When you click down one movie, it has to redraw all the previous screenshots for each movie.Īnother gripe of mine, is that movies are not selectable (by name) outside the teeth pulling disc explorer. Once you have all your movies programed in, scrolling your 5 movies at a time is such a time waster.
#Sony 400 dvd jukebox movie#
Ask yourself this: if you own 400 DVDs (and want them all in one player), do you want to only see 5 of them at a time? If you own enough dvds to justify a 400 disc changer, then the probabability of that person owning a 32" or larger tv is also quit high, therefore sacrificing all the unused space for simple movie titles and getting about 20 per screen would seem a logical choice. It's the most unintuitive design ive ever seen. The engineers who designed the disc management interface, I am positive, never tried it in operation. I wish I had spent the time reading reviews, instead of months dreaming and waiting for my tax refund to arrive. Now, she can just dial up (on the player) what she wants and press Play.īuy one and work around the shortcomings. She rarely listened to CDs before because it was too much trouble to find them and put them on the player. But I'm sure if I get a plasma tv and hook it into a surround system it'll be awesome. I have the thing plugged directly into a 27" tv, not even stereo. I can't comment on the picture or audio quality since I'm not a videophile or audiophile anymore. This player costs $200 less than the Pioneer. My wife asked my why I bought it if it had so many annoying problems. One nightmare I read about but didn't have was scratched discs. Oh, and children are incapable of putting DVDs back in their cases. If you want to put on The Argument Sketch or The Contest, you can go right to it. Same with my complete Monty Python and Seinfeld sets. With everything transferred to DVD and loaded in a jukebox, I can finally really use my home movies. Without a player like this, most home video lies unwatched and even if you pop a tape in, you can't locate anything quickly. I can go to my kids' birthdays, Christmas of any year or specific vacation memories in seconds. Having 20 years of my life on deck changes everything. Didn't know whether they'd play when I bought it. What I'm most thrilled with is that it plays all my DVD+R home movies perfectly. +/- keys or press "Folder", then type in the disc number, enter, enter. If the remote had a jog dial so I could dial up a disc number, I'd be in heaven. It shows only 5 titles at a time, you can't page down and it doesn't load titles automatically from most discs. (It's inexplicable why Sony designed the Disc Explorer the way they did. Sony screwed up here, but the rest of the player is great. I took his advice, and after a cursory look at the Disc Explorer I haven't used it since. One reviewer mentioned that he avoided the Disc Explorer entirely by typing up a list and accessing discs by disc number only. Got a floor model for $345, so I was satisfied with the price. I chose a local retailer instead of an online one because I knew I might want to return it. Thanks to the dire warnings in reviews like these, I purchased this item with low expectations.