Sony DVP-NS425P Progressive Scan DVD Player, Silver

by Sony

Product Details

Product Manual [1.50mb PDF]

• Item Weight: 1 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 8 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• Shipping Advisory: This item must be shipped separately from other items in your order. Additional shipping charges will not apply.
• ASIN: B0000E2E2Y
• Item model number: DVP-NS425P
• Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #80,473 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Indulge in the entertainment Sony’s DVP-NS425P DVD Player brings home along with its chic style to complement your home decor. You willl enter a world of sharp images and incredible sound as you experience the benefits of Sony DVD first-hand. Featuring DVD+RW/+R Playback, MP3/CD-R/CD-RW Playback*, 10 Bit Video DAC with 54Mhz Processing, Dolby Digital and dts Decoding Compatible, and Component Video Output, this Progressive Scan DVD/CD Player is just what your looking for in digital entertainment. Where style and performance meet - the DVP-NS425P.

Features:

• Progressive Scan DVD/CD Player with 480P Output
• DVD-RW/-R (Video Mode) DVD+RW/+R Playback
• MP3/CD-R/CD-RW Playback*
• 10 Bit Video DAC with 54 MHz Processing
• Dolby Digital and dts Decoding Compatible
• Component Video Output
• General Features:
• Silver Finish
• Progressive Scan DVD/CD Player
• 480P Output Type
• Precision Drive 2 with Dynamic Tilt Compensation - Past generations of Precision Drive technology were only able to compensate for warped discs by moving the entire optical block, which took more time and limited the amount of correction possible.
• Sony's new Precision Drive 2 system simplifies the process by moving the lens-instead of the entire optical block-for faster and more accurate error correction.
• SVCD/VCD/CD/CD-R/CD-RW Playback*
• DVD-R/RW (Video Mode) Playback
• DVD+R/DVD+RW (Video Mode) Playback
• MP3 Playback: Playing MP3 Music on a Sony DVD player is easy. Just insert an MP3 encoded disc and press MENU. A blue screen pops up to Display your folders. Scroll down the list using the remote or front panel cursor control to select the folder you want. The green files screen pops up to show the files in the selected folder. Select the file you want to hear and you're done. Finding music couldn't be easier.
• DVD/CD Text
• 10 Bit Video DAC with 54 MHz process
• 192 kHz 24 Bit Digital to Analog Converter
• Dolby Digital and dts Coaxial Output
• Multi-Disc Resume- 6 Discs
• TV Virtual Surround - 4 Surround Modes
• Block Noise Reduction
• Digital Video Enhancer
• Digital Video EQ
• Custom Picture Mode
• Advanced SmoothScan and SmoothSlow modes
• Instant Replay and Instant Search
• Full 3-2 Reverse Conversion
• Inputs and Outputs:
• Component Video Output
• S-Video Output
• Composite Video Output
• Analog Audio Output
• Coaxial Digital Output
• Convenience Features:
• Quick Setup - Setup can be confusing and time consuming-but not with Sony's Quick Setup. As soon as you connect your DVD player, the Quick Setup screen appears ready to guide you through the process, step by step, screen by screen.
• You'll make the right configuration and connections in no time. Smart!
• Custom Parental Control- 40 Discs
• Remote Control w/Multi-Brand TV Control Compatible with Most Major Brands

Product Description

Indulge in the entertainment Sony's DVP-NS425P DVD Player brings home along with its chic style to complement your home decor. You willl enter a world of sharp images and incredible sound as you experience the benefits of Sony DVD first-hand. Featuring DVD+RW/+R Playback, MP3/CD-R/CD-RW Playback, 10 Bit Video DAC with 54Mhz Processing, Dolby Digital and dts Decoding Compatible, and Component Video Output, this Progressive Scan DVD/CD Player is just what your looking for in digital entertainment. Where style and performance meet - the DVP-NS425P.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Overall Very Unhappy., March 5, 2004

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Mega (Orlando, FL) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sony DVP-NS425P Progressive Scan DVD Player, Silver (Electronics)

I was running through the many DVD players that would support all the formats I needed. Typically I was thinking of staying in the 80 dollar range. Then I saw this Sony on sale for 99.99. I thought, Great a DVD player that plays ALL the formats, and Im getting a Sony.

Much like the other user, I have stalling issues through out any DVD I put in. It is NOT issues with the disk. But even worse is the terrible problems it has with darker transitions. For instance:

When its a black screen and you have credits that pop up....you see a darker patch of black across the screen fully -------Directed By Ridley Scott----------. Like that. It also has similar problems during movie play. One scene, A guy was in a darkened closet, and clearly your meant to see him vaguely. Instead, I got negative (like a negative from a picture) effect over his face. It did this same thing with several other movies.

Lastly, the ease of use is just horrific. I dare any of you to buy this product and think this Unit is convenient. Lack of FF, or RW speeds, Menu options that are poorly put together. Skipping through scenes is a horrific battle.

On the plus sides, the picture, when not affected by this units darker places problems, is pretty dag gone crisp.

Has lots of nice picture quality setups, and sound setups.

Plays all the formats for those of you who needs a guaranteed play em all unit.

Was the best looking unit I saw in many online and retail markets.

Overall, the studdering, and the picture quality issues makes this unit a big ol negative. I suggest finding something better.

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Bad playback problems, random stops while playing DVDs, January 31, 2004

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A. Staszewski "zewski" (San Francisco, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sony DVP-NS425P Progressive Scan DVD Player, Silver (Electronics)

This was my first DVD player, because my kids were getting sick and tired of playing DVDs on my computer.

The first one (DVP-NS425P)I got had what I considered to be serious playback problems.

While playing various DVD disks, it did not play the video smoothly, but would stop for a fraction of a second at random places during the film, before continuing smoothly. This happened several times while playing the same disk. When I scanned back past the spot where this happened, and then replayed the same section again, it did not happen again. But it would happen again at a different spot, and when I scanned back and replay again, the same thing happened; it played fine.

Another way to describe the problem is, that the disc seems to "stutter" at random spots. These are never the same spot on the individual disks. It happened with almost every disk I played. I have only played movie disks, that I own or rent. I have not played any DVD -R, -RW, +R or +RW disks.

The last time this happened was with a brand new DVD disk, fresh out of the box.

Thinking that I just had a faulty player, I went back to the store to exchange it for a new one. Unfortunately the new one does exactly the same thing. Except it does it worse. The random stops are now much longer. The player is being returned of a refund. I will not get a new one.

As far as I am concerned, this is a bad DVD player. On top of that, SONY tech support has been unhelpful and outright incompetent.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Decent for DVD only, not CD., February 28, 2004

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H. S. Jacob (Austin, TX United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sony DVP-NS425P Progressive Scan DVD Player, Silver (Electronics)

My goal was to purchase a cheap DVD player to drive a DLP projector and avoid going to the "high-end" DVD/CD units until later. The unit is a DVD player first and marginally a CD/MP3 player next.

VIDEO QUALITY:
After returning 2 different DVD players, I settled on this unit. DVD playback is very good and component video (480p to be specific) is clearly better than the NS725 and matches the video output of the Panasonic F85S. This quality approaches that of my computer's output. I don't have that many DVDs, nor do I rent very often but my friends who rent often say they have not had any problems playing discs....yet.

AUDIO QUALITY:
All forms of audio that's supported sounded as expected on my mid-high end system. Keep in mind that there is no fiber optic connector for digital audio (only coaxial). I don't have a subwoofer yet but the remaining channels sounded fine.

ERGONOMICS & USE:
The remote control is typical Sony. The button layout needs improvement but I didn't purchase this unit expecting or wanting every feature under the sun. Keep It Simple Stupid (KISS) is what I was looking for and basically what I got.

ANNOYANCE:
I've tested 4 of these players (via friends and 1 that I returned due to the problem described) and when playing CD's, the CD mechanism makes an annoying sound averaging at least once a second. When playing a DVD, this sound is not produced due to the rotational speed difference between playing a CD and playing a DVD. I ultimately accepted this problem as I will probably purchase a separate, higher quality CD player. Remember, I just wanted a cheap DVD player that had very good progressive component video.

BOTTOM LINE: It's a solid DVD player, but don't I don't recommend it if you think you'll be annoyed by mechanical noises when playing CDs.