I bought this to replace a Philips DVP5990 player which had quit working. This model plays USB drives, a feature I wanted.I like this player a lot. It is smaller than the Philips, seems more solid, and accepts and releases disks more quickly. My wife thinks the picture is better. I think the sound is better. The remote is sturdier, and operates more easily and from a greater distance than the Philips without requiring that you point directly at the unit. The remote operated our Sony TV set without requiring any adjustments from me. I find this convenient sometimes for turning on the TV or changing the TV input to be our receiver. The remote will operate TVs from other manufacturers also.
The player is very small. You will probably not be putting another piece of equipment on top of it. There are controls and display lights on the top surface of the player, at the front right. I like this placement.
There are two negatives in comparison to the Philips: 1) there is no display, so you must bring up the control menu on the TV screen to know what track you are on and how much time is left; and 2) when you are playing from the USB drive, the unit shows only a single-level display of folders, regardless of what kind of hierarchy you've created on the USB drive. This second item is a significant issue for me. However I can't see deducting a star for this, in view of the major virtues of the drive and the very low price.
The package included two power adapters that work in U.S. sockets. Apparently one of the other reviewers did not receive these. It's too bad he rated the player so low because of this, when the problem was not with the player itself.
Since this is a Sony I'm expecting it to have a nice long life.
In saying that, this DVD player is brilliant. The size and weight are smaller than I'd expect from Sony, but the quality is all there.
A snap-on North American power adapter was included in the box, so getting this set up was pretty simple. As someone else pointed out, the default menu language appeared to be Spanish (maybe Portuguese?) but switching it in to English only took a minute. From there, I was able to easily change the default 4:3 configuration to 16:9 and make a couple of other tweaks.
Since this is just composite-out, you can't really expect upscaling or a near-HD experience. However, I found that the picture quality was excellent on domestic discs, and absolutely trounced the older Philips region-free player I've been using. In fact, this is the first region-free DVD player I've had that displays R2 discs from the UK in what appears to be a "normal" framerate and without jagged edges or other quality problems.
I seriously would have been happy if I had paid twice the price for this. If you're in the US and need to play imported DVD's, this is a no-brainer.i had been looking for an all region player, without breaking the bank.
this seller shipped fast and i got this for around $40.00, this player is simple, its small but, plays all regions, definitely worth the moneyGreat little Multi Region DVD player. Simple to set up and comes with American adapter. Instructions and display is in Spanish but it doesn't matter because it is so simple to hook up and use. So far I have been able to play DVD-R's and Pal format DVD's with no problems at all. Highly recommended.The only thing I have to add is that a downloadable English language manual is available from Sony's Asian support site (but not the U.S. website):
Enjoy...
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PJ
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