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Sony DVPCX995V 400-Disc DVD Mega Changer/Player | 
 enlarge | Brand: Sony
Category: CE
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New (12) Used (5) from $249.99
Rating:  244 reviews
Sales Rank: 630
Color: Black
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 18
Dimensions (in): 21.2 x 17 x 7.5
Warranty: 1 Year Limited Warranty
MPN: DVPCX995V
Model: DVPCX995V
UPC: 027242668591
EAN: 0027242668591
ASIN: B000A3XRSO
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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| Features:
| • | 400-disc mega DVD and SACD changer; measures 17 x 7.8 x 21.1 inches (WxHxD) | | • | Up-converts video to high-definition (1080i/720p) resolution | | • | Compatible with SACD, DVD-RW/-R/+RW/+R, MP3, JPEG, CD-RW/-R, VCD and SVCD formats | | • | Outputs: 1 HDMI, 1 component, 2 S-Video, 2 composite, 1 coaxial audio, 1 optical audio, 1 multi-channel | | • | Dolby Digital and DTS 5.1-channel output |
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Product Description
Have you got a big collection of DVDs? Sony DVP-CX995V may be the answer for you. It stores up to 400 DVD - SACD(TM) and CD discs. It plays them too! The outstanding storage capacity of Sony's DVP-CX995V 400 Disc Progressive DVD/Super Audio CD Player is perfect for archiving your DVDs - especially in smaller spaces. For instant access to movies and music, select discs from your DVD and CD collection using the easy-to-use onscreen interface. HDMI (High-Definition Multimedia Interface) streams uncompressed digital audio and video to your TV or home-theater system in one convenient cable. The 400-disc changer is also compatible with DVD+R/RW and DVD-R/RW media for enhanced use and flexibility. For amazingly clear Super Audio CD sound and Precision Cinema Progressive video, Sony's DVP-CX995V delivers more of your entertainment. Custom Parental Control- 400 Discs Multiple Disc Resume- 40 Discs Custom Picture Mode; Quick Setup Sound Mode - Dolby Digital and dts / 3D Surround / Stereo Disc Explorer On-Screen Graphical User Interface 400 Disc Player With Keyboard Input (IBM PS/2 type) for labeling Precision Cinema Progressive de-interlacer with 3-2 Pulldown Processing Front Panel Buttons, Child Lock, Dynamic Tilt Compensation TV Virtual Surround, Block Noise Reduction (BNR), Display Dimmer Connections - HDMI Connection Output - x1 (R); Component Video Output - 1 (R); S-Video outputs - x2 (R); Composite Video Outputs - x2 (R); Coaxial Audio Digital Output - x1 (R); Optical Audio Output - x1 (R); Multi-Channel Output - x1 (5.1 Channel Rear); RCA Audio Outputs - x2 (R); Unit Dimensions - 17 W x 7.4 H x 21.1 D / Weighs 18.5 lbs Includes Remote Control and Batteries
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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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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| Customer Reviews: Read 239 more reviews...
 fast start work-around November 29, 2008
As others have stated... the DVP-CX995V wants to load the last disk used when turned on from the remote or front panel power button. This causes an un-acceptable delay while getting to the item I wished to play. While this work-around is a front panel operation, it is quicker than waiting for the player to 'do its' thing ' before being allowed to play what I want.
Press the OPEN button with the unit off... (the cx995v will turn on and open to 'the last slot played). With door open... use the DIAL to select the slot you want to play... press the play button, and watch your disk. Yes you need to know what slot to goto, but you likely have that list anyway. (I also use this for rented disks, just open... move to a blank slot... put in disk... press play)
I can hope SONY will, some day... look at users feedback while picking a new design, but I did say hope....
 Great DVD Changer November 12, 2008
This is my second one. After having one of these babies in the living room for about 18 months now (Hooked up to my Sony KDS-60A3000 Display) I bought one for my daughters room. Like almost everything, there are limitations. Nothing is perfect or pretends to be. I agree it is a bit slow, entering disc data is slow and tedious, and when you remove a disc to play on another DVD player or lend it to a friend the disc data is erased when you turn off the player. The reasons I was attracted to this unit was because it upgrades to 1080i through the HDMI connection (On my TV And My Daughters) and it stores and organizes a large amout of DVD's (Over 700) in one area without ever having to touch the discs. To me the picture quality is excellent on mine and my daughters TV (Toshiba Regza 42in LCD) but we have them both hooked up through the HDMI connections. We are both very, very happy with this unit.
 Great DVD player, but appears to have planned obsolescence September 21, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
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.
DVP CX995V 400 Disc- DVD Mega Changer/Player September 14, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
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 -
Dream Come True September 5, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
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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