Editorial Review:

Product Description:
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) *

Amazon.com Product Description:
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
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
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.

What's in the Box
DVPCX995V DVD player, remote control, batteries, AV cord, printed instructions



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Rating: - BUYER BEWARE! It ruins your DVD collection!
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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Rating: - $300 / Year
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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Rating: - Sony DVPCX995V 400-Disc DVD Mega Changer/Player
This is my 2nd one and I love'm. If you're looking for a 400 disk dvd player this is the ticket. the only down side (i don't really think so)is the on screen search. once you get more than 100 disk the on screen is way to slow. I keep written record and use that to search for movies. Oh yeah, the remote control have 3 different operating channels, this means you can have 3 of these with out the remotes conflicting.

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Rating: - Couch Potato's Dream
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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Rating: - Great product for the $$... But CYA!
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.