Yee you're full of it. The Sony blows the Denon away.

Build Quality, and Video and Audio Quality.

Angle changes at times doesn't work smoothly.

Great built product, the Toshiba units are nice also, infact I liked the picture quality via Progressive units on the 5109 better, but this is Toshibas 4th Generation unit, Sony is on its Second, so its not comparing apples to apples. The
Video quality via composite and S-Video the Sony looked better, but via Progressive scan, there was no touching the Toshiba 5109. Now on Audio quality the Toshiba sucked, it was bright and didn't sound as good as the Sony unit, infact the Sony is known for its good sound on Audio. Overall, if you don't have a Progressive DVD TV or Projector the Sony is the better buy, but if you do have a Progressive TV, FP, LCD unit you owe it to yourself to get a Progressive scan unit. And if you got the money buy the new Toshiba 9200. The 5109 and the new 6200 are like a paper wieght compared to the Sony S-7700 or the Toshiba 9200.

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5109,3109 Toshiba and S-7000

Build Quality, and Video and Audio Quality.

Angle changes at times doesn't work smoothly.

Great built product, the Toshiba units are nice also, infact I liked the picture quality via Progressive units on the 5109 better, but this is Toshibas 4th Generation unit, Sony is on its Second, so its not comparing apples to apples. The
Video quality via composite and S-Video the Sony looked better, but via Progressive scan, there was no touching the Toshiba 5109. Now on Audio quality the Toshiba sucked, it was bright and didn't sound as good as the Sony unit, infact the Sony is known for its good sound on Audio. Overall, if you don't have a Progressive DVD TV or Projector the Sony is the better buy, but if you do have a Progressive TV, FP, LCD unit you owe it to yourself to get a Progressive scan unit. And if you got the money buy the new Toshiba 9200. The 5109 and the new 6200 are like a paper wieght compared to the Sony S-7700 or the Toshiba 9200.

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5109,3109 Toshiba and S-7000

Solid construction, superior audio/video quality, fast chapter access, excellent player for CD's as well

On-screen displays are old-fashioned, "enter" button on remote very difficult to use

Like almost everyone else, I love the superior audio and video quality that this player provides. I have had absolutely no technical problems with the 7700. As for the on-screen menus, they are very functional, but they are far from exciting. If you're expecting something along the lines of the 550 menus, you'll be very disappointed. But as I said they work. For the remote, I don't mind the jog shuttle forward/reverse; it's easy to get used to after a week or so. The problem is with the enter button used to select options on the DVD menus. It's very easy (and frustrating!) to hit the button the wrong way and select something you don't want.

But aside from these 2 very minor details, I love this dvd player and would recommend it to anyone!

Good quality. Excellent features.

None apparent.

After owning the Sony 7700 for several months, it has proven to be an excellent DVD player. Overall quality appears to be excellent, with great picture, sound and features. Overall, I am very pleased with the performance and reliability of the unit. As a reference player, I expected high quality and the Sony delivers in this regard.

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Other DVD players.

A Reference Standard DVD/CD Player:

None

I have the best of both worlds. I have the Sony DVP-S7000 and the Sony DVP-S7700 DVD/CD Players. These two are simply the best DVD players that money can buy. The Picture, audio surround sound is better than at the movies. No runs just crystal clear picture and sound. Of course the DVP-S7700 has a DTS output to hooked up to my new Sony STR-DE935 DD/DTS receiver. The combination is awesome. I think that I have some of the best speaker system around to play and hear all of the surround sounds that these units have to offer.

1- Cerwin-Vega Speakers VS-150 and VS-120
2- Definitive Technology Powerfied Powered Subwoofers
18TL 18" woofer 325 watts of power
15TL 15" woofer 325 watts of power

The sound from the above system is awesome.
I rate the DVP-S7000 the Reference Standard among all DVD players:

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None

Solidly built machine with tremendous audio/video quality especially wen using component video and optical digital audio. No lip synch problems noticed as with the 550D. Great buy at around $800.00 . . . .

How can you tell the difference in sound on a dvd player? If you use the digital out you are using the DAC on your receiver to decode sound therefore the sound shouldn't change much between dvd players since it's just a transport digital bits to the receiver. These reviews are so often just plain dumb.5 stars!!!! like everyone else!!!

Sharp looking unit, 24bit/ 96Khz audio output. Motorized front panel. Quick operational response.

Difficult remote, no zoom, pan, or on-screen menu. No progressive scan output. Not MP3 compatible.

Very disappointing unit. Can't seem to find anything that will do everything I want, no matter the price. VERY difficult remote for choosing different menu options. Am returning unit after only less than a month of use. Not bad if you get it for less than $700, but for the original MSRP of $1200, not even close to worth it. Except for the better audio output, the Phillips, for less than $200, blows it away. Get something cheaper, and wait for somebody to finally come out with something that is worth it.

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Apex AD-600A, Phillips 711, Arcam DV88

Sound is good.

Instructions w/player suck, front panel pointless, crappy screen saver and remote, freezes and skips, picture so-so

Hmm I really hate to do this because I had high hopes for this player. Frist off the instructions that come with this player is a joke, it really isn't clear and keeps telling you to refer to another page. The front panel looks cute but I think we could have saved some money on the development of the useless thing. Screen saver is horrible for the price you pay. Remote is huge and clumsy with the buttons in inconvenient places.
My biggest complaint is however that the danm thing freezes and skips. If I don't press stop and play again when it freezes it jumps to the next chapter. I have had this happen only twice on two different dvd's but then again I've only had the player for two days and only played a few discs on it. Gladiator and Meet the parents both. Being that both dvd's were strait out of the box I doupt that its the discs.
Another complaint is the picture. I was expecting it to be amazing or close to it. Not so. The picture is soft and fuzzy. Not excessively, but enough to piss me off being that it is just a tad better than my VCR.
My father has a $200 JVC dvd player in his bedroom on a old television and that seems clearer.
I based my choice of home theater components on the web site. Guess I got a lemon.
My system:
Sony Wega television KV-36FS12
Sony DVP-S7700 DVD
Sony STR-DE845 a/v reciever
Energy take 5 speakers
all BetterCable connections
**all my equiptment is less than two weeks old if anyone has an idea of whats wrong with my dvd player please email me at peanutking15@hotmail.com**

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JVC