Sony DVPNC665P/B 5-Disc Progressive Scan DVD Changer, Black
Sony's DVP-NC665P/B DVD Player offers you the chance to relive the excitement of the movies in your very own living room. Enjoy the benefits! This 5-Disc DVD/CD Changer brings home with features like a 480P Output Type, Precision Cinema Progressive Technology, a Precision Drive 2 System with Dynamic Tilt Compensation, DVD-RW/-R (VR and Video Mode) DVD+RW/+R, and MP3/CD-R/CD-RW Playback, 12 Bit Video DAC with 108Mhz Processing with NSV, and Dolby Digital and dts Decoding Compatibility. Additional features include Virtual Surround - 4 Surround Modes, Block Noise Reduction, a Digital Video Enhancer, Digital Video EQ, Custom Picture Mode, Advanced SmoothScan and SmoothSlow modes, and Instant Replay and Instant Search. Indulge in exceptional digital entertainment - the DVP-NC665P/B.
Sony's five-disc, progressive-scan DVP-NC665P/B DVD player gives you all the convenience of a carousel changer--continuous playback, play exchange, dual-format DVD/CD performance--as well as quality features like progressive-scan outputs with Precision Cinema Progressive technology and cool enhancements like Sony's Precision Drive 2 system for playing damaged discs. The DVP-NC665P/B plays just about any disc out there, from DVD-Video to DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R, and DVD+RW, in addition to playing hours of music from MP3 files burned to CD-R/CD-RW discs. Whether your living room is currently home to an HDTV or you're merely thinking of "someday," the DVP-NC665P/B stands ready to deliver the full potential of your DVDs through Sony's Precision Cinema Progressive de-interlacer (scanning) with 3:2 pulldown processing. Progressive scanning, referred to as 480p for the number of horizontal lines that compose the video image, creates a picture using twice the scan lines of a conventional DVD picture, giving you higher resolution and sharper images while eliminating nearly all motion artifacts. Precision Cinema Progressive technology uses a 12-bit video DAC (digital-to-analog converter) with 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. DVD mastering introduces a common distortion when adjusting 24-frames-per-second movies to 30 fps video; 3:2 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. Both Dolby Digital and DTS 5.1-channel surround-sound signals can also be routed through the player's digital-audio outputs (one each of RCA coaxial and Toslink optical) for a simpler connection to a compatible AV receiver (but be aware that digital-audio interconnects are not supplied). Precision Drive 2 provides a mechanism for reading DVDs that are in less-than-perfect condition, eliminating errors in playback due to imperfect, scratched, or warped discs. Past generations of Precision Drive technology were only able to compensate for warped discs by moving the entire optical block, which took more time and limited the amount of correction possible. This newer system simplifies the process by moving just the lens (instead of the entire optical block) for faster and more accurate error correction. As soon as you hook up the DVD player, a special Quick Setup screen appears ready to guide you through configuration, step by step, screen by screen. DVD resume memory kicks in whenever you stop a DVD. Later, when you come back to it, the player will pick up right where you left off before. The player holds resume points for up to six discs. Other playback features include 10-second instant replay, DVD/CD Text display (with applicable discs), a digital video enhancer, digital video EQ (equalization), custom parental control memory for 40 discs, as well as Advanced SmoothScan and SmoothSlow Modes. What's in the Box
DVD player, remote control, 2 AA batteries, a stereo analog audio/composite-video interconnect, a user's manual, and warranty information.
Sony DVPNC665P/B 5-Disc Progressive Scan DVD Changer, Black Accessories
Sony DVPNC665P/B 5-Disc Progressive Scan DVD Changer, Black Reviews
Mine did exactly what other reviewers are posting. Now it reads nothing. Anyway. kinda disappointed. I paid 150 bucks for this thing, I should at least get 5 years out of it you would think. (This feature should take a Widescreen DVD movie and "pan-scan" it to fit your old Sony 20-inch 4:3.
What's really funny is a Koss $30 DVD player that I bought later had no problem "Zooming" a widescreen movie to fit my old Trinitron's 4:3 screen. So I ended up buying a wide-screen TV anyway. It never worked.
SONY has some great products, but this is not one of them. About 6 months or so ago I started having trouble with it being really picky about discs being dirty or saying there was "no disc" when there was. You end up getting a lot of features for the price, but no reliability or longevity.
TV set). The "zoom" feature did not work for me either. It's amazing how sometimes you just don't get what you pay for.
Unless you plan on buying an extended warrantee, don't get this Sony 5 disc. I did try using a CD/DVD cleaning disc, but that did not help.
I have ALWAYS been a fan of Sony. Most of my electronic equipment are Sony products. My DVD player is the second product to go out after merely 3 years of ownership. If the normal life of a dvd player is 3 years, then I would give this player 3 stars; however I am not ready to admit that this is acceptable. I am glad to know that this is a common problem (the spinning of the dvd without reading), and will invest in another product.
So I think I will not buy any more Sony DVD changers. Now it will read nothing. Mind you I purchased it for not much more than that. :( And of course it is out of warranty so Sony will charge me either $108 to replace it or $133 to repair it. Ugh. The Sony DVP-NC665P played everything I put in it beautifully until a couple weeks ago. I bought this DVD changer 2 years ago because my old player would not read discs created by my Pioneer Tivo/DVD writer (DVD-R format).
and now it cant read any DVD's - there are countless reports of this problem with the unit - the risk of it failing is high.
I contacted Sony, who wanted me to mail it out to Texas and pay an additional $80 to have it assessed and then they would let me know how much it would cost to repair it. I assumed this was a function of it just being old, so after a lot of research I decided to by the 665. This is the second Sony dvd player I have owned. The first lasted over 3 years, and then all of a sudden it stopped being able to read the discs. After just over a year, it started doing the same thing as my old dvd player I could hear it spinning the disks in an attempt to read them, but it would then say "No Disc". After weeks of trying home remedies, I decided it would be cheaper to just buy a new one, but it certainly will NOT be a Sony dvd player.
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