Kenwood is very strong in ripping off the consumer with product hype.

Just about every feature.

Pretty much a piece of Junk. I'm suprised that Kenwood still sells this crap. I find it difficult to believe that the system has the ability to read CD Tag information but not DVD's. Kenwood is trying to force the consumer to buy more hardware just to read the DVD Tags. Every time you turn the system on it starts playing what ever CD it was playing last. Hey Kenwood I didn't hit the play button yet. Some CD's block functions so even STOP will not work until the CD lets you. Now I have to watch 5 minutes of Disney before it will take a stop command. If it autoplayed in a single disk player OK but not a 400 disk. The NetNamer software that allows you to name CD's and DVD's has so many bugs its almost unuseable. I've had Netnamer for a long time and still not one bug fix has come out of kenwood. I sent 15 (FIFTEEN) emails to tech support and NEVER got anything but an automatic reply saying they got the message. There is NO phone number for support on Kenwoods WEB site. I will NEVER buy Kenwood equipment again. Good luck in bankruptcy Kenwood.

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Single disk DVD's only.

400 discs

Long layer change, Really bad support from Kenwood, noisy

A great idea, but needs lots of improvments from Kenwood. Recently, when on random play, it only plays every other cd. Long layer changes when watching DVD's, freezes the action for a couple of seconds. The NetNamer software is terrible, and no support or upgrades for Kenwood. I will sell this unit, and try to find something that works!

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Other changers from Pioneer, Sony

Build quality, formats played, sound and video quality.

1. Over 30 seconds to swap from one CD to the next. 2. Reads entire carousel evertime you power on (all other brands only do it after you open and close the door). Powering off unit after opening door doesn't close the door either. 3. Netnamer DV software is very poor. 4. Twice now when navigating through the on screen "library" the whole unit will lock up. Have to fully power off and turn back on, and ALL the names are gone, have to run Netnamer all over again and it needs to read every CD. 5. A CD you just played 5 minutes ago will be unreadable this time. It goes through the disc flip several times (also annoying if you know you put the cd in the right way, now its backwards) then moves on. Power off the unit, turn it back on, plays the CD on the first try. 6. Halfway through the movie you get a 3 second picture freeze as it changes layers, no other DVD players do this.

This is my second review. Basically the quality of the unit (sound/video/build) is great but I have come across a ton of various bugs. Hopefully kenwood will at some point offer a firmware update to fix some of these.

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This thing sucks ! After 2 days of tring to get the netnamer software to work I called there customer service just to find out it doesn't work with dvd's and that if I want to label my dvd's I have to get the Entre Entertaiment Hub if I want to be able to load all my dvd's and be able to locate them.

Good quality audio from CDs Plays the advertised formats well. Loading is a little tricky but that's typically a one-time task Fairly quiet operation The fact that there is a PC connection is good but everything about the software is horrible (see items below)

Way too complicated! - Difficult to find individual CDs and play them... (this is a crippling weakness!! My wife just wants a simple way to play the CDs she is interested in playing. She doesn't want to read a 70 page manual every time she simply wants to find what's in the jukebox and play it. She can't even use the new system.... and - even though she's not tech savvy - my wife is an average consumer who truly enjoys music. I'll probably have to sell my DV-5050M and place all the CDs back in their original packaging which I see as a huge wasted effort!) The netnamer software should allow you to print the locations of each CD...turning the dial to manually select a CD for immediate play wouldn't be so bad if you already knew where you were going. As it works today you turn the dial wait for the tiny display to scroll enough information to know which CD is loaded at which position. This is incredibly slow and laborious....people can read fast if the software would just allow you to print out the listing..then you could dial CD number 216 and hit play. The netnamer software is truly some of the worst software ever written. About the only good thing I can say is that it does conn

I own a Kenwood Sovereign DV-5050M. I purchased because of the jukebox (400 CDs) capability and the support for DVD and mp3 formats. It sounds fine and mechanically there's no problem but the interfaces for the netnamer software and for the 5050m when it's used in standalone mode are both so bad that I'll probably sell the device and use MP3 servers (I'll probably just use a dedicated standalone PC until someone comes out with a decent software interface and remote control for a jukebox type device.)

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Track titles Netnamer software Quiet/Good Build Tons of Features

Slow initialization Netnamer is primitive, needs some work

I just got this unit today, so this is a very initial review. The unit is built very well. The functionality is also great. The netnamer DV is a bit primitive, but great nonetheless. Being able to control, name, etc from the computer is very convenient. Downloading the titles from CDDB is priceless too. One thing, I figured if I did the update on the unit (didn''t want to have the laptop connected the whole time) then just downloaded the titles after I''d be OK, but there is no way to download all titles without having it scan the discs again (you can do one at a time, but not all) so when you do the initial scan, do it through the software! I had to have it rescan the whole rack a second time. Anyway, another great feature is having it display the track titles as it plays, something my old Pioneer didn''t do (title and artist only). Also a lot quieter than my Pioneer was. Basically, great features, just need to spend some time learning the remote and features. The only thing I don''t like is it takes a lot longer than any other player I''ve had to initialize the CD after it loads, like 7-10 seconds.

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Progressive scan in a jukebox.

Slooooooowwwww Layer Change 3-6 seconds! GUI Clunky.

I bought this unit sight unseen because I was updating my TV to HDTV and my old Pioneer 300 disk player did not have progressive scan output. I bought the Kenwood before I got the HDTV set, so I can not comment on the picture quality in progressive scan mode. However, I can say that the audio produced by the player is really good.

My biggest problems with the unit dealt with the layer change. 3-6 seconds during a crucial point in a movie is unacceptable! The GUI for disk managament is clunky and slow. This player does not do DVD-Text recognition and entering the titles without a computer hookup is horrible. Too forever to enter titles for 150 disks. Since the machine will handle 400 itself and manage a total of 1200 disks, it is not recommended to enter the titles from scratch with the remote control.

I ended up returning this unit to Crutchfield which had a fantastic return policy and I bought a Sony DVSN700P to get me by until someone else comes out with a jukebox dvd player.

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