Video performance is awesome, finally a progressive
player without combing or chroma errors

everything else....

I bought this player based on the review at Hometheaterhifi.com. As they stated, the video is close
to perfect. It is superior to the Sony DVP-9000 or Toshiba SD9200. I have a Sony 53HS10 HDTV.

Now for the bad news. I went through 3 players before I got one that didn't lose audio through some DVD-A disks. The remote is horrible, small buttons all jammed together, and no back light. It looks and feels very cheap (it is!).

I don't think this player can be beat for video quality when compared to anything under $3k. If you have an HDTV and want to watch movies at their best, get one of these. The DVD-A capability sweetens the deal even more, best value on the market IMHO.

Similar Products Used:

Toshiba SD9100,SD9200, Sony DVP-9000, Pioneer DV-37

DVD-Audio,Progressive Scanning

nasty looking remote!Can't play CD-R/CD-RW

Never thought that I would buy a JVC product but this one is good.Progressive scanning is excellent if the flags are good but when it's not it's so-so.On newer DVD's like Gladiator,MI-2 etc. this player really shines,I never had a problem with this player that I bought unlike some of the stuff I read here.
The Video mode is soft looking,it looks better switched to their 525i (why 525i? dunno)which is only accesible in the back of the unit.Zooming on this unit is quite good also,IMHO better than some expensive players so all in all it's a good player not to mention DVD-Audio playback!

Very good picture. OK Sound. Extremely flexible in the settings area.

Worst remote in the world. Gets a little warm.

I had purchased the 5 disk changer Pioneer Progressive scan player from Costco a couple of months ago. A few weeks ago, I noticed the JVC show up and had heard much better things about it. Costco allowed me to trade in the Pioneer for the JVC. The price above is not a type-O. I only paid $225 for the player.

So far, so good. Picture is much clearer than the Pioneer. Color saturation and sound are about the same. I use a RS 1994 remote...so I can pretty much through the JVC remote away...which is nice. Horrible piece of design that remote is.

Similar Products Used:

Pioneer Progressive scan.

Great Picture, good sound, 5.1 outputs

remote is lousy

This unit is a real performer. Great picture on my
Panasonic 51" TV. The 5.1 audio outputs work great with
my JVC1028 receiver. That's the good stuff. Here's the
downside. Sometimes the progressive scan appears to kick
in and out. This is probably due to the disk. Most disks
play fine. The interconnect between the JVC components is
a bit flakey. I set the receiver to use dvd-multi mode
(thats for the 5.1 outputs) and it jumps into the dvd-digital mode (thats for the optical link) when it goes
into the menu. I have to put the receiver back into
dvd-multi mode (through the remote). It doesn't jump
during a movie so it is just a bit on an inconvenience.
After 9 months, the unit started to overheat and freeze
up on me. I'm glad I bought a service contract. It is in
the shop now and I hope to get it back this week (?). Of the
4 JVC dvd players I have purchased, 3 of them are now
boat anchors and the latest one is in the shop. I've learned
my lesson. I'll NEVER buy another JVC product! If you get
this unit, beware that the technology is excellent but
the construction and reliability is extremely poor.

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JVC510 JVC511

DVD-Audio, features galore, great picture, great audio, good evidence of engineering, comprehensive display, nice look, excellent customer service, easy setup graphics. 24/193 DAC, 10bit 54mhz video DAC

for the price could be sturdier, remote, confusing manual,no CDR/CDRW/mp3

Looks/build/features: Looks expensive until realise front panel is plastic. Great display showing DVD-Audio decoding, # of surround channels reading, sampling frequency, presence of DVD bonuses, etc. Has rubber seal around DVD door opening to limit dust/light. Has display off to reduce noise during audio playback. Has gold plated connectors. Has copper screws inside. Has full chassis so JVC can implement separate circuit boards for audio, video, power, digital...spaced apart from each other to minimize noise. Unique digital processing of prog scan. 24/192 DAC. Has zoom, digest, strobe, video tweaking, DD/DTS decoder, and bass management.

Video: Compared with my excellent Toshiba 3109 and my Panasonic RP91---Superb. Clear, clean pictures. 10 bit 54mhz processing. Great detail, color satuation, black levels. Moving cameral pans across confusing geometric patterns does not upset the JVC; rock stable. No more shaky geometric lines!. Progressive scan is film-like with great detail, sharpness, color satuation. Flesh looks smooth and very life like. JVC makes excellent progressive scans. Can adjust to 4:3 from HD progressive scan 16:9 source.

Audio: Compared with my Theta Digital Basic CD transport running through Audio Alchemy DTI2 via WireWorld Silver Coax. The JVC using JPS Superconductors analog out to the Sony 9KES preamp. NAD 208THX amp connected to Martin Logans SL3 with WireWorld Polaris speaker wires and Nordost Solar Winds interconnect. The good news is that the JVC matched pretty evenly with the Theta Transport! Noted were the excellent highs, uncompressed, good inner detail, great air, no loss of transperncy, good rythm, and a surprisingly rock solid bass. Throw in DVD Audio at higher sampling rates and instruments take on their own space...eerie. Sound and Vision magazine concurs with my listening impressions. They measure 16bit excess noise to be .05db from theoretical perfections. With 24bit signals, the excess noise (too much noise will kill any resolution gains by higher sampling freq) was at theoretical limits by todays standards at 19 bits! Other DVDAudio players cannot produce 19bits, some cannot even produce 16 bits--less than a CD! No doubt the attention to details by JVC; separate spaced induced circuit boards, 1 bit linear DAC, noise reduction design details, display off mode, low jitter contributed to these figures. Also noted was the ruler flat freq of the DAC, even the 197kHZ range! Imagine plugging in a wide band dejitter box...this is audiophile standards for a stand alone CD transport.

Conclusion: For $899 msrp it should have had a more solid cover plate to reduce vibrations. It should also have an alumium front panel to reduce vibrations. Also I would like to see some copper shielding on the inside. DVD players are notorious for having excess noise and high jitter factors. The JVC buckss this trend and offers true CD transport like performance. It also has good user control flexibility in audio management and video management. I wished that video setting can be saved per DVD disks like in other DVD players. I would also like to have seen 2:3 pull down and black level control. This is just nit picking as I am hard pressed to find any faults. At the price I paid it was a steal since JVC also includes a DVD movie and two DVD Audio disks. For piece of mind, I paid the $39 for 4-year extended warranty.

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panasonic rp91

more features then you can shake a stick at, a good progressive scan at it's price point, with all decoders to boot!

typical lackluster remote. menus and onscreen displays are graphic heavy, and obtrusive. Skips on CDs quite easily.

After deciding against buy this around Christmas 2000, I found one on eBay for $200, after almost bidding MUCH more on it! Barely used with ALL accessories..I love IT!!

This player is built cheaply in China, but that belies it's looks, which to me are pretty nice,I tire quite easily with black....when there are NO rosewood panels to go with it! :~)

It matches my Japanese import Laserdisc player! I had originally planned to keep upgrading every year, but after the Sony (even with old firmware!) I thought I had found one I could live with, but this JVC packs such an impressive array of features..it's too hard to ignore! I haven't had any problems discussed in this site, but have had reverse scan lockups, and CD skip and hang (actually only one so far ... knock on wood. Everything, including the remote, works fine.

I also feel the remote is not the worst ever made...COME ON NOW! Most folks complain about LCD touchscreens costing hundreds!! I have been used to the 2109 Toshiba remote, after having started with the HUGE 2006 remote! Sony's 530 remote is one of my favs also, big rubber buttons, that are really easy to find in the dark...I guess people aren't really trying to do this.

I hope to try the progressive scan, which has faults, but at less then $1000, it outperforms just about all cheap progressos. The outputs are shared with the audio decoders, but two extra L/R jacks are available. The interlace video is done in one chip that also does the progressive scan! No benefits have been found with this method, but it is unique.

Also the 525, versus 480P/i is a bit confusing, even for me!
I think JVC is trying to hoodwink consumers. My resume feature is just not working...ANY BODY figure this one out!?
Only feature I seem to be having trouble with, my Sony allows one press of stop to retain time/title/chapter settings, the Panasonic allows 5 bookmarks, and Toshiba does the same as the Sony.

Can't much beat $200 for this player!!

Bill

Similar Products Used:

Sony DVP-S530D, Panasonic A310, Toshiba SD-2006, SD-2109

Price (for a progressive player).

Very bad defects (manufacturing problem or possibly design). Overheats very quickly and then won't accept signals from remote.

Do not buy this DVD player. About 2 months after bein purchased, it started not receiving signals from the remote. The problem is definitely not the remote itself, but the part of the player that receives the remote signal. Especially after a few minutes of use, something apparently overheats and the player no longer accepts signals from the remote.

Even though one can operate the player with the buttons on the front of the machine itself, the buttons are limited to play, pause, skip forward and skip back. There are no selection buttons, menu buttons or any of the other buttons found on the remote. BAD design!!! (If the front of the machine had a full complement of buttons, I would still be disatisfied with this model, but might have given it two stars instead of one. At least then I would have been access the player's functions from the face of the machine.)

Furthermore, the local JVC authorized service centers can NOT fix this problem, or any other problem with this DVD player. Even the regional JVC factory service centers apparently can NOT fix this or any other problem with this player. The player must be sent to JVC's manufacturing facility in Cypress, CA (southern CA), where there is "sophisticated testing equipment." (JVC sent out a repair bulletin to its "authorized" repair centers regarding this in December 2000, stating that the player should not be worked on but sent to Cypress, so JVC has been well aware of this difficulty in repairing this model for over 9 months. Did JVC notify consumers of this significant issue after it became aware of it?)

If you bought the player in California, this would appear to be a violation of Civil Code Section 1793.2(1)(A) and 1793.2(3) requiring local repair facilities to be supported by the manufacturer sufficiently to be able to repair its consumer goods under warranty.

Also, labor warranty expires after 90 days. JVC does not have the confidence in this product to even give it a full one year warranty on labor, which is what will really cost you.

I thought this player was a good deal at the time of purchase, but now it appears to be a lemon which can not be conveniently repaired, if it can be repaired at all.

Buyer Beware!! Worked fine for the first 5 weeks. Then it was unable to read the disks. Since it was past the 30 day return policy for best buy, I had to take it to a JVC service center across town. They had it for three weeks before they told me they were unable to fix it. JVC told me to send it to them to inspect - which will take another 4 to 6 weeks. By the time I get it back it will have been broken longer than it worked. JVC says there is nothing they can do about that. The customer service from JVC has made me decide I will never buy one of their products again.

Good menus

Extremely bad playback in progressive mode.

To those interested in purchasing a progressive scan DVD player, I would recommend avoiding the JVC XV-D723. I have had nothing but problems with it when trying to playback DVD movies in progressive mode on my Toshiba 56H80 HDTV. The picture, inexplicably, cuts out at various times and no amount of tweaking the menu settings will solve the problem. No such problem exists when switching the unit back to 525i mode however. This player is a lemon in my opinion and to be avoided. JVC's customer support is also not up to par with the rest of the industry.

Good menus

Extremely bad playback in progressive mode.

To those interested in purchasing a progressive scan DVD player, I would recommend avoiding the JVC XV-D723. I have had nothing but problems with it when trying to playback DVD movies in progressive mode on my Toshiba 56H80 HDTV. The picture, inexplicably, cuts out at various times and no amount of tweaking the menu settings will solve the problem. No such problem exists when switching the unit back to 525i mode however. This player is a lemon in my opinion and to be avoided. JVC's customer support is also not up to par with the rest of the industry.