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5 comments about Sony DVP CX875P - DVD changer - black.

1. Great DVD player.Worth the price.It's so neat to be able to scroll through the discs,instead of digging out your cases to find the movie you want to watch.The scrolling features are slow,But your watching the movie most of the time anyways.I have my player compleatly full of 300 DVDs,I'm going to buy another player,so I can use one for a master and the other for a slave.I would recommend this product for you DVD collectors.



2. I have purchased the CX 860 and have purchased two of the CX875P and all of them continue to have the same problem with the opitcal sensor going bad (the sensor that reads the dvd). I have had two of the units already repaired and they are broke again and the last one I purchased 6 months ago just broke last week and now I am sending that one in to be repaired. I am tried of repairing these things. I was smart this time and bought the extended warranty on the dvd player, but the previous two I did not. I wonder why they want us to buy that extended warranty? because they know that these things are crap. I was told it was just bad luck (from a Sony Rep) that all three have had the same problem.....I don't think it is bad luck...I think there is something wrong with these dvd players



3. The device is easy to install, outlets are well labeled, the documentation is all right.
   
   The picture and sound quality is certainly good enough for 99% of all potential buyers. DTS is supported.
   
   The device reads numerous media. Movies on DVD as well as VCD are supported. Audio CD's, including MP3, are supported, although MP3 files on DVD are not accessable (sadly only on CD).
   
   Buyers of international movies will be hit by the DVD region mafia methods. The player can play movies from one region only. So much about fair trade and free speech.
   
   The software of this device is of very poor quality. It is not just a primitive CPU at fault here. The menus are too slow. Information (e.g. "flip" disk) gets lost. Sometimes the menu would produce only the background color with a frame, but no other information. In this case the user has to turn off the device and reset it by turning it on again. There are also insufficient possibilities to interrupt an action, for example if the loading mechanism fails (see below), after startup, or just to get the menu when the player thinks it should start a DVD (happens every time during startup and between movies, no matter what the settings are, annoying). The device has no timed auto-shutdown, no start timer, no clock (would require additional $1 clock IC). The title field in the menu for each disk is too short, especially for multi-title DVD's or double-sided disks with different titles on each side (e.g. double-sided DVD-R media). You can also store only one picture per disk, although the player can flip each disk. The player has no option to automatically continue a movie on the second side of a flip disk, it always grabs the next disk instead.
   
   So far I had two disks which would actually freeze the entire device while playing a movie. This is even more serious than slow, low quality menus.
   
   The most important design feature of this device is the library with its disk loader. Unfortunately the loader fails about once every fourth time, and depending on the load of the library, the disk distribution and whether a disk is located between two other disks or not, there are regions where the mechanism cannot load any disk reliably! Even perfect leveling of the device does not help (shelves can be tilted a bit). Different media, same result. Once one of my disks got stuck while loading and the drive then tipped all my 200+ disks like a domino game. The disk carousel then ran over all disks, scratching them with the carousel's bottom disk slots. And there was no possibility to turn off the device and then turn it on again to open the door without starting the carousel automatically every time. In fact, the door would not open at all, only with force by hand. These are really a major design flaws which blow every DVD experience with this gadget. And they can become quite expensive.
   
   Until the serious issues are fixed think twice before you buy this player or any of its successors.



4. I can concure with all the problems everyone here has attested to. I have taken it back for repair of the optical sensor twice and it still does not work all the time. Its software is really bad (speaking as a programmer). After more than one disappointing evening in which we could view a rented DVD, my wife is ready to through this out the window.



5. I purchased this DVD player with the same utopian dreams everyone else had; I can put all my DVDs in one convenient place, quickly scroll thorugh the menu and find the movie I want to play, and put all my DVD cases in a box in the garage.
   
   I can put all my DVDs in one place, but there is nothing quick or convenient about it. First of all, the title line in the menu is ridiculously short. Only the short titles fit. For example, "Blow" is not a problem, but if you want to put in the title "Planes, Trains and Automobiles" you will have to enter it as "P/T and Autos"...that is all you have room for. What is even more aggravating is that some discs automatically load the title. Those discs not only get more room on the title line, but also get a second line below the tile. Heaven forbid the general public get the same number of characters to work with. In addition, the discs that do automatically load the titles load as for example "The Best of Friends" or "The Big Lebowski" so you do not find "The Big Lebowski" in the "Bs" you have to go to the "Ts" and scroll through the endless number of titles that start with "The". What makes it worse is that you can not go in and change the titles on the discs that automatically load. You are stuck with the title that is loaded. Some discs will even load as for example "Directors Cut Basic Instinct" so once again instead of going to the "Bs" I have to find "Basic Instinct" in the "Ds". Is it just me or should someone have thought of that before releasing this?
   
   There is also a feature in the menu that lets you enter a frame from the movie. On the discs that automatically load, often times it will load the disc cover in the frame. Unfortunately, many of the movies just load scrambled nothing-ness. "Rocky IV" loaded as a green blob with a red frame. That might be cool in a modern art museum, but not in my menu screen.
   
   Regarding the disc loading. It is as though an "evil spirit" possesses the machine periodically and decides to hide a DVD somewhere else. One disc will end up being put in an entirely different slot. I then have to manually find the disc and put it back and for some reason tiles just disappear. I can not tell you how many times I have lost information I have loaded. Mechanically speaking, the loader does not work either. I am to the point that if I want to watch disc #100 I have to manually remove disc #99 or it will not load.
   
   Something else that bothers me is all the propaganda out there that this player plays both sides of the disc. Mine certainly does not. When I come to the end of side one, it loads the next disc...sometimes. Otherwise it locks up and I get an error code.
   
   My machine also has a bad optical sensor. Need I say more. It is off to the repair man I go. I wonder if the electronics repair man can fix sledge-hammer damage?
   
   I would like to know who at Sony decided to release this plague upon the world...I would also like the two Saturdays of my life back that I spent programming and loading all the titles...and my money back...but that will not happen because my 1 year warranty ran out. How convenient.

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2 comments about Magnavox DVD Player (MDV45817) (MDV45817).

1. Tried many budget brand DVD players (JVC,Samsung,Zenith,etc.)
   This is the best VALUE for under $50. It is built solidly, has a quiet transport, and all of the necessary features-zoom, ff up 100x, audio and video fine tuning, coax optical out, progressive scan etc. Also plays anything thrown at it: Mp3's , VCD's, DVD+r and-r, photo jpegs, SVCD, SACD etc.
   Buy it! Reason for only 4 out of 5 you might ask? No eject button on the remote.....



2. This DVD player played movies fine until it stopped recognizing any DVD after only 7 months. Magnavox said to buy a DVD lens cleaner ($15) which didn't work, then said that their warranty was only for 90 days so offered a 'discounted' replacement at the exact price I bought it for. For their defective product they wanted me to pay more in support than the original purchase after only 7 months. No thanks, I'll avoid Magnavox in the future.

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5 comments about Panasonic DMR-ES20K DVD Recorder Black.

1. I bought this unit late in 2005. I really put it to heavy use, converting my VHS library, and burning a lot of other stuff to DVD. Before it finally broke down, it began to make audible noises whenever it was powered up, it also began to freeze up often, and had to be rebooted. A couple of days ago, it threw an error, after failing to read a previously burned DVD. It froze up, and had to be rebooted. After restarting, I now get a fuzzy split screen image, instead of my normal satellite TV images. It appears the units primary video outputs have been fried. This unit has some good features like ease of use, and "flexible recording". This allows you to automatically record programs over 2hrs., at the best mode, on a single DVD. If you're looking for a heavy use DVD recording unit, this is not the one!



2. Worked great for the first few months. Then random freezes started popping up. Now it freezes every 5 minutes while recording to DVD-RAM or DVD-RW. I now save every 2 to 3 minutes while transferring video from my camcorder.
   
   Picture quality, even on the component outputs, was poor from day 1. So I record on this, then play on my Toshiba SD9200.
   
   Panasonic has some great products, this is definitely not one of them. In fact, today I visited their website to check for firmware updates for this model, and saw that the webpage is a mess too. I select the DMR-ES20.EXE file for download, and after accepting the Lic agreement, am provided the DMR-E100.EXE for download !!!! That is scraping the bottom of the barrel as far as support goes Panasonic..wake up !!



3. I have had this for over year now. I just love it. I wouldn't know what to do with out it now. I have recorded so many tv shows & movies with it. I have recorded every one of my favorite TV shows, so when I go to the lake where my travel trailer is set up I can catch up on my shows at night or when its raining. It is easy to use & set up. You do have to buy the right kind of dvds (DVD-R) so you can finalze & use on the other dvds.



4. It is my opinion one star is really about two too many but they made me do it. I have two of these Panasonic crazy makers. An ES-20 and an ES-10. I've fought with both of them and missed numerous recordings over the last two and three years respectively. The absolute worst part is when they pretend to be recording and then crash at the end of the program. I bought the ES-20 when the ES-10 died and was sent it off for repair. I guess that equates to shooting myself in both feet. They have both been nothing but trouble. They are extremely tempermental. In fact, the ES-10 just quit recognizing the DVDRAM, grunts, groans displays self check, and refuses to open. Bottom line, I think this week I'm either going Tivo or Cable DVR. Maybe I can use these "dvd recorders" as wheel chocks.



5. We had this product long enough for the warranty to expire, which is about the same time it stopped working, except for the clock. We missed a lot of shows because this thing would randomly malfunction, sometimes working great, sometimes freezing up completely so that the only way to reset it was to unplug and start over. I've had good experience with Panasonic in the past, so this was an unpleasant surprise. Luckily, our credit card covered the purchase so now we can buy another product, from another company of course.
   
   This market is way too competitive for low quality mess like this. Don't waste your money.