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This is perhaps the best 5 disc DVD/CD player available today. The Picture and sound are fanastic. Component out to Sony XBR is tops!! And AL from Dallas, PLease use this site to review your equipment, who cares about the service you received from an on-line outlet!!

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I was disappointed with this unit. It is ok as a DVD, not a good CD player as features go.
For: The audio was very good and the features for DVD were adequate. I did not any of the audio synk problems in this unit.

Against: The CD Text was quite bad. When you play a disk with text this player does not display any text until you toggle through the time/track options. Then it only displays the disk title, no track info! I tried Sony, TDK, and Verbatim CD-R's and none work. When controlling another changer all on screen displays are disabled and not available. Disks in this unit cannot be looked at and the disk explorer is not available. Video on this unit was poor, the Sony 330 DVD had a better picture (could be a defective unit?). You cannot title disks on a connected changer from this unit either. This unit will be going back soon.

Versatility, 5 CD's at once. Good remote.

Lip Sync issues at times. No Zoom. Occasional pauses

Overall, I am fairly satisfied with the player. Movies are generally excellent using the player. I'd say one out of three has at a portion of the movie where the sound and the video are not in sync. It lasts anywhere from a few minutes to half the movie. It's annoying, but if it's a really good film, you sort of forget it.

I hate not having a zoom feature for DVD's that are widescreen only. Guess I need to get a big screen TV soon.

Finally, at times there are momentary pauses in between scenes. It's only happened in about 3 DVDs, and it may be the DVD or it may be the player.

Good picture, Good sound from both DVD and CD

I've had no luck playing CD-Rs yet.

Tried two other sony's that had bad lip sync problems!!! Poor of sony to let those hit the public. I returned them both and Got my sony DVP C650D. I am very pleased with this sony. NO LIP SYNC. I will try the CD-Rs with dark ink as recomended. I paid 499.00 at COSTCO. I really try to stick to COSTCO because you get NO HASSLE on any returns. OVERALL: very good value and performance.

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sony dvp330, sony dvp530

Picture Quality, Great Audio, Passes PLUNGE Test

Jog Shuttle on Remote, not that big of a deal.

This is an excellent DVD player. Many options and is very easy to navigate. DVD/DTS picture quality is remarkably good
and also plays CD's much better than I thought on a 5-disk
changer. This machine is quiet and does not have the disk noise that some have reported and have not seen the lip-synch problems either.

The picture quality is very sharp and blacks are VERY black.
Overall, this DVD player would be a great addition in most home theater setups.

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My Question to Rick; have you also noticed that you cannot utilize the test tone in the optical mode? (I too have an Onkyo 777). Also can't pass 96khz signal in optical, it is down-converted to 48khz. Do you utilize both analog and video connections on this unit. Besides these 'quirks'(and the fact that when I view DVDs that I can hear the disk spin up from 10 ft away), the quality of the picture and the DVD audio soundtrack is quite remarkable. I also have audio CDs (not CD-Rs) that cause a 'no disk' reading. Have you experienced any of this?

5 disk capacity, play exchange, great remote that adds control of the TV and tuner without having to move switches

A little on the mechanically noisy side when switching disks around and spinning up to speed, but no problems while watching or listening to the disks

Hey, being able to watch over 10 hours of movies without getting off your butt is kind of cool. Play exchange is an absolute necesity for a multi disk player..enabling you to switch disks out while one is playing without interuption. also has a drop down control panel on the unit in case you lose the remote...it doesn't become totally unusable. so far I have enjoyed this unit very much and have no real complaints. The remote is also a nice bonus...I know a lot of friends with hundreds (OK 3or4) remotes, and if you are using the dvd menu and all of a sudden something loud comes up and you have to turn it down you have to scamble for that other remtote...this has preprogramed the essential controls for a large number of TV brands (like channel, volume, power, and input select) it also allows you to set it up to control the volume on your sterio system so you have the really important functions of your TV and the volume of your receiver all on the same control for your DVD player. So all I have to do is hit the power button on the receiver as I come into the room, grab this remote, use it to turn on the TV, switch the input to video, turn on the DVD player and start working with DVDs. And even after that I have all the volumes on the same remote.

Super picture clarity, letterboxing is phenomonal.

An almost overwhelming feature set; hardware is kind of noisy.

The picure quality via S-Video is superb (not able to try component video on our system). The crispness and fullness of the images blows composite video away.

Music CDs sound wonderful as well--rich and deep in feeling.

I think the internals could be a bit quieter, especially when a DVD movie is playing (If you keep your equipment in a cabinet with a door, however, you probably won't hear anything).

So far, a very good Sony product that "plays nice" with their other products. Excellent jog dial on the remote.

Excellent picture and easy to use. Got for a reasonably good price on the net at $440. If a DVD is stopped, the player will pick up where the movie left off, even if the player has been turned off in the interim.

I didn't realize until I bought this player that it couldn't play CD-Rs. I've got a couple good Grateful Dead shows on CD-R and I'm disappointed that I won't be able to play them on this system.

Excellent player except for the CD-R issue.

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Nifty DVD Player. Video is nice and crisp, audio (for DVDs) is VERY clean.

Cost (d*mn near $700 from Best Buy). As a CD player, I have mixed emotions. Track Memo would be nice, and the Disc Memo, while very nifty, a) isn't displayed automatically and b) can't be downloaded into the Remote Commander that came with my STR-DB930. Pain in the rump. Oh, well...as soon as Sony comes out with a 300-disc changer with Track Memo, I'll be picking it up (CX350 lacks this NECESSARY feature. CX270 seems to be the only jukebox that has it, but it's both EXTREMELY expensive and not enough storage for me).

All in all, I'll hold on to it as far as DVD is concerned, but it's CD features are (for the money) severely lacking.

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