Sony DVP CX875P DVD changer

• Features include CD-R/CD-RW, DVD-R/DVD+RW, DVD-RW (Video Mode), and MP3 playback

I love the Sony 300 + 1 DVD player!! My original reason for wanting this DVD player was for space saving. While some may think that a 300 disc changer is extravagant, it really has lots of practical applications. Our home is very small and we had no place to store all of the VCR tapes that we had accumulated. They ended up in the coat closet in a box. So, everytime we wanted to watch a movie we had to drag the very heavy box out of the closet and dig through it to get the movie we wanted. Often, this resulted in deciding it wasn't worth the effort.

With the Sony 300+1 DVD player, all of the DVDs are inside of the player. I don't have to dig them out, find them, or set up. I just use the remote to turn on the DVD player, call up the menu, and select a movie. It is sooo easy! Did I mention that I don't have to waste space storing VCR tapes?

Some other neat features of this DVD player:

-recognizes the titles of some movies (depending on the DVD), so you don't have to program it

-for the ones that you do have to program, it is really easy, you can either use the remote control, or hook up a keyboard to the front of the DVD player

-four 'folders' are provided in the software so that you can organize your titles however you like, ex. by genre

-plus much, much more

This DVD player is very easy to use and program. Unlike the case in some homes, the wife (me) wanted this purchase. Though technically challenged, I have had no problem using this DVD player at all.

Another great feature of this DVD player is that because you don't ever handle your DVDs (unless you actually have more than 300, but not too many people do), they never get scratched! Or lost! It's great! If you are shopping for a DVD player, this is the one to get. Don't bother with anything else.

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The SONY 300 disc DVD jukebox has more features than most people will want to take the trouble to learn to use. It holds 300 discs plus one in an "EZ play" slot for easily inserting rented discs. The machine has a slow and complicated process for entering the information about the disc on the on-screen folder display. The contol buttons are unresponsive. Pressing any button on the remote or the front display is followed by an annoying pause during which you're uncertain if it will perform the function requested. It is possible to capture an on-screen image from the DVD to use as a label for the discs listing. Switching from play mode to displaying the folders showing all the discs contained in the player is very slow. The disc being played is ejected from the play postion and put back in the rack. There is a delay of ten seconds befoer the folder listings appear. I can seen no reason why this can't be done instantly. The player is able to flip a "flipper" disc, a feature I have never seen on any other DVD player before, it will do so automatincally if you put the disc in the wrong way. The player has an annoying on screen display the often says "Function prohibited by disc," for example when you want to see the main menu during the FBI warning. Other functions are adjusted through a confusing multi-level menu.

About one-third of my DVDs were able to fill out the folder listings automatically, all others needed a tedious several minutes long process to enter the disc's information. Despite these numerous complaints and shortcomings, it's still easier than having to get up and look at the spines of DVD jewel boxes on your shelf, pick one out and load it into your single-disc layer

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I purchased this DVD player with the same utopian dreams everyone else had; I can put all my DVDs in one convenient place, quickly scroll thorugh the menu and find the movie I want to play, and put all my DVD cases in a box in the garage.

I can put all my DVDs in one place, but there is nothing quick or convenient about it. First of all, the title line in the menu is ridiculously short. Only the short titles fit. For example, "Blow" is not a problem, but if you want to put in the title "Planes, Trains and Automobiles" you will have to enter it as "P/T and Autos"...that is all you have room for. What is even more aggravating is that some discs automatically load the title. Those discs not only get more room on the title line, but also get a second line below the tile. Heaven forbid the general public get the same number of characters to work with. In addition, the discs that do automatically load the titles load as for example "The Best of Friends" or "The Big Lebowski" so you do not find "The Big Lebowski" in the "Bs" you have to go to the "Ts" and scroll through the endless number of titles that start with "The". What makes it worse is that you can not go in and change the titles on the discs that automatically load. You are stuck with the title that is loaded. Some discs will even load as for example "Directors Cut Basic Instinct" so once again instead of going to the "Bs" I have to find "Basic Instinct" in the "Ds". Is it just me or should someone have thought of that before releasing this?

There is also a feature in the menu that lets you enter a frame from the movie. On the discs that automatically load, often times it will load the disc cover in the frame. Unfortunately, many of the movies just load scrambled nothing-ness. "Rocky IV" loaded as a green blob with a red frame. That might be cool in a modern art museum, but not in my menu screen.

Regarding the disc loading. It is as though an "evil spirit" possesses the machine periodically and decides to hide a DVD somewhere else. One disc will end up being put in an entirely different slot. I then have to manually find the disc and put it back and for some reason tiles just disappear. I can not tell you how many times I have lost information I have loaded. Mechanically speaking, the loader does not work either. I am to the point that if I want to watch disc #100 I have to manually remove disc #99 or it will not load.

Something else that bothers me is all the propaganda out there that this player plays both sides of the disc. Mine certainly does not. When I come to the end of side one, it loads the next disc...sometimes. Otherwise it locks up and I get an error code.

My machine also has a bad optical sensor. Need I say more. It is off to the repair man I go. I wonder if the electronics repair man can fix sledge-hammer damage?

I would like to know who at Sony decided to release this plague upon the world...I would also like the two Saturdays of my life back that I spent programming and loading all the titles...and my money back...but that will not happen because my 1 year warranty ran out. How convenient.

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Awesome storage capacity. Sony. Does it get any better? I don't think so! It is so nice just to be able to scroll through your movie list and not to have to mess with jacket covers and the like. Here is a little tip, I keep the covers in a plastic 8 1/2 X 11" sheet protector in a three ring binder for reference. Not that much difference in price. Definitely worth it!!

I have purchased the CX 860 and have purchased two of the CX875P and all of them continue to have the same problem with the opitcal sensor going bad (the sensor that reads the dvd). I have had two of the units already repaired and they are broke again and the last one I purchased 6 months ago just broke last week and now I am sending that one in to be repaired. I am tried of repairing these things. I was smart this time and bought the extended warranty on the dvd player, but the previous two I did not. I wonder why they want us to buy that extended warranty? because they know that these things are crap. I was told it was just bad luck (from a Sony Rep) that all three have had the same problem.....I don't think it is bad luck...I think there is something wrong with these dvd players