Customer Reviews

Sony DVP-NC600 5-Disc Carousel Changer

5 star:		(9)
4 star:		(3)
3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(5)
1 star:		(10)

 

 

I'm enthusiastic enough about this product to give it five stars, but I haven't really explored all of it's functionality, so I held back. I have used the unit thoroughly for DVD and CD playback, and am completely satisfied, but I'm not enhanced sound enabled, so I can't really review the player as it relates to surround or Dolby use. It does sound great on my archaic two speaker/tuner system.

The unit was very easy to set up. Up and running in minutes, with a very intuitive interface. No real learning curve to overcome for basic playback use. Playback of DVD offers crisp picture and sound with no skipping, or frame loss. CD playback is great as well. Several great simulated surround audio options that sound pretty groovy, even without an actual hookup to a surround system.

Remote is functional, but not overly-impressive. Allows for you to program it for use with one other device, presumably your television or sound system. Control functions for the secondary device are pretty limited. Power and volume, basically. I do wish the fast scan function offered more speeds, but you can still blow pretty rapidly back and forth through segments you wish to skip. Remote does have a great feature that allows you to skip forward or back to the next scene marker on the disc. Other units I'm familiar with only have buttons for this function on the unit itself, and not on the remote.

The price point is a little higher than some other 5 disc changers I've seen on the market. However, I've had some bad experiences with lower priced units. I would say that the $50 - $60 extra bucks you might pay for this player will more than pay for itself in reliable, enjoyable use.

If you're looking for an affordable unit for general use, I'd say buy with confidence.

The unit I bought began freezing and pausing during DVD and skipping during CD play after the 30 day trial period. I sent it back to Sony repair center and they tagged a different problem (jittery picture) which they claimed they fixed. When I got the unit back, the original problem was still there along with a new problem, jittery picture. While I await it's repairs once more, I have read several other reviews from Sound and Vision readers and Audio Review to see that my problem is not unique. Others have reported the same problems. There is some serious defects or flaws in this unit making me wish I never bought it. That said, I do like all the features if I can just get a unit that doesn't fail.

This is an excellent product. I enjoyed using this DVD/CD player at home listening to music and watching movies. The 5.1 sound output is just clear and crisp. The only "drawback" if I may say so is that it comes with a not as good remote control where the buttons are somewhat hard to distinguish. Overall it is worth its price!

Granted, I am not an audiophile, but I did alot of research before building my first modern era home entertainment system. I eneded up with a Sony receiver and this Sony DVD player. I already had a Sony TV that I practically stole, so I kept i all Sony. Never having a DVD player before in my life, it was very easy to use. It has never skipped, plays music and video very well. The picture is crystal clear, when used with the S-video. The only thing I didnt like about it and most other players, is that, I dont like paying extra for the CDR and CDRW play back. I format all my music to work in any CD player. Its very simple to do on any modern computer. I also didnt like paying for Pro Logic and DTS decoding, when i allready have that in the Receiver. But its nice to have it, if you are going to just spend less on a receiver/amp without the decoders.

This DVD player is phenomenal. I have had mine for about 2 years now, and boy, it's been through heckfire and back. It doubles as my CD player and it is always running. I've had it up at school for the past few months and most of last year and my buddies are always messing around with it. The picture is crystal clear and the sound is great. It's loaded will all kinds of cool features that you probably never even knew existed. Anyway, this thing is durable. Don't know what you plan on doing with yours, but mine has fallen off the shelf several times and is constantly getting beer spilled on it by the jokers that frequent my house. The DVD player never seems to mind though. It always does what I ask and never gives me problems. Probably the coolest thing about this DVD player is the lights on the buttons for the disk numbers. The light will be green if there's a disk loaded in that spot and red if there isn't one. It is awesome. You never need to mess around with finding out which slot to put your next disc into. Plus, this is a Sony. How can you go wrong? Mine has lasted me this long and we constantly abuse it. Just think how long it will last if you take care of it! I promise you won't be disappointed with this thing!

bought it two month ago.

I tested it with all kinds of media: DVD, CD, VCD, and CD-R and have NO problems at all--no freezing/skipping.... Some of them have problems with my other DVD player and Xbox. There is a new feature with this unit called "precision drive II" which is designated to tolerate imperfect disks. Plus there is BNR to further enhances that feature! In my experience, NO other players at this price range can touch NC600 !!

Highly recommed it over Panasonic, Toshiba which, according to lots of online reviews, seem to have some *design flaws* instead of random quality issues.

Pros: quiet operarion;...

Cons: remote controller should have disk switch button for each disks.

I am using the Audio Digital output (optical) to feed in A/V Receiver. The sound problem reported by other users is NOT a problem here.

This was received as a gift two years ago. The remote stopped working just after the one year warranty ran out. The other day the entire unit stopped working. The laser stopped reading discs suddenly and would then read "No Disc." Sony has been no help. I've now been lied to by three people. I was told that you can either pay $141.70 and send it back for who knows how long and incur possibly more repair fees or for the same price get a like new unit of the same or better model and don't have to send the broken one in. After waiting the 7-10 days with no receipt of a new unit I called and was told the same thing as the first service person and to give it a few more days. Then today I got the same lies. This person told me they couldn't tell if it had shipped but just to wait. I told them to put me through to shipping where I was told that what I had been told earlier was not correct. I would, in fact, to send the unit it and it would take 10-15 days once they received it to ship the "new" one. I filed a complaint with that person and expressed my extreme displeasure. They did nothing to help. Needless to say, we are not sending the unit in and will spend our money on a product other than Sony.

I have been doing some online research for a solid/reliable DVD player under [a certain amount] for a while. Models I have been looking include some very popular ones like Panasonic RV32K (or RV22K sold at [local retailer]), Toshiba 2710 and others, and SONY NS315B/NC600.

For Panasonic, lots of complaints about that 'H02' error code which seems to me a definately bug with their decoding system.

For Toshiba, I also saw lots of quality complaints, like skipping, freezing, looping, etc. The problems are fairly consistant and similar.

For SONY, there are also some complaints, BUT they look like random quality problems instead of design flaws.

Features from NC600 that I give thumb-up are:
1. 'precision drive 2 system' which can read some imprefect disks (at least according to SONY);
2. 5-Disk changer--since I listen to a lot of music CD's. Also lots of DVDs have 2-disk versions in now days.
3. fairly quiet operation. (I've been running on my Xbox for my DVD/CD for a while and man they are noisy!).

I have a DVD ('Snow White' from Disney, new) which freezes in Ch.25 occasionally with my other DVD player, but runs fine with SONY. My Xbox skips (track 18 and after) on my CD -- "GH of America" but runs fine on SONY as well. I only got this player recently, 5/02, from [local retailer] for [dollar amount], not a bad deal, therefore I don't how reliable it will be. Judging from my other SONY products: TV, VCR, cassette player, it should be another good performer as well.

Only puzzle to me is that the model on the Box says "DVP-NC600/B", but on the unit/manual it is "DVP-NC600" with the "/B" part. ...
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above review was written 1 year and 4 month ago.

I accidently bumped into this thread again so I feel I'd give some update on the DVD player. It has been running flawlessly and I've trid DVD, CD, CD-R, VCD and some are of really bad quality and all of them worked fine. I'd have to say SONY did a good job in product quality control in this case!

Bravo SONY!

There is nothing worse than a product that starts failing just after the 1 year warranty period. Problem is skipping and stopping in the middle of CD's and DVD's. I started happening only occasionally and I thought it might be dirty disks - but soon realized that it occured on new disks and worse - it starts happening more and more frequently. From all the other reviews I see that I am not alone and this must be a reliablity problem with at least this Sony DVD player. At this point, I am checking to see if there is anything I can do to fix this thing cheaply but most likely this 1 1/2 year old DVD player is heading to the dump.