Sony DVP-SR200P/B DVD Player, Black
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Sony's DVP-SR200P is a versatile DVD player with many features at an affordable price. It delivers excellent picture and sound quality so you get the most out of your movies. The Precision Drive 3 system allows you to playback some DVDs that may have been damaged or warped without a degradation of picture quality. It also plays music CDs or MP3s from a CD-ROM disc. For gatherings, use it to share photos with friends and families. You cannot go wr... » full description
Sony's DVP-SR200P is a versatile DVD player with many features at an affordable price. It delivers excellent picture and sound quality so you get the most out of your movies. The Precision Drive 3 system allows you to playback some DVDs that may have been damaged or warped without a degradation of picture quality. It also plays music CDs or MP3s from a CD-ROM disc. For gatherings, use it to share photos with friends and families. You cannot go wrong with this stylish home-theater sized DVD player, it is a perfect complement to your TV. « short desciption
User Reviews
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Review Date: 2009-11-23
I have this DVD player connected to my secondary TV (Sony LCD 32 inch).
I picked up this DVD player locally and brought the first one back, because something inside was moving as I shifted the DVD player - sounded like loose solder across the bottom of the player. The second one was OK.
I purchased this DVD player, because of the following useful options:
1. Multi-disc resume from a stopped position (6)
2. Multiple sound-fields through the TV, which transfers through to my Sherwood stereo amplifier, two small bookshelf speakers and an unpowered sub. The sound-fields add punch to movie and TV soundtracks.
3. Multiple picture modes (Dynamic, Cinema, etc), including a custom mode, which I can manually adjust the picture in greater detail. This works great for some of the TV series on DVD with grain.
4. Does not up-convert - This is what I wanted - a basic DVD player, with 480P progressive output.
5. The remote will control my TV power; volume; and TV input (video 1, component 1, etc)
While the picture and sound are very good, my Panasonic player from 2003 connected to my 50 inch Panasonic TV seems better. I think this may be attributed to the difference in the TVs, the video source and better cables. The Sony DVD player video is crystal clear for DVDs, like Finding Nemo (Most are), but needs some tweaking for TV series, even new ones that are in widescreen. I have a better component cable connected now, but will be upgrading to see if there is a difference.
The menu is fairly simple and easy to use, once the operating instructions are reviewed. I can navigate through multiple options while the movie is playing, but can not change the TV Set UP - Custom Menu for various settings, such as output from 16x9 to 4x3 (Full or Normal) while watching a movie- I have to stop the movie. Luckily, my Sony TV has the option to switch via one button on the remote from normal to full to wide.
Unfortunately, the zoom is limited to 2x or 4x, without multiple screen sizes, nor a manual adjustment. The 2x will zoom up the older wide screen movies that are in the older narrow format, like Nixon.
Lastly, I was hoping this DVD player would play damaged DVDs that I have. I have a Tombstone special edition DVD that has had problems on other players (Panasonic, Toshiba, Sanyo, etc), where it played half way and froze, pixilated after starting, skipped, etc. On the Sony DVD player it loaded, played the initial generic warning message featured on the video, but would not even jump to the menu.
Overall, this player is a keeper for my secondary TV, but I will keep looking for another back-up for my 2003 Panasonic as my primary player.
User: j.
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Summary: A Good Secondary DVD Player
Helpful Votes: 1
Total Votes: 1
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Review Date: 2009-11-22
we got this because our other, more expensive, dvd player didn't play certain undamaged and damaged discs. This one plays it all -- the picture quality is just a little less crystal clear than our more expensive one but good enough.
User: Amy M.
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Summary: Just what I wanted
Helpful Votes: 1
Total Votes: 1
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Review Date: 2009-11-21
At first it was hard adjusting to the limited means of playing my old LPs, especially with belts on turntables wearing out, styli going bad, etc. But equally discouraging was the discovery that, with the exception of those cheapo disc-sized players sold at the drugstore for twenty bucks (made by GPX, Emerson, Coby, J-Win, etc., and guaranteed to last a week or two), the major companies--Sony, Panasonic, etc.--had given up on CDs as a medium altogether (young people rarely buy CDs anymore). So I was beginning to despair of finding something other than my computer drive for playing CDs.
Then the idea came to me (slow and late, as usual). Why not look for an "ordinary" DVD player, if one still exists (it won't be long before even the "upconverting" models are history). This Sony is less expensive than the disc-sized portable players I had once used--and it's no more than the size and weight of 2-3 of those little frisbees. Incredibly compact, yet coming with an ample-sized remote and features like component cable connections (in addition to composite ones), compensation for different formats (4:3 vs. 16:9, video vs. movie), even a convenient timer button for determining the time used and remaining on an individual track or the entire disc.)
I don't plan to use it with a monitor, though its size and weight would make it the machine of choice for travel--whether on a vacation or to the old tube set in the basement. It'll play CDs, MP3 discs, DVDs, and practically anything else you throw at it, and it's just passed a couple of road tests by playing slightly damaged CDs that had jammed my car's player. It's hard to square something like this Sony with the large and expensive DVD players that first began appearing just 6-7 years ago. It's a black, sleek sliver of a thing, but it performs with the best of them (perhaps even including some upconverting models). Unless you plan to upload all of your CDs as compressed files stored in your computer (I know someone who did so but can't stop kicking himself now), this item at under 40 Prime may be just the ticket.
User: Samuel Chell
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Summary: A DVD player by any other name is... a perfect CD player!
Helpful Votes: 2
Total Votes: 2
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Review Date: 2009-11-21
This is a nice, inexpensive DVD player. If you just want to watch DVDs and are not really into all the bells and whistles of some of the more expensive models, this one will do just fine. It's great for an office environment, which is where I am using mine.
User: S. Buchanan
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Summary: good for what it is
Helpful Votes: 0
Total Votes: 0
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Review Date: 2009-11-19
I bought this for my son who is stationed in Germany so he could pass the time while he is away.
User: Brinda L. Conroy
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Summary: to pass the time
Helpful Votes: 0
Total Votes: 0
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