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 enlarge | Brand: Sony
Category: CE
List Price: $79.99
Buy Used: $49.97
You Save: $30.02 (38%)
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Avg. Customer Rating:  88 reviews
Color: Black
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: Yes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 4
Dimensions (in): 17 x 8.3 x 1.8
Warranty: 1 year warranty
MPN: DVPNS700H/B
Model: DVPNS700H/B
UPC: 027242733886
EAN: 0027242733886
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 Did upscaling make a difference...?... June 13, 2008
15 out of 15 found this review helpful
I researched and reviewed over and over contemplating will it make enough of a difference to buy a upscaling dvd player. I bought this sony upscaling dvd player and as soon as i got it i tested several movie's scenes on it against my old dvd player(prolly about 5 years old or so) and yes to my contentment it surely looked better upscaled. Yes some people say dont waste your money on it it didnt do anything, and yes some will not look much if any different if they are older or the filming was done a certain way. im on to blu-rays now but do not intend on repurchasing my already large collection and an upscaling dvd player does make my regular dvds look better, some much better, especially newer ones. i have had this sony make some of my dvds look easily as good as an average (not great) blu-ray movie. I dont know how older dvds are designed and made, but it does vary, some look great, some good, and some not but bottom line if your like me and want the best picture possible for what you have this is indeed a good buy, i am very happy with it just dont expect magic. Also the precision drive to help read scratched up discs works great, i watched a very messed up miss treated dvd the other night and it did not skip a single time. Upscaling Does Improve Picture Quality Hope I have helped.
Excellent May 28, 2008
12 out of 12 found this review helpful
This slim upconverting DVP is a very nice piece of equipment. It produces a beautiful picture from ordinary DVDs. Controls on the "pizza-box" itself are the very simplest, but all you need to show a movie. If you want to play around, or actually study part of a movie--read the titles of books on a shelf, say--the track, motion, angle, step, mode, and other fancy controls are on the remote. The remote can control some non-Sony (BRAVIA) TVs or other units. The NS700H has 5 ways to connect to a TV or AV receiver. Check your TV and receiver and make sure one has available HDMI, or Optical Digital, or at least Component Video interconnects, depending on how old your units are. You'll have to get to the back of your dusty AV and relearn all the plugs and options and cable connections. That's the hardest part of setting up this sweet machine. Or maybe it's time for a new upgrade cycle before the $ sinks out of sight for imported electronics? I had to switch some interconnects around among my pre-existing components, and separately buy the cables to do so since only a lowly Composite cable set is in the box. Plan on juggling the TV, DVP, and any AV receiver controls to get the best enhancement, since their functions may overlap (like sound fields, volume, bit rates).
This single-play DVP, of course, is not a carousel for multi-disk extravaganzas. Nor is it an HD or a Blu-ray player. While it can play most CDs and in-region DVDs, and MP3, JPEG, and some recordable disks, it won't play others, for example, PHOTO CDs, DVD Audio, HD layer on Super Audio CDs, disks from AVCHD DVD cameras, DualDisks, paper labels, or some DRM schemes, among others. Get a peek at the manual if in doubt; the outer box says little about disk compatibility.
 Some have issues June 18, 2008
12 out of 15 found this review helpful
For the most part this is a great dvd IF you get one that works. I had two that were play about 90% of the dvd and then lose the picture. Finally gave up and switched to a different player. Had hoped that since this was not a extreme low end player, that this wouldn't happen. Load times for dvd was long. When the dvd played, picture quality was great, upscaling was almost as good as bluray. Menu system is fairly intuitive.
More than just a DVD Player (ultimate music player) July 27, 2008
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
I had 1080p upscaling on my PS3, but I moved the PS3 to the game area. So I needed a DVD player for
my 1080p 70" Sony TV. I was quite pleased with the video picture. It is really stunning when you run
SuperBit DVDs in it.
(A SuperBit DVD doesn't have the same compressed picture as a typical DVD. They eliminated all of the previews and behind the scenes garbage and used the entire DVD's storage for picture and sound.)
Although Blue-Ray is stunning, I just can't pay $30 for a movie I can get for $10 that looks really good as well. I ran Disney's Cars side to side via BlueRay and 1080p upscale to compare the formats. There was a lot more dimension and better color on the BlueRay, but not anything that justified 3 times the cost. I keep my BlueRay purchases to just the movies that will benefit the most from the format, for example when Ironman comes out, I will spend the extra for that. (sound is entirely different issue that factors into what kind of speakers and receiver you own).
One thing that gets overlooked with this DVD player is the ability to play music. Most folks don't realize that you can drag up to 700MB of MP3s onto a blank CD-Rom (approx. 150 songs) and play them on this DVD player. That is better than any 5 disc CD player. If you use an application like iTunes, you can burn songs on a DVD-Rom (4.2GB of MP3s) that is almost 1,000 songs.
I always like to tell folks you can burn your entire Xmas song collection on one disc and let it play randomly. The same goes for the entire Beatles collection or every Sinatra song on one disc.
It is really simple to do this, you don't need to be a computer geek to figure it out. iTunes makes it super simple (PC or Mac).
Also note, it you are a tech geek and you have .avi files or mpegs on disc, this will play them as well.
If you have home movies on your computer, just burn them to a CD or DVD-Rom and this DVD player will play them. You don't have to convert them or format them to a "DVD Video". Just leave them as mpegs.
This DVD player is one heck of a machine.
My Sony DVP-NS700H is great! May 1, 2008
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
I bought this player to be compatible with my Bravia TV and AV system. It is simple to setup (I am using HDMI connectivity) and use. It works flawlessly when using the Bravia Theater Sync features.
However, in my opinion, the best feature on this great DVD player is the video up-scaling (digital video upconversion). It looks awesome on my 52" LCD TV. You would have a hard time telling the difference between a good up-converted DVD and an HD satellite channel.
I watched Bullitt (1968) on DVD in my Sony DVP-NS700H player and it even looked good as compared to my old DVD player.
And how can you go wrong with the price!
Get this DVD player it rocks!
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