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 enlarge | Brand: Sony
Category: CE
Buy New: Too low to display
New (12)
Avg. Customer Rating:  244 reviews
Color: Black
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 18
Dimensions (in): 21.2 x 17 x 7.5
Warranty: 1 Year Limited Warranty
MPN: DVPCX995V
Model: DVPCX995V
UPC: 027242668591
EAN: 0027242668591
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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 Keep It Simple April 4, 2006
33 out of 35 found this review helpful
I've had my CX995V for a month and give it 5 stars for what it's best used for: conveniently storing and beautifully playing up to 400 DVDs. Forget CDs. The Sony CD carousels are much better for music CDs. They negate much of the criticism leveled at the CX995V. At $300 on Amazon, the CX995V is worth every penny for just your DVDs. And forget displaying disc information, the Disk Explorer, folders, searching, sorting, etc., etc.
It is essential that you create a simple spreadsheet on your computer as you load your DVDs. Disc number and title are really all that is needed. Don't bother with entering disc information on the CX995V, with or without a keyboard, and the real danger of losing everything with a power dropout or Sony hiccup.
Using your spreadsheet and the DISC/AMS knob, you can dial up your DVD after powering up. Press in the DISC/AMS knob and your DVD (eventually) begins to play. Is that too much trouble to play a 2-hour movie? I don't think so. When you're finished viewing, just turn the power off. Your movie will resume where you left off when you turn power on again. Yes, it will start over automatically if you've gone to the end, but just push stop and use the DISC/AMS knob to dial up your next selection.
The only thing the remote is good for is to navigate around menus, pause, fast forward or reverse, etc while you're watching a movie. Forget the myriad of other complicated, needless functions.
How difficult does it need to be to store, select,and play DVDs? Just don't forget to make the spreadsheet!
I'm sure we're going to watch a lot more of our DVDs now that we don't have to go through stacks of boxes to find what we want, struggle with the "press here to not release", and try not to drop the DVD on the floor.
Update October 18, 2007
We've had our CX995V for 18 months now, and i haven't changed my opinion. It's great.
 Great product. Saves alot of DVD case room. Use a keyboard. November 19, 2005
27 out of 30 found this review helpful
First I want to thank Amazon for the fast shipping. Also the amazing price for this product compared to some national electronic stores makes the purchase from Amazon unbeatable. My only gripe with delivery was that the external amazon box was undamaged but when I looked at the Sony box inside, it had a large gash that ultimately led to a small dent on the DVD player case. This shows that the Amazon warehouse people are not being as careful as they should when packing products before they ship. As for the player itself, it is large...very large. Be sure you have the space in your rack to place it. It goes very deep and the power supply extends even further. A tape measure is essential before you make the purchase. Once hooked up, the player was a breeze to setup. Simple setup instructions in the manual, covering every possible configuration for video and audio was clearly shown and the menu configuration for the player was easy to follow. The time consuming effort is loading the DVD's into the changer for the first time and cataloging them. I loaded 196 DVD's and it took the player about 90 minutes to scan them and the rest of the time was spent adding additional information about the DVD itself (Overall about 4 hours). The player only picked up about 20% of the DVD title information automatically. Even then you had to add artist information and genre yourself. Make sure you have the DVD cases sorted out in the exact same order as you load the DVD's or you will have to play each one one at a time to see what is in the slot. To add information with the remote will probably make you want to return this item after you have make the 50th mistake on the 4th DVD. A PS2 keyboard can be attached and is the only way to quickly add the right information. Once everything was loaded, the disc explorer was intuitive and easy to use. I now enjoy complete access to my DVD collection and the pile of DVD cases that used to sit next to my TV have a new home in the attic. Lastly, the video quality using component video and audio using optical is outstanding on my Sony 50" DLP TV and Bose Acoustimas 1200 system. I don't think I will ever see a movie theater again. 4 out of 5.
Don't rely on the internal title storage, use your own December 21, 2006
27 out of 29 found this review helpful
I've seen the reviews of others with their title information being wiped. Well, I found my personal solution which works better than it ever could.
Use Excel or a DVD library program (like DVD Profiler). Use that to store your DVD titles, along with the disc slot number where it was stored at.
Then get a 880 or 890 Logitech Harmony Remote (don't know if the lower models work). Export the title information to a .csv file (basically a comma delimited text file). Then upload that .csv file to your Harmony remote. With that, you can store all the title information on your remote and press a button on it to play the movie! If for whatever reason the remote memory gets wiped, I can easily upload the info again using the .csv file.
Another benefit of using a program like DVD Profiler is that I can just input the UPC number to get the title information. Don't have to waste time inputting the title information manually with the keyboard into the dvd player.
Oh yes, the Sony DVPCX995V is a great jukebox DVD player also. :)
 Very Disappointed. November 11, 2005
24 out of 30 found this review helpful
With all the complaints about ALL the previous versions of the Sony DVD Changers regarding usability, I was hoping Sony would get it right this time. The Disc Explorer is only slightly improved. For example, the title is no longer limited to 16 or so characters. However, when Auto Start is turned off, you still have to wait for the player to go grab the previously viewed DVD. Arrgh. This has been a complaint for so long it almost appears Sony just doesn't care. Also, there is no facility to access a DVD by number. I don't want to scroll through 300+ titles to get to the one I know is in slot 366.
Video and Audio quality are very good. Since that is not the purpose of this beast, I didn't consider those aspects in the rating. After all, I can get those features for much less money.
WONDERFUL, But set up is a little time consuming December 27, 2005
21 out of 22 found this review helpful
I purchased this unit to safely store my collection in a dust free, scratch free environment as we have small children who wreak havoc on DVD's. The sound and picture quality is incredible. I thought that it was a little extravigant to buy until I realized that I had already spent more than the cost of this unit on leatherette albums (25 DVD's to an album) as I have collected 300 plus DVD's over the years. When I fill this one up, I'll get another.
My only concern is the Filing of the DVD information. I filled the unit with my 300+ collection and proceeded to hit the "LOAD"
button. The unit spent a couple of hours loading and unloading each disc to "READ" the Disc info. (This can be done with the power in standby while you sleep). That amount of time is very reasonable considering I just piled over 300 DVD's into it all at one time. When all was done The unit only read the disc file information from about 1/4 to 1/3 of all the Discs. The process for manual labeling is very simple but time consuming. And I would HIGHLY !!!! recommend using a keyboard. Doing so saved alot of time. When I first loaded the discs I did not know exactly how many I had so I placed them into groups in about every 50 disc slots to "balance" the weight around the turntable. I had them in alpha order in their albums but messed that up when I loaded them around the turntable in my unecessary balancing act.Then when it was time to manualy enter the disc file info for the Discs that did not have the file info imbedded from the manufacturer, I had to manually view many of the discs to see what they were.(we're talking HOURS now) KEEP A LIST And write what number slot you put them in. It will save alot of time. Especially, if a long power outage erases the explorer info you just spent hours typing in. Once you have typed in the disc onfo into the explorer temporarily run the video output through the VCR and scroll through the folder menu as you record it. You cannot normally run the lines through the vcr as the anti copy softwre on the DVD will think you are trying to pirate it, but since you are only copying the folder menu screen it should work. When you power up the unit, The last disc viewed WILL auto start. This has shown to be very annoying to many but if you hit the "Folder" button the disc will stop and the Folder menu appears. The remote is a little hard to use. Having to slide the switch back and forth between the explorer and the DVD mode because some of the tiny buttons are multifunction is annoying. Having to start from Disc Explorer even if you know the number of the disc you want to view is just plain sad.
Overall I am very satisfied with my purchase and as I wrote earlier,When this one fills up (which won't be long) I'll get another.I do like the option of showing the disc info in the explorer menu in alpha order by using the "sort" button but it took me a few tries to figure it out.
P.S. Measure your space and make room!! It's bigger than it looks in the picture,and extra deep. the actual player part sticks out the back of the changer about 2 inches extra. I had to cut out the back of my shelf
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