Summary: I have been looking for a replacement for my aging Sony DVP-S530D that has had an amazing picture for six years, but it has been freezing up on me with alot of movies as of late. Also getting the C:13:00 dirty disc message comes up. But I wash all the DVDs I rent first. I then bought a Denon DVD-900, that player was no ware close to as good as my old player in terms of picture qaulity, so I returned it. I looked at alot of other players and was not happy with what I saw. I finaly turned back to Sony and bought the DVP-NC665P five disk DVD player. We have been wanting a multi disk player for many years. Well I was impressed from the moment I started setting it up with the on screen menu. The instruction book matched the set up menu set by step! It has many great video setting to help tweak video performance. I used the Avia DVD to calibrate my TV to the new DVD player, and after tweaking the TV settings I was able to further better the contrast, hue, color using the players settings to come closer to perfection. I do not use any of the digital video enhancers as that is a form of scan modulation. I did however use the Block Noise Reduction set at it's highest setting. I don't know if it works or not but it did not effect the picture quality. I do not use the Progressive scan mode as my Pioneer Elite Pro-520HD has a far better line doubler than most refrence DVD players. Now that I was set up I popped in three DVDs each picked for a particular video quality I wanted to test. The first was Austen Powers third movie, Fith Eliment (supper Bit), Blade Two. Austen powers DVDs always have a veriety of brite colors in this case I was looking for the players ability to display reds and oranges without artifects, or scan lines in those colors. Next I watched Blade 2 because this disc has been scartched up and repaired and would not play sertain chapters in my old player. Also it is a very dark movie and wanted to look at the players ability to show shadow detail in dark passages. Finaly Fith Eliment, just because it's my favorite out of all of my DVDs. Well this player surpassed all of my expectations! It has a wonderful picture! Detail, Deep Colors, deep blacks, and wonerful depth to the picture. It is equal if not just a hair better than my old Sony player, probably do to the video enhancement built into the player. The only down side if I had to be picky is that there is a slight graininess in some dark movies, but it might be the movie not the player. Also this new player will not play damaged DVDs as well as the Denon DVD-900. On to the audio side of this player. I use the digital coax out to my Denon AVR-3300 receiver so I do not use the players DACs as the Denon has much better DACs that sound warm and smooth. Now the exchange play works great with any type of dics I use. The only other thing I dont like about this player is when I tell it to shuffle all CDs on random play it does not switch to a differnt CD every time a song ends. But thats ok, at least I dont have to reload when one CD is finished playing. I guess I could also program it to do what I want but that takes far to long. Build quality is good to excellant. At $169 with tax this players video performance blows is equal to players costing four times it's price tag. And it's a five disk DVD player, what more can you ask for!
Highly recommended!
My system:
Definitive Technology Speakers 12 gauge bi-wired:
BP2002L (front & back)
C/L/R2002 coupled with Pro-Sub 200TL (full range center)
Power Field 15TL (LFE Sub only)
Denon AVR-3300 (receiver)
Sony DVP-VC665P (DVD)
Pioneer Elite Pro-520HD (53"widescreen)
Comcast HDTV cable box
Philips Pronto (remote)
Monster cable caox, tos-link
Tara Labs 203V Trio (component video cable)
Strengths: Video Performance! Multi Disc player.
Weaknesses: None at this price point!
Similar Products Used: Sony DVP-S530, PlayStation 2, Sony DVP-7700, Denon DVD-900, Denon DVD-2200, Pioneer 533, ect, ect.
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Summary: This is a review of DVP NC665. I'm posting here b/c i couldn't find correct listing. Anyways, DO NOT BUY this crap. Picture quality is actually WORSE than my non progressive, 3 year old Toshiba dvd player. I was hoping this pregressive $hit was going to improve on my old Toshiba but nooooooo. This is a definite step DOWN! FUuuK! Now i have to go thru the hassle of returning this cr@p. I ain't no n00b, I did my best to tweak the picture but nope. It ain't gonna work out.
COme to think of it, it sort of makes sense why this new "pregressive scan" unit has worse picture than my old Toshiba. My old toshiba costed me $300. This new one cost me 140. They cut $160 off the product and they gotta skimp somewhere! I guess after i return this one i'll bite the bullet and buy Denon DVP 910. Ironically new denon dvp will probably set me back about $300 just like my old toshiba.
Once again, the old saying comes true. YOU GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR! Coveat Emptor.
Strengths: 5 DVD/CD carosel, Optical out. Cheap.
Weaknesses: Sh!tty picture, Dry sound, Flimsy construction. Did i mention Sh!tty picture? In case i haven't... Sh!tty picture!!!!!
Similar Products Used: Old toshiba DVP.
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Summary: SO i was looking around for a multi-disc dvd player to start my hometheater in my bedroom(Im only 18 give me a break). Chose this Sony because it was a multi-disc, optical out, and MP3 playback. If all you are looking for a dvd player thats inexpensive, selectable-progressive scan, multi-disc, and easy to use, this is a very good buy. If you're looking for HDCD SACD or DVD-Audio, don't complain that this unit doesn't have it.. because you should have bought one that does if thats what you were looking for.
Strengths: It has selectable-progressive scan so if I ever get a HDTV when I'm older, I'll have that. variety of outputs for audio and video. simple easy to understand design. On-screen menu displays for changing settings. Audio and video enhancements and my favorite is the Night mode which just makes audio louders and you can hear the slightest pindrop (not to be corny but you can) even using the sound from your tv, its a cool touch. The picture is good through my Sharp 27inch flatscreen (component video cables used) and audio through my onkyo receiver and klipsch towers sounds great.
Weaknesses: none for a $200 dvd player. and despite what other reviewers say, there is a track repeat button for music, that orange light from hell is not the end of the world, and the audio is not flat, do a little adjusting on your receiver, and if you're using a tv, I don't know what kind of miracle your expecting for sound quality.
Similar Products Used: Pioneer, Samsung
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Summary: Why did an audiophile buy this $199 dvd player? Two reasons, gave away a an old sony 7000 and needed a quick replacement awesome player by the way) and I'm waiting for the formats to settle down(DVD-Audio, HD DVD, SACD etc.) to settle down before buying a quality muti-channel player.
So since my remote was already programmed for a sony dvd player I picked up this unit. I was going to buy a single disc player but this was on sale for the same price and since its not a reference player anyway I thought the carousel would be fun to use when listening to music. As for the player, what more can you ask for or expect for 200 dollars. It plays dvds, the picture is fine and yes, while the audio is not all that spectacular in analog mode, it really is a non-issue for multi-channel audio since when using a digital cable to connect it to a mulit-channel reciever, you're using the DAC's in the reciever anyway. People blaming the unit for bad dolby digital should look a bit closer at the quality of their receiver's DAC's & amplifiers. Buy a decent coaxial cable (I use a Straightwire Silver Link II) and you'll be fine. My final thoughts...rarely can you achieve AV nirvana for $200, so don't expect it.
This player is great for the money.
P.S. I bought a 3 year service plan for it because most likely the plastic gears in the carousel won't last forever. Being able to take it back if it breaks for $25 dollars more seemed a decent idea.
Strengths: Suprising number of outputs, you could use this for a multiroom system.
Nice display both on the face plate and the OSD, easy to setup and navigate.
Nice progressive picture for the price.
Weaknesses: Again, it's $200.
At this price they're minor.
Similar Products Used: Sony DVP-S7000, Pioneer Elite DV45A, Pioneer Elite DVC36, Arcam Diva DV88.
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Summary: This DVD player plays just about any format. I purchased this player, because Iam building a home theater slowly and don't want many components and wires. The player handles discs formats such as: DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD-RAM, CD-R, CD-RW, CD with MP3s and a video CD with the MPEG 3 format. This surely removes all the unnecessary clutter of components on the rack. It also has all the necessary audio video components I need, and what more can I ask for? This is a progressive scan player(P). Currently, I have hooked up this player to an RCA mini stereo system for cheap sound. That RCA will go away and be replaced with a Yamaha receiver and Monitor Audio or B&W speakers.
Strengths: Great bright lights (orange and green)on front panel, I can clearly see them from a distance. It's great with the lights are out, so I know what disc is playing. Cleaver job Sony! Fast switching of discs.
Weaknesses: Cannot repeat a favorite song continously, and there isn't a button on the front panel or remote.
Similar Products Used: Sony KV-27V65 with PIP TV
Sony KV-20FV12 TV
Sony SLV-798HF VCR HI-FI
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