Good Upconverting DVD PLayer
356504
I purchased this upconverting DVD Player along with the Samsung LN46650 Flat Panel LCD.  I know some reviewers have said there is no difference when watching their old DVD's, but I beg to differ. I see new colors I never noticed before in DVD's we have watched many times on our old DVD Player.  Lord of the Rings is a good example.  I know that series of movies is dark, but the detail and color when watching them with this new DVD Player and the New LCD are incredible.  The other big bonus is the sound.  I do not use the TV sound, I run through an old Carver (analog)reciever that is 20 years old.  The sounds is incredible.  I hear words and dialogue that I have never heard before in movies I have seen many times.

On the down side.........I havee had this DVD player for about a month and started noticing that it stops occasionally in movies that it worked fine with before.  It is like someone pressed pause and then relesed it.  Does not happen alot and not on every movie.........but just something I noticed.  For $70, I can live with it though.

Overall, a great product for the money.
3381910
I bought this to replace my pioneer receiver, sounds really good for the price, as others mentioned before HDMI is passthrough only, it won't do any upscaling. Does not really matter if you have an upscaling DVD player already
3293450
A great, simple DVD player with an HDMI connection to help your old DVDs look great.  Quiet, remote is handy to have for exercise videos.
4125482
If you don't have much desire to watch video files from your computer on your television, you might want to get a different DVD player. This one is very good, but you can do better in terms of features, or just get a less expensive one.

However, if you're like me and you have far more video files than DVDs, this player is a blessing. I'm sure you're tired of watching things on a monitor, a couple feet from your face. This player will decode and play almost all files as well as, or better than, your computer. I stuck in a CD with RealPlayer files just to see if it would work, and unsurprisingly it doesn't, but everything else has played. A couple CDs (out of many) produce a buzzing noise while the CD is in the player (not just while playing), but that's with cheap CDs and I have no other playback complaints.

The on-screen menus are easy to use and while there aren't that many features beyond the standards, nothing is really missing. The remote is a little frustrating to use, but in total, this player easily earns 5 stars of life improvement.
4966029
it plays well  easy to set up and lives up to the name of sony

  this is the 2nd  of the same item  but the remote in both sonys

  you might as well be sitting on it to  have the remotes to work

  dvd part  nothing special  but vcr player works very well.

  next player  it does not need  to be a sony
2071141
I bought this player because of all the steller reviews I read on Amazon.
Com. I was looking for a player that would upconvert standard Dvd's from
480P to 1080I. My 5 year old Sony was still working fine but I wanted to
increase the scanning to present the movies in a more film-like detailed
way. I have a 5 year old projection Tv that is not able to display 1080P
so this player just fit the bill. My Tv also is too old to support HDMI
so I was concerned that I wouldn't be able to view thru the component
output connections any upconverted material. But I found a way.  Just
burn any commercial Dvd Movie that you own by using a computer and the
program DVD Shrink. Once you copy your owned dvd's using this method
they will all play back through the component video output connections. I also liked getting seven free HD-DVD movies to further sweeten the deal. I don't care about the "War-of-the-formats" ,I was just looking for a
decent upconverting player that cost less than other players and it supports HD-DVD too.
4193978
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1925044
I got this DVD on a local store (Sorry Amazon...). So far I have no complaints. This is a good option for someone who does not have the bucks and/or enough movies yet to get a Blue Ray, and it upconverts well. The USB port is a nice feature.
2932946
I picked this model up at the local Best Buy to use with my new 46" Samsung 720p DLP. In short, this player does what it's advertised super well. I was initially going to buy a less expensive Zenith upconverting player for $55. But when I saw this model had the USB drive to play downloaded movies without having to burn them onto DVD's, I was sold!!

I can't comment on how well it upconverts to 1080p, since my tv's native resolution is 720p, but the picture quality is simply many levels above what I'm used to seeing at standard resolution. In fact, after having watched "Gladiator" in upconverted 720p mode thru HDMI, watching it again in standard resolution thru the RCA hookups looked like watching streaming video clips off the internet!!! It's that much of a difference.^^

I haven't tried out the hack a previous reviewer posted to open up the region restrictions on this model, but I will soon. It'll be great to see foreign-bought dvd's on the same machine.
10880
I've had this DVD player for about a year now.  It plays everything I've put in it.  Picture quality is what you'd expect from a DVD player.  It passes Dolby Digital and DTS signals on the your reciever.  Overall, it's a solid DVD player though there are a couple things I don't like.  The first is that it's kinda pricy.  Newer JVC dvd players are just as good and can be had for almost half of what this one goes for.  The other is that there's a bright red light that comes on, when you turn it off.  Having a very bright light turn on to show that the unit is off is kinda stupid and rather annoying.  I covered mine with a piece of electrical tape.
Some things that I like about this player is the zoom feature.  You can zoom and pan on any portion of the screen both while it's frozen and while it's playing.  This would really be an awesome feature for watching widescreen movies in full screen if only the display for the zoom factor and panning didn't cover 25% of the screen.  It's still a good feature but not as good as it could be.
Another nice thing is that if you watch half a DVD, take it out and watch another, then put the first one back in, it remembers where you were.  I don't know how common this feature is, but it's very nice.
Overall, it's a nice flexible DVD player.  The newer onces have more features and cost less now.  Unless you are getting a great deal, buy the newer ones.
2918388
This DVD player is awesome. The up-conversion is flawless, plus you get an HDMI cable. The player also has a memory card reader and USB port which makes viewing photos, MP3s, or even downloaded movies a breeze.

Get yourself a Logitech Harmony remote and you are good to go.
1193856
I tried this out to see if it's new-fangled technology was worth spending $150 for when I already have an upconverting player. Actually I already have two upconverting players: a Pioneer and a Toshiba DVD recorder that I recently purchased to replace a Philips non-HDMI DVD recorder that finally died. I compared several DVDs using the XDE, the Toshiba DVD recorder (which onscreen looks exactly like the Samsung I once had), and the Pioneer, connected to my Optoma 720p projector. I found that new DVDs weren't much different on the XDE, but, contrary to another review, I found that older movies looked noticeably better on the XDE than on the Toshiba/Samsung recorder, with much less shimmering artifact in the bright/low definition areas like sky or snow, and much less graininess in the dark areas. However, the Pioneer DV410VK can almost match the picture quality of the XDE, for half the price, and with better menus and much more picture control. The Pioneer allows adjustment of brightness, contrast, color saturation and other video settings. The XDE looks great on the outside. If I didn't already have an upconverting player, I might buy this one. But it's not good enough to warrant spending another $150 when I already have an upconverting player. I think overall the Pioneer is probably a better deal.
3060349
The combo player does well what it was advertised to do and was very easy to set up. Picture quality is good with both formats. The tracking adjustment function really helps playing old VCR tapes that have degraded in the last 20 years or so. I would have liked an additional capability of converting VCR to DVD format, but after experiencing very bad reliability problems with devices from Toshiba (refused to play and release VCR cassettes after minimal use) and Samsung (never succeeded in recording in DVD format as was advertised, and later refused to play and release VCR cassettes in the same way as the Toshiba) I trust that the limited functionality of the Philips combo player will help it last longer. So far, I have used the Philips device for several hours.
2700242
A great up-converting DVD player with the best Divx/XVid playback on the market, bar none. You simply can't go wrong with this reasonably priced unit.
1184398
You are buying a small TV with a DVD player.  It is a 720p screen.  That is fine for what we use it for.  Everything works as expected and the sound is adequate.  I feel it is a good value.
315563
Just got this dvd player and I must say im really impressed with the upscaling great quality.  its easy enough to set up I used hdmi with this as its hdmi capable.

So far I will do this under pros and cons.

PROS

1.)Great upscaling picture quality.
2.)Easy set up
3.)Hdmi capable (less wires yay)

CONS

1.)Does not display dvd time on front of dvd player (but you can go into menus for this)
2.)The dvd tray is very flimsy. so if you watch alot of dvds im not sure the lifetime on this.
3.)This is typical but remote only links to certain tv brands (most of them) mine was not on list (Insignia)
4.) The power cord is short about 3 and half foot. (so if you have a media center you need the power outlet almost right behind it)

Would I buy this again for 44 bucks? Time will tell but at the moment Yes. Im not too concerned about the negatives of this player but if your looking for a more sturdy upgraded dvd player this is not for you. but if you want a cheap dvd player with great quality this is it.
4471687
Pros: Upconversion 5 Disc DVD Player, Sounds Good, Speak AUTO Calibration, Value

Cons: HDMI Passthrough only, Limited to 3 HD components, Fine Tuning Tedious, Too Many Cables Needed

Overall this is a good sytem for the price.  If you have more than 3 HD components then this is not the system for you since there is only 3 digital audio in connections and the HDMI connections are for video only.  The DVD player is excellent.

I've had this system fully connected for close to a week and I'm still fine tuning it.  The subwoofer is pretty good but I can see why some reviewers say it lacks punch.  I like it but the wife has me tune it down when she's around.  Be sure to read the reviews out there as I did to ensure an easier time setting the system up.