Sony DVP-C650D DVD Player

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• Shipping Weight: 18 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B00004TIZW
• Item model number: DVPC650D
• Average Customer Review: 2.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #42,976 in Electronics (See Bestsellers in Electronics)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes
• Date first available at Amazon.com: September 4, 1973

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Sony's DVP-S650D 5-disc changer DVD player incorporates the patented Precision Drive System with Active Tilt Control, and a built-in Dolby Digital 5.1-channel decoder. Audio and picture quality are improved with Sony's Digital Cinema Sound, virtual 3-D surround modes and a digital image enhancer, which brightens the corners of pictures. The built-in video equalizer has three presets and one custom setting.

The full array of connectivity options, including two S-video outputs, two composite video outputs, one optical digital audio output, and one coaxial digital audio output enables the DVP-S650D to accommodate any home theater set up, including Dolby Digital and DTS.

The DVD/CD changer holds five discs and is compatible with most other Sony DVD MegaStorage changers. The DVP-S650D can display DVD and CD jackets from discs encoded with this information. Additional convenient features include a front jog/shuttle dial, DVD/CD text and memo, and parental control technology, which allows concerned parents to block out any DVD or restrict viewing of up to 200 DVDs. SmoothScan and bidirectional SmoothSlow guarantee less jerky searching and fast-forward/reverse slow motion. The front headphone jack has its own volume control, and Sony's Navigator remote control, with phosphorescent keys, is included.

Sony provides a one-year warranty on parts and labor.

Product Description

Sony introduced the first DVD carousel, the DVP-600D. The company's DVP-C650D improves on its predecessor with a lower list price, the ability to pass DTS audio signals and a Disc Explorer navigation system.The DVP-C650D is actually capable of controlling other Sony changers (both DVD and CD) with MegaStorage compatibility. Also, you can name DVDs and CDs in a Custom File. The DVP-C650D is better-featured than most 5-disc changers. It's the only model with a jog/shuttle dial on the remote control. It's also got a feature called Jacket Picture, which displays a picture of a compatible DVD's box. Another unique Sony tweak is the video equalizer, which allows you to make various adjustments to the picture and fine-tune video parameters. There are three presets and one memory slot to store your favorite settings. A defeatable digital noise reduction circuit should noticeably improve noisy pictures. Sony also touts the 650D's array of sound enhancements, such as simulated surround and the Digital Cinema modes.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

20 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great Picture and features, but not a simple player, July 6, 2000

By A Customer

If you want to pop in a few DVDs or CDs and just play them, this is a great player. Basic use is straightforward, but it does so many other things that a few hours with the instruction manual is necessary to figure it all out. Swapping disks while one is playing is a handy feature (although doing it while the shuffle play is on will cause the current track to end). With all the great features this player has, I am suprised that it won't play CD-Rs. Otherwise, this is a fine player with the best picture I have seen in a DVD player like this, and a great, new lower price that Amazon is offering.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Will not play CD-R, March 5, 2001

By A Customer

If you make your own audio CDs at home, don't buy the Sony units. Sony decided to leave the capability out of their units to play CD-R. I bought one, got it home and learned the lesson the hard way. I returned the unit for a refund. Buy the Pioneer, Phillips, JVC or Denon units that will play CD-R.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not the best product by a longshot, October 13, 2001

By	M. Alberts (seattle, wa United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I've owned this DVD carousel for about two years, and I bought it because, at the time, it seemed to be the highest quality carousel around. I will discuss features/issues, then ownership experience.

On the feature side, I have found this player very inconvenient compared to my Denon CD carousel. It has a seperate button for disc exchange and opening the tray, so if you are playing something and decide to exchange a disc and hit the open button, you will take the currently playing disc, stop it from playing, and move it to the fore. Of course, I habitually hit the open button, and this drives me absolutely nuts. Given that the open button is about three times the size, I'm thinking I'm not the only one with this mental block. Wouldn't it have been easier to just have one button, and assume if something was playing you didn't want to stop it?

The remote is another area where this is an annoying unit. There is no "next disc" button. So if you have multiple discs in, and want to switch them, you better know which disc is in which slot. They have a feature called "disc explorer" which is supposed to solve this, but I have never been able to get it to recognize the names correctly off of DVDs, and it doesn't work at all with CDs. This is just annoying, and a bad design choice.

Other than these features, it is really fairly basic. Because it doesn't stand out, I rated it fairly low for features/design.

Where it really deserves a lower grade from me is that I have owned this about two years, and it has died already. My CD changer lasted almost 10 years with considerably more use. There is no excuse for a DVD/CD laser going out in two years from a home machine these days. I won't be buying another Sony product involving a laser again.