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.

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.

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,... Read more