Sony DVPNS725P Progressive-Scan DVD/CD Player

by Sony

Product Details

Product Manual [1.94mb PDF]

• Item Weight: 5 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: B00009L1V5
• Item model number: DVP-NS725P
• Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (29 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #24,909 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)
  • #65 in Electronics > Televisions & Video > DVD Players & Recorders > DVD Players
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

High-end video performance can be yours with Sony's affordable, progressive-scan DVP-NS725P DVD player. The versatile unit plays just about any disc out there--including DVD-Video, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R, and DVD+RW--and also plays hours of music from MP3 files burned to CD-R/CD-RW discs.

Whether your living room is currently home to an HDTV or you're merely thinking of "someday," the DVP-NS725P 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.

DVD mastering introduces a common distortion when adjusting 24-frames-per-second movies to 30 fps video; 3:2 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.

Both Dolby Digital and DTS 5.1-channel surround-sound signals can also be routed through the player's digital-audio outputs (one each of RCA coaxial and Toslink optical) for a simpler connection to a compatible AV receiver (digital-audio interconnects are not supplied).

Precision Drive 2 provides a mechanism for reading DVDs that are in less-than-perfect condition, eliminating errors in playback due to imperfect, scratched, or warped discs. 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 up to 40 discs.

Other playback options include 10-second instant replay, quick setup, DVD/CD Text, a digital video enhancer, digital video EQ (equalization), custom parental control memory for 40 discs, Advanced SmoothScan and SmoothSlow Modes, and multidisc resume (up to 6 discs).

What's in the Box
DVD player, RMT-D153A remote control, two AA batteries, an analog audio/composite-video cable, and user's manual.

Product Description

Sony presents the DVP-NS725P DVD Player. Offering Dolby® Digital and dts® Decoding Compatibility, 12 Bit Video DAC with 108Mhz Processing with NSV, and MP3/CD-R/CD-RW, DVD-RW/-R (Video Mode), and DVD+RW/+R Playback, a Precision Drive 2 System with Dynamic Tilt Compensation, and Precision Cinema Progressive (480P) Output , this DVD player packs features that enable a picture more faithful to the source. Additional features include TV Virtual Surround, 4 Surround Modes, Block Noise Reduction, a Digital Video Enhancer, Digital Video EQ, and Custom Picture Mode. Utilize the Title and Chapter Viewer, Advanced SmoothScan and SmoothSlow modes, and Instant Replay and Instant Search for convenience while you watch. Movie theater entertainment comes home with the DVP-NS725.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

31 of 37 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The whole is only as good as the sum of it's parts, December 14, 2003

By 

E. Stockett III "Electronics Canvasser" (Baltimore, MD United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sony DVPNS725P Progressive-Scan DVD/CD Player (Electronics)

The picture quality of Sony DVPNS725P is better then SONY DVP-NS425P in 480i & 480p mode. No distortion or blurring is found even w/o the progressive scan, just a little gritty. Once you turn on progression scan the picture clears up. Sony DVPNS725P has only a 10% difference in sharpness/clarity/color/hue/contrast between 480p progressive scan & 480i non-progressive scan mode. However, I believe that the unit's 12 Bit Video DAC with 108Mhz processor, regardless of 480i to 480p mode is why you see such little difference. The vertical lines simply double using the same picture quality in 480i mode improving video clarity overall.

Equipment:
TV: Sony Grand WEGA 42" KF42WE610
Video Monster 3 Cable: 1-Meter Coax Cable, 1 Meter Monster Video 3 component Cable

WARNING, WARNING, WARNING!
Component/Coax wires do affect the quality of your home video experience. The best DVD player connected to the best Plasma/LCD/DLP/LCOS TV will have negative effects on picture quality if you are not using the best grade of Component/DVI/Coax cable. Yes, you will have to shell out more money for theses accessories (in my opinion Monster Cable has proven itself in my house). However, this is the only way to achieve your large screen TV's maximum video performance. It appears that it's not only necessary but simply required! I get mad every time I read negative reviews on this DVD player or my TV when they never invested in high-grade video cables or, their TV is only 480i compatible & not 480p compatible (they can't properly use the DVD player's progressive scan feature). Please check your manual to verify 480p compatibility for your TV, as some are only 480i compatible while others are only 780p to 1080i compatible!!!

Here is a tip to improve picture quality for analog cable/antenna viewers:
Use a A/C powered, 2 port, coaxial, Electroline Drop Amp to improve analog cable
reception. The 18 gauged Satellite coax cable runs from the cable co. to the Electroline Drop Amp in my house. The 1 Meter Monster Video 3 coax cable (gray colored wire) will run from the Electroline Drop Amp to the TV thus improving picture quality.

Summary:
If you own a 32" to a 19" TV the SONY DVP-NS425P is more then adequate. However if you have a TV larger then 32" you need this DVD player along with high-grade component/dvi/coax cable to produce the clarity/color/contrast/hue necessary for a great theater quality picture.

27 of 33 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Sony NS725P - a real disappointment!, July 22, 2003

By 

M. Schlemma (Indianapolis) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sony DVPNS725P Progressive-Scan DVD/CD Player (Electronics)

While this player looks good physically, has a nice remote, and some nice features like the DVD jacket display during stop mode - I found it has terrible 3:2 pulldown for film mode. I checked it using several movies: Monsters Inc. (which looked incredible), but films like Forrest Gump, Sweet Home Alabama, The Matrix, and Fellowship of the Ring looked so bad compared to my Toshiba SD-4700, I had to take the Sony back. The picture looked overprocessed with noticeable artifacts to the point I couldn't even watch it. Especially tried the lobby scene in the Matrix - all the marble made a dizzying effect of inaccuracies on the screen. I really liked the player overall, and the video mode looked great, but film mode was just too bad to bear. I'm going to try the Toshiba SD-3900 next, which should be comparable to my 4700. Wouldn't recommend this for a serious home theater lover.

13 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Unacceptable!, February 22, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: Sony DVPNS725P Progressive-Scan DVD/CD Player (Electronics)

Stay away from this horrible offering from Sony. I purchased this based on the performance of my older sony dvd player (which is still working like a charm),but their quality has come way down. I once belonged to the cult of followers that outfitted their entire home theater components with Sony, but after my last a/v receiver and this dvd player, I have been set free.

This unit dazzled me at first with its high contrast picture and vibrant detail. Within days of constant use(mp3 playback, music dvds, movies, and tv shows on dvd), the image became highly grainy and noisy. Flesh tones took on a disturbing painted look and no matter what I did to my 42" rear projection Sony TV as far as adjustments, I could not get it to look right. DVD layer changes led to 2-3sec jumps ahead cutting out parts of the movie. Inexcusable! DVDs from my home collection of over 200(all in pristine condition) started to show problems with skipping, freezing, block artifacts, etc. Theses same DVDs put in my old player, which I still have in another room, worked flawlessly. I was shocked and maddened by this outcome. I had this unit for 17 days and really wanted it to be "the one". Sadly, it is not! In all fairness, I do not own an HDTV, so the image quality in progressive mode may be better, but disc performance will be the same.

Fortunately, I did alot of research before I bought this unit and went to get my 2nd choice yesterday(the Pioneer dv-563a) and I am totally blown away by its performance. Layer changes are not even noticable and the image is so film-like, it makes me smile just thinking about it. I gave it the 12hr workout and it was flawless. Unlike this unit, it can play jpeg cd-r, zoom the image of moving or static sources, random play mp3 files, the front display can be turned off, AND it can play SACD and dvd-a discs. At $150, you will not be disaapointed.*image/picture quality based on interlaced mode, not progressive, which is also part of both of these units.