in the DSD (Direct Stream Digital) format (where conventional CDs are recorded in the PCM format). Using a sampling frequency 64 times higher than PCM and with 1-bit quantization, the DSD format provides both a wide frequency range and a wide dynamic range across the audible frequency range, providing music reproduction that’s extremely faithful to the original source.
Sony’s 3:2 Reverse Pulldown

DVD mastering introduces a common distortion when adjusting 24 frames-per-second movies to 30 fps video; 3:2 reverse pulldown digitally corrects this distortion, removing the redundant information to display a film-frame-accurate picture. Composite- and S-video outputs bring compatibility with nearly any television.

Film and video use different numbers of frames
Conversion from 24 frames to 60 frames can cause motion blur, horizontal lines that flicker on and off, or an unnatural shimmer.

3-2 pulldown
The traditional method for converting film images to video for television: Take one film frame and split it into three video frames. Then take another film frame and split it into two video frames. The video frames are classified as odd or even.

DVD players and other electronics then take the 60-frames-per-second video, and send it to a TV for viewing.

3-2 reverse conversion
The process of converting 3-2 video back to movie-quality images at 24 frames per second. This allows the DVD player to combine the correct film frames, reproducing the film’s original picture quality and texture.
Sony’s Precision Cinema Progressive technology

Precision Cinema Progressive technology uses a 12-bit video DAC (digital-to-analog converter) with high-bandwidth, 108 MHz processing to detect image changes at the pixel level, rather than at the level of whole scan lines. That makes this player’s picture more faithful to the source–whether film or video–because it uses separate, optimized algorithms to handle different pixel behaviors. Separate algorithms are also used to process the moving and still parts of an image, resulting in sharp backgrounds with moving objects that are free from motion artifacts.

What’s in the Box
DVPCX995V DVD player, remote control, batteries, AV cord, printed instructions

Customer reviews

scratches Discs-BEWARE!
I OWN 3 OF THESE UNITS. A SHORT WHILE AGO MY DISCS STARTED TO FREEZE UP. I INSPECTED THEM AND FOUND THEY WERE ALL SCRATCHED , AT THE SAME PLACE, ABOUT .5″ FROM THE OUTER EDGE. ALL MY DISCS ARE RUINED! ALMOST 1200 OF THEM. I TRIED TO NOTIFY SONY ABOUT THIS PROBLEM AND GOT NOWHERE. I TRIED THE CD/DVD REPAIR KITS, BUT THEY DIDN’T HELP THE SCRATCHES ARE TOO DEEP. SONY CUSTOMER SERVICE SUCKS! I WILL NEVER BY SONY PRODUCTS AGAIN!

Very useful product
We have found this product to be very helpful in storing our DVDs. They aren’t getting scratched as much since they are stored in the player itself and the menu screen that lists all of the DVDs has been very helpful in locating the DVDs in the player. We are very happy with our purchase and the price we got from [...].

Needs a better menuing system…. seriously.
I am disappointed that this player doesn’t even read the menuing system on most published discs. It takes a very long time to prepare itself.

Fantastic machine!
I bought this machine with some trepidation after reading some of the reviews, but I was desperate to get all those discs off my coffee table! I must say it is one of the best electronics buys I have ever made. It is seamless. Yes, it takes a little patience to learn the software but after a couple of days everything is very intuitive. Yes, loading speed is a little slow and Sony in hindsight could have done a couple of things better but come on, it’s $300! And by the way, I accidently unplugged it for a couple of days this winter and guess what? All of my title entries were still there. Beautiful. My only problem is it’s almost full and I’ve got to figure a way to hook up another one in series. It’s the next best thing to having a $10,000 server.

Very useful product and relatively painless to use
This is a great space-saver for DVD and/or CD collections that start to get into the 100+ range. Bought this for my Dad and he loves it - loves the idea of being able to sit down, turn on the on-screen menu and sort/browse for the DVD he wants to watch without ever having to get up and hassle with fumbling to the put it in the DVD player, take it out, put it away, etc.

Other reviews said something about their discs getting scratched. As of this review which is about a few weeks post-buying this product, I cannot possibly fathom how the machine would scratch the discs; it must have been careless use and abuse or not knowing how to handle DVDs/CDs by the user. This is a lower-end Sony machine, so while it does not have all of the most expensive gold-plated connections and parts, it is a solidly engineered and manufactured system. You load the discs into a circular carousel *vertically* which is how I’m suspecting the users scratched their own discs through negligence.

The keyboard entry system and on-screen GUI for categorizing, organizing, and editing disc information is a little bit primitive for my taste, but the point is it works.

The system does NOT have random access to the movies stored in the system. Meaning one cannot say “I want to play disc #250″, punch in 2-5-0-Enter on the remote and load disc #250. That would be a nice additional feature for those of us with movie library catalogs that we maintain. The way the system is set up now, if you want to get to a particular movie you know you’ve got stored in the system, you must go through and browse for it using the supplied on-screen interface. This is actually nice visually, and if you want to browse by genre, or title, or even disc number. You can certainly jump by 1 or 10 discs at a time to get to the disc number you want, but random access would be a nice addition.

Overall though, for what this product’s intended purpose, it’s solid, a real time-saver, and quite functional. I’d even go as far to say that I’d buy another one at this price if my Dad collects another 400 DVDs!