 "Sony fun X400" | 2008-01-05 |
| - Reviewed By Lino Martinez Jr |
| I actually got this as a Christmas present from my wife in 2006. I have it hooked up to my projector and a Sony 6.1 receiver. I wanted it because of the many files it can read. I love the SACD capabilities, mp3 and not to mention RW formats. Watching films on this is so much fun, and it also fun to fill in all the info of certain movies. Some movies even file automatically. There is really no problem with the system except for the remote control. I would have liked to see a more fancy design. I mean its a 400 disc player it should have some flash too it. This product is a must have for movie fans. Its does have HDMI so it can handle plasma's. I really love the system. And movies are lot more fun to watch. I cant imagine someone with over 400 DVDs not having one. I was really excited when I first came across this bohemian of a DVD player. I couldn't shut up about it. I guess thats why my wife got it for me. |
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| "OWNED FOR 11 MONTHS..." | 2007-10-05 |
| - Reviewed By Globalsounds |
| THUS FAR THE SONY 400 DVD PLAYER HAS WORKED FINE. I HAVE A FEELING THE REMOTE CONTROL HAS SOMETHING TO DO WITH THE LONGEVITY OF THE UNIT ITSELF. (eg: FLIPPING THROUGH, FAST FORWARD X2 X1/FAST REWIND X2 X1, SKIPPING FROM DISC #140 TO #305, HITTING PAUSE, PLAY, NEXT CHAPTER-FORWARD/BACKWARD WITH THE REMOTE. SPECIFICALLY, IT IS NATURAL THAT YOUR HANDS WILL PRESS A COMMAND FATER THAN THE UNIT WILL RESPOND TO THERE SENDING 'MULTIPLE' COMMANDS AT ONCE. THE OTHER FACTOR THAT CAN EASILY SCRAMBLE YOUR DVD PLAYER IS LOADING THE DISCS INCORRECTLY FOR THE WIDTH/THICKNESS OF SOME DVD'S ARE THIN ENOUGH TO NEARLY FIT TWO INTO ONE SLOT, MISSING A DVD SLOT IS EASY TOO, HENCE THE LOADING COULD EFFECT THE SWITCHING ABILITIES. I AM NOT SAYING THIS IS THE GREATEST INVENTION EVER NOR WORST AS I WOULD LIKE TO SEE HOW THIS IS WORKING IN 10 MORE MONTHS (IF IT GETS THERE) BUT IT APPEARS THERE IS NO REASON OTHER THAN HARSH USE THAT THE PLAYER SHOULD STOP WORKING. ANOTHER ITEM, IF YOU CLEAN YOUR DISCS, WHAT YOU USE CAN EASILIY CREATE AND LEAVE A RESIDUE INSIDE THE CAROSEL UNIT AND DIGITAL READER CAUSING ISSUES. I DON'T USE ANYTHING EXCEPT A DRY FINE FUR CLOTH AND WIPE THEM CENTER OUT, NOT IN CIRCULAR MOTIONS BUT LIGHTLY BRUSH FROM THE CENTER PLAY SIDE OUT. IF YOU LIVE IN A DUSTY AREA OR DUST GET'S IN THE UNIT, THE ONLY THING YOU CAN DO IS TO USE THE AIR SPRAY DUSTER AND AIM IT DOWNWARD WHERE THE DISC SIT AND THE DUST WILL CIRCULATELIKE A SCOOP FROM BOTTOM TO UP AND OUT. SHOOTING THE DUSTER AT THE READER IS NOT SUGGESTED. ALL OF THIS IS JUST HOW I HANDLE THE UNIT AS I HAVE A NEED FOR ANOTHER 400 DISC PLAYER AS ALL I PLAY ARE DVD'S AND HAVE NEARLY 750 BUT READING SOME OF THE NEGATIVE COMMENTS MAKES ME HESITANT TO BUY ANOTHER. TO SLOW DOWN ON THE REMOTE ITCHY FINGER, I USE A UNIVERSAL R7 REMOTE ($50) AND IT SLOWS DOWN MY SURFING BECAUSE YOU HAVE TO MAKE SURE YOU HIT "TV" TO TURN THE TV ON/OFF, "AUD" TO TURN THE RECEIVER ON/OFF INCLUDING VOLUME AND SWITCHING BETWEEN TV-DVD-CD-SOUND CONTROL, "DVD" AND SO FORTH. YOU CAN COMMAND THE UNVERSAL REMOTE TO POWER ON/OFF ALL UNITS BUT I FOUND THIS IS NOT GOOD FOR A CABLE BOX AS YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO LEAVE IT ON AT ALL TIMES BUT PROGRAMMING ALL UNITS TO TURN ON/OFF ETC MINUS ONE UNIT (THE CABLE BOX) CONFUSES THE UNIVERSAL REMOTE (I THINK AS I ATTEMPTED TO POWER ON/OFF 4 UNITS WHILE LEAVING THE CABLE BOX OUT AND THE TV WOULD WORK CORRECTLY. FINALLY, USING THE KNOB TO TURN THE CAROUSEL, IF YOU TURN THE KNOB AND PUSH IT IN, THE DOOR CLOSES AND WILL BEGIN TO PLAY, SO WHEN USING THE KNOB AND TURNING THE DISCS TO CHANGE A POSITION OF A DVD OR RE-ORGANIZE THE DVD'S, BE CAREFUL TO JUST RUN THE KNOB AND NOT ACCIDENTALLY PUSH THE KNOB IN AS THIS COMMAND IS NOT REALLY MEANT TO OPEN AND CLOSE THE DOOR AS YOUR CAROUSEL IS TURNING AND THE DOOR IS CLOSING ALSO "CONFUSES" OR "JAMS" THE PLAYER BECAUSE YOU ARE GIVING IT TO COMMANDS AT ONCE, OBVIOUSLY NOT GOOD FOR THE MACHINE.
I'M SORRY TO BORE ALL OF YOU WITH WHAT MANY OF YOU ALREADY KNOW BUT THIS IS MY EXPERIENCE AND WAY I'VE HANDLED MINE AND IT WORKS JUST AS IT DID DAY ONE (KNOCK ON WOOD). THE ONE POST I READ WHERE AFTER 1 YEAR, THE UNIT WOULD SKIP DISCS, NOT PLAY ALL THE DISCS AND THEN IT IS JUST A CAROUSEL NOT ABLE TO PLAY ANY DVD'S IS VERY STRANGE. SOUNDS LIKE THE UNIT WAS A "LEMON" IN THE BEGINNING (NO OFFENSE TO YOU) BUT SONY IS PRETTY GOOD WITH BACKING THEIR PRODUCTS AND I WOULD GO DIRECTLY TO "SONY-STYLE" AND TELL THEM YOUR EXPERIENCE AND THEY JUST MIGHT REPLACE YOUR UNIT! I BOUGHT A SONY LAPTOP AND THE BATTERIES RAN HOT AND I REQUESTED A NEW BATTERY AND THEY SENT ME THREE! I JUST KEPT ASKING TELLING THEM THE BATTERY'S ARE RUNNING HOT AND THEY KEPT SENDING ME NEW ONES AND I WAS SUPPOSED TO RETURN THE HOT ONES BUT DIDN'T (NOT GOOD) BECAUSE I MIXED THEM UP BUT THEY NEVER DID ANYTHING EXCEPT SEND ME AN EVALUTATION CARD ON THEIR SERVICE!
SENDING THESE UNITS OUT TO GET FIXED IS SOMETHING I HAVE NEVER DONE BECAUSE I HAVE'T HAD TO BUT IF I DID, I ASSUME YOU SENT IT TO A SONY AUTHORIZED REPAIR SHOP BUT ALL REPAIR SHOPS ARE FIXED BY PEOPLE AND UNLESS YOU GET A TOP SONY DVD PLAYER TECHNICIAN, IT IS EASY FOR THE REPAIR TO DO MORE HARM THAN GOOD. IF THE UNIT ON LAST 12-18 MONTHS, I WOULD BUY A 2-4 YR WARRANTY AND JUST GET A NEW ONE EVERY YEAR ESPECIALLY SINCE THEY HAVE THE NEW SONY 400 DISC DVD PLAYER THAT RECORDS NOW WHICH IS MUCH MORE EXPENSIVE BUT AT 12-18 MONTHS, A $300 UNIT WITH A 2-4 YEAR WARRANTY SHOULD BE $80 AT MOST (SLIGHTLY UNDER 1/3 OF THE COST) THEN JUST GET A NEW ONE EVERY YEAR FOR 4 YEARS AND YOU HAVE A CHANCE TO UPGRADE FOR 4 YEARS?! I HOPE THIS MAKES SENSE AND HELPS SOMEONE?! |
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| "Pretty good machine" | 2007-01-06 |
| - Reviewed By skydanccer2003 |
| Had my 995v for over a year now and have never lost any info that was put in. I've never had any scratching problems and have 2 daughters that can cause more damage. As for the speed, it is a bit on the slow side, but still faster than looking on my 2 bookshelves of over 600 DVD's to find a movie. Then take it out of the case and load it in my single disc player. The folder fill listing titles is easy to read and easy to scan through. Recommend having a written movie list numbered to match your movies in the players folder. I'm preparing to buy my second machine of which you can set the remotes to 2 other setting to control up to 3 different players. This maching has been a blessing, but does take some time to set up and input titles. You truly need a simple key board if you've had your movies for a long time. The newer movies are loaded with title information the player will load. Instruction manual is had to follow but after reading over it several times starts to make sense once you get going...
I would recommend this machine to anyone that is a serious collector of movies... |
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| "This Player Works Awsome for the Cost>" | 2006-05-31 |
| - Reviewed By adjohnson2323 |
| I have had this player for about 2 months now. I got it at a very good deal and I too went through all the reviews on this product and I thought How can you go wrong with having a 400 disc player that plays pretty much any kind of media and has HDMI for under 300 dollars. That's unheard of especially when single hdmi players are still in the hundred or so range for the cheap ones. I myself am very satisfied with this machine, but you are right it does have a few drawbacks like the auto-start and how slow it is at reading disk .
It also has some cool features that help keep things pretty easy to access even though it takes a little bit of work on your part setting it up.
on the user guide issue the remote is the main problem I use my receivers learning remote and programed the folder button as it its own without having to use that stupid disk explorer slider thing .
In other words the remote sucks. |
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| "Great DVD player, but appears to have planned obsolescence" | 2008-09-21 |
| - Reviewed By User: A20V9L103HJTYW |
CONS: Have owned one of these for the past three years and over the past 6 months the unit started to have progressive failure. Firstly the player started to have intermittent problems reading discs, these problems started as the player failing to read discs during playing and freezing for a short time on an image on the screen on occasional discs. I thought the player was laser may have been dirty and ran a cleaning disc through the system and no difference. Then the frequency of problems picked up and the player would freeze for prolonged periods. Towards the end it was not possible to watch a movie without the unit freezing up completely. the piece-de-resistance came when trying to unfreeze a disc that the unit erased the 400 titles that I had entered into the player (say 350, because it actually identified the titles on about 50 of the discs that I entered).
PROs: In spite of the above I replaced the original unit with a new one. Why? Firstly the price was right and we have little kids and it is so easy to be able to pick a movie that they want to watch while sitting in the couch - no need to have discs hidden away from prying little hands. Also in the three years that we had the previous unit, and in spite of power outages, we never lost the details of all the discs that we had entered into the unit, unlike other reviewers here.
One word of caution it is a lot easier to enter the movie titles when using a keyboard (PS2 connection, not USB). However I had to try three different keyboards until I found one that had the relatively low wattage requirements needed for the player to pick up my keystrokes.
The disc sorting by title, number or genre makes it easy to find a movie.
The picture is beautiful when attached to a 50 inch plasma screen via component output. |
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 "DVP CX995V 400 Disc- DVD Mega Changer/Player" | 2008-09-14 |
| - Reviewed By bvzkcamp |
This piece of equipment is a beast! I love it! It may not be perfect, but it upconverts to 1080, plays DVD-R and +R and DL DVDs. It gets rid of all those DVD cases and looks sexy in the cabinet. This is my 3rd one and I have hooked up in a series and it puts a great pictures on a Sony 60in screen. I know there is a move out there to put video on DVD, but if that fails you lose all the video. Here I have it all at the ready, protected in the case.
Pros- easy hookup, sharp looking, great performer, online updates for firmware from Sony, great upconversion
Cons- Big unit, remote functions not great manual is average -
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| "Dream Come True" | 2008-09-05 |
| - Reviewed By User: A3N7TH5RT0QDYZ |
| I love this 400 disc changer, sure it takes time to load a disc, but it keeps the discs safe and scratch free, I might buy another one or 2 I collect TV shows onto DVD much better to have them where they are safe and usable. Don't let the negative reviews put you off this is the thing I have been dreaming about and at a price that is great. |
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 "Not bad for the price..." | 2008-08-25 |
| - Reviewed By User: A2I5ZXDA6E9QJX |
| This device seems to work pretty well. The things I don't like are that its a real time consuming hassle entering DVD information. Few of my disks even autoload the title. I plugged in a keyboard and it helped getting titles in for a little while. Then the keyboard connection quit working and I was back to using the remote. It retrospect I would spend a little more and get a friendlier product... |
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 "BUYER BEWARE! It ruins your DVD collection!" | 2008-08-07 |
| - Reviewed By slewis157 |
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. What a nightmare.
I bought this to keep my DVDs from gettting scratched - Ironically it ruined a good chunk of my collection.
Sony Support would do nothing for me, except for "Sorry" and "you can pay for a repair!
I would advise you consider something else. |
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| "$300 / Year" | 2008-08-01 |
| - Reviewed By User: A2LY7DVIRKDJEJ |
This product is a fine product, a dream come true, until one of two things happen:
*All Titles Dissappear - Yes thats right, after spending hours entering all your DVD titles into the system, you will lose all that data. Not a question of if, only when. Fortunately, if you are willing to give up a Saturday every couple of months, thats not too terrible.
*Eventually Stops Reading All DVDs - Yes this is the killer, the death rattle. This will happen, again not a matter of if, only when. 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. This will happen and you will have to replace the product.
Bottom Line - Holds a ton of DVDs and displays titles which is wonderful. However you have to basically pay $300 / yr to operate this thing because you will have to replace it just about every year.
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| "Couch Potato's Dream" | 2008-07-15 |
| - Reviewed By janitorjamez |
I'm on my third and last Sony disc explorer! (Sony DVPCX995V 400-Disc DVD Mega Changer/Player)
This four hundred DVD carousel player, though not perfect, is a great way to
Organize and play a large DVD collection. Up to three of these massive
players can be controlled by a single (included) remote. Through the HDMI
output these units will up-convert standard DVDs to HDTV and will do
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
show then move it to a single DVD player.
I only wish I could get something like this for Blu-ray!
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| "Great product for the $$... But CYA!" | 2008-07-02 |
| - Reviewed By soonerdude |
| I feel your pain, Mr. S. Reid. I haven't had the best of luck with Sony's after-sale service for my daughter's Viao laptop. But I learned almost 10 years ago that products as complex as these mega changers need insurance. I have owned two Pioneer 300+1 CD changer, the second was given to me within the a week after the first one cratered on me. Best Buy didn't quibble over the upgrade I got because the model they carried was a newer version and cost more. Anyway, about 5 year ago a bought the Sony DVP-CX870D 301-Disc DVD/CD/Video-CD Player with a 5-year extended warranty; the predecessor of the Sony 400 DVD changers. I bought the same unit for my folks about a year later with a warranty. Are you seeing a pattern here? Both units have since been upgraded. Mine was due to a disc being jammed, which knocked all the other discs down inside the changer, locking it up. After recovering all my disc, I basically did as I had done before with the Pioneer changer and upgraded to the Sony DVPCX 985V 400-Disc DVD changer. My folk's 301 Sony changer started misplacing discs and generally acting like an Alzheimer victim. After a visit with the Best Buy's repair facility, it too was upgraded to the same 400 changer. That's 6 units over a cumulative operational life span of 21 years. Not a great record to be sure, but then again, three are still working fine after 9, 4, and 3 years, respectively. I guess my point is, BUY THE WARRANTY! These things have moving parts, circuits, and firmware that can fail. Otherwise, they're terrific machines. |
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| "Sony Disc Changer" | 2008-06-12 |
| - Reviewed By User: A2WD6D3BSX9HFZ |
| I bought this for my husband and it has been the best gift a woman could buy a movie junkie...He Loves it and has filled it up and wants another one. It was delivered very fast and was in top condition...Great Service |
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| "I Love This Product--Great Engineering" | 2008-06-06 |
| - Reviewed By danny_oh |
I read all the Haters, Whiners, and Complainers before I purchased
this item. I went ahead and bought it because (1) I trust SONY as
a manufacturer, and (2) It offers the best deal on the market for
a Multi-Disc changer, period. I've had the SONY DVPCX995V for 7
months now, and LOVE IT! One can't truly expect instant access
from a machine that has to access 400 Discs. The Whiners do--
unrealistically. Much faster than accessing Discs manually.
The other complaint is that you can't access Discs with the Remote
Keypad, the Whiners said. Ah, but you can Grasshopper! You simply
hit the Display File Key, Click the Right Arrow at the top slot in
the upper left hand corner, and plug in the slot number, on the
little lines, that you want with the Remote Keypad Numbers, hit
Enter--and Voila--the machine will go directly to the Disc you
selected.
True, you can't turn off AutoPlay with the Manual's (or any)
directions, but I like the AutoPlay feature. So no worries for me.
A slight quirk for such a remarkable machine--I forgive it.
All in all, I play DVDs, CDs, CD-Rs, CD-Vs with no trouble.
I bought a HDMI-A Cable and hooked up the SONY Changer to my new
SONY LCD TV, and I love it even more. The Upconvert function is
fantastic. A great improvement on all my DVDs.
Entering Disc information--too slow and cumbersome, The Whiners
claim. If I have just one or two new Discs to enter into the
system I use the Remote to enter in the info--if more I use a
Keyboard. Simple. You can't expect The Internet to do all the work
of life for you, as some Whiners want in this regard.
I'm a Scientist and a Realist. This SONY delivers all it promises,
and more. Bye-bye Whiners. I hope you're happy with whatever you
ended up buying. I'm very happy with my SONY Disc Changer--one of
the best pieces of Audio/Video equipment I've ever bought in my
long career as an Audio/Video aficionado. |
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