Sony DVP-NC875V/S 5-Disc DVD/CD/SACD Changer, Silver

by Sony

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• Item Weight: 14 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 16 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• Shipping Advisory: This item must be shipped separately from other items in your order. Additional shipping charges will not apply.
• ASIN: B0002KQR1O
• Item model number: DVPNC875V/S
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #129,202 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Video and audio buffs rejoice: Sony's 5-disc, DVP-NC875V/S changer handles all your DVD, CD, and Super Audio CD (SACD) needs--including playback of MP3 music and JPEG image CDs. The player gives you all the convenience of a carousel changer--continuous playback, play exchange--as well as progressive-scan video outputs with Precision Cinema Progressive technology and cool enhancements like Sony's Precision Drive 3 system for playing damaged discs.

The DVP-NC875V/S plays just about any disc out there, from DVD-Video to DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R, and DVD+RW. And whether your living room is currently home to an HDTV or you're merely thinking of "someday," the DVP-NC875V/S stands ready to deliver the full potential of your DVDs through Sony's Precision Cinema Progressive de-interlacer (scanning) with 3:2 pulldown processing. Progressive scanning, referred to as 480p for the number of horizontal lines that compose the video image, creates a picture using twice the scan lines of a conventional DVD picture, giving you higher resolution and sharper images while eliminating nearly all motion artifacts.

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.

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.

Depending on the disc, SACD music releases provide super high-fidelity multichannel and/or stereo sound. As an anti-piracy measure, the DVP-NC875V/S performs its own decoding of SACD signals, passing high-resolution analog, not digital, audio to your integrated amplifier or surround receiver. This means you'll need an audio/video receiver with multichannel analog-audio inputs to appreciate multichannel SACD releases. Built-in SACD bass management helps you tailor the output level of the ".1" LFE (low-frequency effects) channel to your system, as an appropriate level may differ from the output level appropriate for Dolby Digital and DTS surround mixes.

If you're not planning to use the SACD capability for multichannel programming, both Dolby Digital and DTS 5.1-channel surround-sound signals can also be routed through the player's digital-audio outputs (1 each RCA coaxial and Toslink optical) for simpler connection to a compatible receiver (multichannel analog and digital-audio interconnects are not supplied).

Precision Drive 3 provides a mechanism for reading DVDs that are in less than perfect condition, eliminating errors in playback due to imperfect, scratched, or warped discs.

As soon as you hook up the DVD player, a special Quick Setup screen appears ready to guide you through configuration, step by step, screen by screen. DVD resume memory kicks in whenever you stop a DVD. Later, when you come back to it, the player will pick up right where you left off before. The player holds resume points for an impressive 40 discs.

Other playback features include 10-second instant replay, DVD/CD Text display (with applicable discs), a digital video enhancer, digital video EQ (equalization), custom parental control memory for 40 discs, as well as Advanced SmoothScan and SmoothSlow Modes.

What's in the Box
DVD player, remote control, 2 AA remote batteries, a stereo analog audio/composite-video interconnect, a user's manual, and warranty information.

Product Description

Enter a world of sharper images and surreal sound effects with Sony?s DVP-NC875V/S DVD Player. Created to simulate the ultimate entertainment, this 5-Disc DVD/CD/SACD Changer is packed with features.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

35 of 41 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars 5-Disc changer plays DVDs, CDs, plus terrific new SACDs, December 27, 2004

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D. R. Schryer (Poquoson, VA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sony DVP-NC875V/S 5-Disc DVD/CD/SACD Changer, Silver (Electronics)

This is a very good DVD player. But it has an additional feature which makes it very special: in addition to DVDs and regular CDs, it plays the new SACDs -- which are the finest sounding recordings currently available.

When conventional CDs became available they displaced LPs in the marketplace because of their small size and the fact that their sound did not degrade with the ticks and pops that even the best-maintained LPs eventually acquire. But, despite these advantages -- as well as significant improvements in CD sound over time with technological advances such as oversampling -- many connoisseurs maintained that CDs never achieved the warmth and high-frequency sweetness characteristic of top-grade audiophile LPs. Now that has changed. Super Audio CDs are superior in sound to the finest audiophile-quality LPs I've ever heard. Furthermore, even conventional CDs played on a SACD player sound better than they do on typical CD players. In fact, the best conventional CDs in my collection equal audiophile-quality LPs in sound when played on a SACD player and the new SACDs sound even better. If you're going to buy a DVD player, why not get one like which also plays not only regular CDs but the new terrific-sounding SACDs -- especially, when the price is so reasonable?

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent player--correction of misinformation, July 11, 2005

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S. McCrea "s_mccrea" (Henderson, NV United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sony DVP-NC875V/S 5-Disc DVD/CD/SACD Changer, Silver (Electronics)

This is an excellent DVD player, the best of the five set-tops I've owned so far.

Several of the reviewers present incorrect information about the player's capabilities. First, it DOES support MP3 tags, my MP3 disks--and I make a lot of them--show the names of the tracks. One could wish for MORE of the text to be displayed, but if one enters the data properly, the track can info can easily be read. In any event, this is normally only an issue with classical tracks, where, e.g., one might have a track title such as "Concerti for Two Mandolins, Strings, Orchestra, RV231, Allegro." With rock, pop, jazz tracks this isn't really an issue. The player, unlike ever other one I've owned, allows tracks to be scanned which aren't being played.

Second, the player's front panel display easily read from a distance of of 8 to 10 feet.

The picture quality is stunning with the latest generation DVDs. The first seasons of HBO's "Deadwood" looks absolutely stunning. Since I make legal archive copies of all my DVDs (for obviously reasons!) I can positively affirm that it supports all available formats (except Panasonic's proprietary RAM naturally). It handles over half a dozen different brands of DVD R & RW with no problem. I can also confirm that it has little trouble with scratched and damaged disks (provided my five year hasn't done a number on them!). While not 5-year old proof--and even PC burners have trouble with that!--it does deliver from moderately degraded disks.

We can dismiss the old nonsense about LPs sounding "better" than LPs right here and now. This was never true. I've listened to LPs in pristine conditions on $1,000+ record players and even the lowest end CD-player is far superior to any LP/record player combination. Asserting the opposite is indulging in nostalgia to the point of brain damage. I'll trade the clarity and lack of analogue fuzz and distortion over the fictional "warmth" of LPs.

Red-Book CD playback is excellent. But where it really shines is with MP3s, especially with 320 kpbs (the highest quality MP3 possible). It also handles CBR and VBR MP3s. The sound is absolutely stunning, far superior to Red-Book cds, let alone the century-old, cranky, crackly, popping archaic LPs. This player with also display album covers if they're in jpeg form. And MPS shuffle absolute IS possible with this player. Again, READING the directions will save one grief AND embarassment.

Although the Amazon technical description claims this player is not "THX certified"--I'm watching "Return of the Jedi" as I write this--it plays the THX is brilliant clarity.

This player has so many functions that I have yet to play with all of them. The "Quick Set-up" allows one to get going almost immediately. But it will take you a good while to explore all its capabilities.

It also has one outstanding function I've not seen on any other set-top. Even though my surround sound receiver doesn't have a DTS decoder, this player allows me to hear DTS tracks any way. An excellent and completely unexpected bonus.

I have yet to try the SACD capability, largely because there is very little music in which I'm interested that has been ported to this format.

Bottom line: a great player, with great features at an excellent price point. Ignore the ridiculous complaints from some reviewers and definitely consider this set-top.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars over-all , satisfied, May 3, 2005

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E. Canoura (florida) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sony DVP-NC875V/S 5-Disc DVD/CD/SACD Changer, Silver (Electronics)

the needs of individuals vary, my main concern is always the sound quaility, in this case I was very pleased. I also appreciate this units ability to deal with less than perfect conditioned dvds. Having said that, I did find the unit sluggish in response time and missed the title read-out. Yet over-all I was satisfied.