Sony DVPCX995V 400-Disc DVD Mega Changer/Player
selectable 480p/720p/1080i output via HDMI digital interface (separate adapter available for TVs with DVI input) * Disc Explorer on-screen display * HDMI version 1.1 * input for optional PC keyboard * 2 audio/video outputs (2 composite, 2 S-video, 1 480i/480p component video, 1 HDMI) * remote control (multibrand for TVs) *
Conveniently store your entire DVD library (or all your favorite CDs and Super Audio CDs) in the Sony DVPCX995V 400-disc, progressive scan Mega Changer--the perfect tool for organizing your media library as well as providing extraodinary high definition sound and video to your home theater. It up-scales video to high-definition (1080i/720p) resolution and transmits high quality audio through a High-Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI). It also features a redesigned Disc Explorer on-screen graphic interface, providing intuitive and easy access to the expansive disc library. With the ability to conveniently house and sort through 400 media discs, this cool player can eliminate the need for racks and racks of CD and DVD storage.  It features Sony's Precision Cinema Progressive circuitry, Dolby Digital and DTS 5.1 channel outputs, and also offers coaxial and optical digital outputs. It's compatible with DVD-RW/-R/+RW/+R, MP3, JPEG, CD-RW/-R, VCD and SVCD formats--so it can play just about any disc you have from movies and video to music. Other convenience features include multi-disc resume (40 discs), custom parental controls (on all 400 discs), playback memory (400 discs), background graphics that display on your TV while music plays, and a multi-brand remote control.
Tech Talk
HDMI (High-Definition Multimedia Interface).
This is a lossless, uncompressed, all-digital audio/video interface to link any audio/video source (such as a set-top box, DVD player, or AV receiver) with your TV or monitor.
Sony's Precision Cinema Progressive. This feature detects image changes at the pixel level versus other types that detect image changes at the scan line level. Separate algorithms are used to process the moving and still parts of an image to achieve sharper backgrounds and moving objects that are free from motion artifacts.
SACD (Super Audio CD). Super Audio CD is a high-quality audio disc standard in which music is recorded in the DSD (Direct Stream Digital) format (where conventional CDs are recorded in the PCM format). Using a sampling frequency 64 times higher than PCM and with 1-bit quantization, the DSD format provides both a wide frequency range and a wide dynamic range across the audible frequency range, providing music reproduction that's extremely faithful to the original source.
| Sony's 3:2 Reverse Pulldown |
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DVD mastering introduces a common distortion when adjusting 24 frames-per-second movies to 30 fps video; 3:2 reverse pulldown digitally corrects this distortion, removing the redundant information to display a film-frame-accurate picture. Composite- and S-video outputs bring compatibility with nearly any television. |
Film and video use different numbers of frames
Conversion from 24 frames to 60 frames can cause motion blur, horizontal lines that flicker on and off, or an unnatural shimmer. |
3-2 pulldown
The traditional method for converting film images to video for television: Take one film frame and split it into three video frames. Then take another film frame and split it into two video frames. The video frames are classified as odd or even.
DVD players and other electronics then take the 60-frames-per-second video, and send it to a TV for viewing. |
3-2 reverse conversion
The process of converting 3-2 video back to movie-quality images at 24 frames per second. This allows the DVD player to combine the correct film frames, reproducing the film's original picture quality and texture. |
| Sony's Precision Cinema Progressive technology |
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Precision Cinema Progressive technology uses a 12-bit video DAC (digital-to-analog converter) with high-bandwidth, 108 MHz processing to detect image changes at the pixel level, rather than at the level of whole scan lines. That makes this player's picture more faithful to the source--whether film or video--because it uses separate, optimized algorithms to handle different pixel behaviors. Separate algorithms are also used to process the moving and still parts of an image, resulting in sharp backgrounds with moving objects that are free from motion artifacts. | 
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What's in the Box
DVPCX995V DVD player, remote control, batteries, AV cord, printed instructions
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Sony DVPCX995V 400-Disc DVD Mega Changer/Player Reviews
I plugged in a keyboard and it helped getting titles in for a little while. Few of my disks even autoload the title. The things I don't like are that its a real time consuming hassle entering DVD information. Then the keyboard connection quit working and I was back to using the remote. This device seems to work pretty well. It retrospect I would spend a little more and get a friendlier product.
Sony Support would do nothing for me, except for "Sorry" and "you can pay for a repair. What a nightmare. I bought this to keep my DVDs from gettting scratched - Ironically it ruined a good chunk of my collection. I would advise you consider something else. I've had mine for a couple of years. Loved it until recently I realized it scratched over 40 of my DVDs making them unplayable.
*All Titles Dissappear - Yes thats right, after spending hours entering all your DVD titles into the system, you will lose all that data. This will happen and you will have to replace the product. This product is a fine product, a dream come true, until one of two things happen:. *Eventually Stops Reading All DVDs - Yes this is the killer, the death rattle. So far I've owned two of these, (and two is enough for me) each time, months out of the year warranty, they simply stopped reading DVDs.
Bottom Line - Holds a ton of DVDs and displays titles which is wonderful. Not a question of if, only when. However you have to basically pay $300 / yr to operate this thing because you will have to replace it just about every year. Fortunately, if you are willing to give up a Saturday every couple of months, thats not too terrible. This will happen, again not a matter of if, only when.
If you're looking for a 400 disk dvd player this is the ticket. This is my 2nd one and I love'm. once you get more than 100 disk the on screen is way to slow. Oh yeah, the remote control have 3 different operating channels, this means you can have 3 of these with out the remotes conflicting. I keep written record and use that to search for movies. the only down side (i don't really think so)is the on screen search.
(Sony DVPCX995V 400-Disc DVD Mega Changer/Player). players can be controlled by a single (included) remote. Organize and play a large DVD collection. This four hundred DVD carousel player, though not perfect, is a great way to. Up to three of these massive.
show then move it to a single DVD player. I'm on my third and last Sony disc explorer. I only wish I could get something like this for Blu-ray. output these units will up-convert standard DVDs to HDTV and will do. Through the HDMI. progressive scan.
Over all I am very pleased with my Sony carousel players. for ease of access and not searching some sort of filing system to find a.
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