Ratings Snapshot
5 star:
12%
(1)
4 star:
50%
(4)
3 star:
25%
(2)
2 star:
12%
(1)
1 star:
0%
(0)
400 Disc Blu-ray/DVD/CD ES MegaChanger
Model number:
BDP-CX7000ES
Rated 3.6 out of 5 stars
Features: Full HD 1080p,Super Bit Mapping video processing, Dolby True HD and DTS-MA audio decoding with analog 7.1 channel output, BD-Live 2.0 support,RS-232 port, DVD playback and upscaling
ADDITIONAL IMAGES:
- Position 1 Overview
- Position 2 Features
- Position 3 Specifications
- Position 4 Gallery
- Position 5 Reviews
- Position 6 Accessories
The Ultimate Media Jukebox
Free up valuable shelf space and transfer up to 400 of your favorite Blu-ray Disc™ movies, DVDs and CDs to a single location. Search, sort and navigate your disc library by title, genre, cast and more using the supplied remote. Best of all, this MegaChanger is a fully-featured Blu-ray Disc player boasting standard features such as Full HD 1080p video output, DVD upscaling, BD-Live™ interactive features, and HD audio support. Additionally, the CX7000ES is the recipient of the 2009 CustomRetailer EXC!TE Award.
Excite Logo
-
Browse Movies by Jacket Art & More
Find your movies fast. The BDP-CX7000ES MegaChanger automatically downloads and organizes movies so you can search by jacket art, title, director, cast, genre and more-all you need is a broadband internet connection. Thanks to the online Gracenote™ database, you can find Blu-ray Disc movies, DVDs or CDs within the changer quickly and easily.1
gracenoca
-
14-bit HD video processor :: Standard video processor
Smooth Color Gradation
Enjoy ultra-realistic images and phenomenal color reproduction. Thanks to Super Bit Mapping, smooth color gradations are created with an 8-bit panel by outputting 14-bit equivalent color tone from an 8-bit signal via HDMI™
SBMV :: Super Bit Mapping
-
Sony CXD9957GF :: 0820YU400
High Quality 14-bit HD Video Processor
It’s all about the picture. The Sony proprietary 14-bit HD video processor includes HD Reality Enhancer and Super Bit Mapping technology which improves standard-definition and high-definition picture quality.
-
RS-232 Port for Full A/V Integration
The CX7000ES’s built-in RS-232 port allows the MegaChanger to be managed by compatible third party control systems for full integration into a custom installed audio/video system.
-
Bonus Content
Experience the future of interactivity with BD-Live™ technology. Download and stream bonus content such as additional scenes, shorts, movie-based games, trailers and more. Note: BD-Live enabled Blu-ray Disc, USB flash memory and internet connection are required.
BD Live
-
Phenomenal Sound Technology
Enjoy uncompromised sound from the comfort of your living room with support for the latest HD audio formats, including Dolby® TrueHD and dts®-HD Master Audio. You'll experience lossless surround sound with up to 7.1 channels of discrete audio that is bit-for-bit identical to the master studio recording. Surround sound speakers not included.
dts-HD Master Audio :: Dolby True HD
Product Reviews
Write a review( Rated 3.6 out of 5 Stars AVERAGE RATING | 8 REVIEWS Ratings Snapshot)
6 of 8 (75%) customers would recommend this product to a friend
Rated 4.000000 out of 5 Stars Ratings Snapshot
Awesome 400 Disc Blu-Ray Player
Pros: Picture / Sound and 400 Disc Blu-Ray/DVD Storage Unit
Cons: Minor Problem w/Software Going Back To "Unknown Disc"
Reviewer: BDReview (Central, Illinois)
Date: Oct 3, 2009
I've had this product for 1-3 months
3of 3 people found this helpful
Was this review helpful?
WOW what a machine!!... FANTASTIC Picture and Sound Quality is worth the price alone!!! Re-Watching movies on this machine for the 1st time is like watching a new movie. The picture color & detail is wonderful and audio sounds you never heard before. The realism of sound quality is unbelievable!.. It is the best by-far I have ever seen or heard in any Blu-Ray player... Excellent! Thanks Sony!.. However, now if Sony will only fix a few things & add few things in a firmware update. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ (1) Needs a wired or wireless keyboard connection via the USB port (2) Sometimes it will loose some disc labels and puts them back as "UNKNOWN DISCS". Seems to do it more when going though disc selections in very fast mode, say from 1 to 350+ by holding down on the button and not letting go. (3) Being able to select disks by typing in the slot number on the remote. (4) It holds memory for 50 disc on the audio selection, why not 50 disc resume, heck, 10 or 20 disc resume would be excellent!, would be great for those TV Series (5) Have in the Group selection or somewhere a list of the last 10 or so movies watched, this would be fantastic for TV Series, multiple seasons, to remember which season disc you were viewing last. (6) Would also be nice to go from disc 400 back to 1 without scrolling backwards to 1, plus some kind of page up/down would be nice too or even a 25 or 50 disc skip. (7) Select a Subtitle, then being able to turn it off/on by one button press instead of multiple presses, going through all the languages, just to get back to the off. (not good!) (8) I would like to see the chapter # playing in the on screen info area. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ A word about the Gracenote feature, at this point in time I would give them a 3 of 5 stars, good but could be much better, of course this still beats nothing at all and I'm sure they are along way from being done. We have some movies coming up with "German & Spanish" titles?? All our disc were purchased right here it the US-of-A. I don't think it's cool going in and renaming German disc titles back to English... isn't this Gracenote's job... ;) A famous Blu-Ray title like Pirates Of The Caribbean, in different language title?? You would have though by now Gracenote would have fixed this one. 20+ titles don't even display any movie jackets. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ However, I like the fact you can by the press of a button, see time laps or minutes left in the movie. .. The SORT feature & GROUP search is great! ? NO MORE plastic movie boxes laying all over the place! ? I've been absolutely happy with this purchase, at first before UPS delivered it, I was wondering if I might of made a mistake, not now, to me it was worth every penny, the quality is unbeatable!!
Rated 4.000000 out of 5 Stars Ratings Snapshot
Great video/audio; poor software
Pros: great picture and sound; built like a tank; easy setup
Cons: clunky menu; poor Gracenote performance; expensive
Reviewer: Chascmd (Tampa Bay)
Date: Sep 24, 2009
I've had this product for less than a month
10of 11 people found this helpful
Was this review helpful?
Video and audio are as good as it gets... The unit is a little slow but to be expected when searching through hundreds of discs. However, the great hardware performance doesn't carry over to the software. You can scroll through discs slowly and take forever, or try to speed it up and the titles become a blur. You need to make up additional genres, such as "Comic Book Heroes", to break up your collection into manageable subunits. For some reason, many DVDs show up in both the Photo and Video menus, even though nothing opens from the Photo menu. Additionally, Gracenote misses maybe 10% of the titles and 35% of the jacket art, even for recent releases. It also makes some weird genre selections and several titles appeared in Spanish! You can't add missing jacket art yourself. Overall, I'm satisfied because the picture and sound really are exceptional... and I'm hoping a couple of updates will bring the software up to speed.
Rated 5.000000 out of 5 Stars Ratings Snapshot
Love this unit!
Pros: Ease of use, great picture & sound
Cons: Not cheap
Was this review helpful?
A breeze to hook up. Menu is easy to navigate. Gracenote found & loaded the info for all but one title. Delivers excellent quality picture and sound.
Simplify your home theater with the versatile BDP-CX7000ES MegaChanger. Store, access and enjoy up to 400 of your favorite Blu-ray Disc™, DVD and CD media with the same player. At its core, this Elevated Standard (ES) MegaChanger is a fully-featured Blu-ray Disc player boasting standard features such as Full HD 1080p video output, upscaling of DVDs to near HD quality through an HDMI™ connection, BD-Live™ interactive features, and HD audio support. There's also a user-friendly, on-screen interface which makes it easy to sort and search by title, genre, cast and more, to quickly find the movie, TV show or album you're looking for.
Store and play 400 Blu-ray Disc™ movies, DVDs, and CDs
The Sony® BDP-CX7000ES Blu-ray Disc™ MegaChanger can store and play 400 Blu-ray Disc™ movies, DVDs and CDs8, allowing you to free up valuable shelf space and relocate all your discs to one convenient, easy-to-access location.
Sort and search your discs by title, genre, and more
Enjoy quick and easy navigation of your Blu-ray Disc™ movies, DVDs and CDs with the ability to search and sort by title, genre, director, cast, and more from your remote control.
7.1 channel analog output
7.1 channel analog output provides connectivity to older receivers, making the player compatible with many existing audio system.
DVD Upscaling via HDMI™
DVD upscaling via HDMI™ makes your existing standard DVDs look better on your HDTV by upscaling them to near HD quality via HDMI connection.5
Product updates
Product software upgrades can be easily downloaded and installed on the CX7000ES through your internet connection.
Built-in USB port
Built-in USB port enables you to connect a portable USB storage device (sold separately) for additional storage capacity and lets you take advantage of specially created content from BD-Live™2 with compatible Blu-ray Disc™ media.
24p True Cinema™
24p True Cinema capable lets you watch films at their intended 24 fps (frames per second) -- the way movies are shot and mastered -- so you can enjoy more cinematic picture quality.4
Advanced Exchange Program
Under Sony's Advanced Exchange program, if you experience a problem with your BDP-CX7000ES within 90 days after purchase that is covered under the limited warranty, you may be entitled to receive a new unit at no cost in exchange for your return of the defective unit.9
Downloads and displays jacket art, title, and other metadata
The Sony® BDP-CX7000ES Blu-ray Disc™ MegaChanger can take advantage of internet connectivity to download movie metadata such as jacket art, title, genre and cast information from the Gracenote™ service, and displays it in an intuitive, easy-to-navigate on-screen display.7
Fully-featured Blu-ray Disc™ player
In addition to storing and playing up to 400 discs, the BDP-CX7000ES offers all the capabilities of a fully-featured Blu-ray Disc™ player, including Full HD 1080p video output1, HD audio support, BD-Live™ access2, and the ability to upscale standard DVDs to near HD quality over an HDMI™ connection.5
Full HD 1080p video output
Full HD 1080p video output provides high-resolution HD images so you can take full advantage of your HDTV and the detail of Blu-ray Disc™ video content. Blu-ray Disc, DVD and CD compatibility lets you play your favorite Blu-ray Disc™ movies, DVDs, and audio CDs.8
Support for enhanced audio formats from Dolby® and dts®
The BDP-CX7000ES Blu-ray Disc™ player supports both internal decoding and bitstream output of enhanced audio codecs, including Dolby® TrueHD and dts®-HD Master Audio.6 These high definition audio formats delivers “lossless” surround sounds with 7.1 channels of discrete audio that is bit-for-bit identical to the master studio recording, allowing you to enjoy uncompromised sound from the comfort of your living room.
Ethernet port
Ethernet port provides connectivity to a home broadband connection for network updates, disc metadata downloads, and BD-Live™ access.2
Precision Cinema HD Upscale
Precision Cinema HD upscale uses advanced conversion and processing to detect image changes at the pixel level, rather than at the level of whole scan lines. Additionally, separate algorithms are used to process the moving and still parts of an image, resulting in sharp backgrounds with moving objects that are free from motion artifacts.5
Five Year Limited Warranty
The BDP-CX7000ES Blu-ray MegaChanger comes with a five year limited warranty for parts and labor.
Super Bit Mapping and HD Reality Enhancement
Super Bit Mapping upsteps the standard 8bit Blu-ray Disc or DVD video signal to 14bits providing extremely smooth video gradation, even on 8bit television panels. HD Reality Enhancement sharpens edges for super-crisp video.
RS-232 Port
The CX7000ES’s built-in RS-232 port allows the MegaChanger to be managed by audio / video control systems for full integration into a custom installed audio / video system.
Rental slot for quick loading and unloading
Quickly insert and start watching a movie right away with the dedicated rental slot. In addition, a button on the player gives you one-touch access to the rental slot for quick loading or ejecting.
BD-Live™ technology
BD-Live™ technology brings you the next generation of interactivity, allowing you to download and stream bonus content, such as additional scenes, shorts, trailers, movie-based games, and more. (BD-Live enabled Blu-ray Disc™, USB flash memory, and Internet connection are required.)2
xross media bar™
xross media bar™ user interface makes it simple and intuitive to browse and search for movies, as well as navigate menus, controls, and user settings.
BRAVIA® Sync™
BRAVIA Sync capability utilizes the HDMI™ CEC function easily turn on and control your compatible HDMI-connected components.3
Bonus View
Bonus View feature provides "picture-in-picture" capability with select Blu-ray Disc™ titles -- useful for viewing director or actor commentary while the movie plays.
Meets or Exceeds Energy Star® 3.0 guidelines for energy efficiency
The Sony® BDP-CX7000ES Blu-ray Disc™ MegaChanger meets or exceeds Energy Star® 3.0 requirements.
Product Specifications
Build Quality
- Hi-Quality A/V Parts : Yes
Convenience Features
- A/V Sync : Yes
- Alphanumeric FL Display : Yes
- BRAVIA® Sync™ : Yes
- ES Chassis : Yes
- FL LED Dimmer Off : Yes
- Quick Start Mode : Yes
Function
- Advance/Replay (Flash) : Yes
- Bit-Rate Indicator (Video) : Yes
- Disc Shuffle : Yes
- Easy Set Up : Yes
- Gracenote Metadata : Yes
- PREV/NEXT : Yes
- Play / Stop / Pause : Yes
- Playback Memory : Yes
- REV/ FWD : Yes
- Repeat (All/ 1title) : Music Only
- SLOW Playback : Yes
- Scene Search : Yes
- Startup Screen : Yes
- Tray Lock : Yes
- XMB : Yes
Video
- BD-ROM Output - Component : Yes- 480i/480p/720p/1080i(60Hz)
- BD-ROM Output - HDMI™ : Yes- 480i/480p/720p/1080i/1080p(60Hz)
- DVD R/RW Non-copy Protected Output - Component : Yes- 576i/576p/720p/1080i(60Hz)
- DVD R/RW Non-copy Protected Output - HDMI™ : Yes- 576i/576p/720p/1080i/1080p(60Hz)
- DVD Upscaling : HDMI(720p/1080i/1080p)
- DVD Video Output - Component : Yes- 480i/480p(60Hz)
- DVD Video Output - HDMI™ : Yes- 480i/480p/720p/1080i/1080p(60Hz)
- Deep Color : Yes
- HD Reality Enhancer : Yes
- Percision Cinema HD Upscale : Yes
- Preset Picture mode : BRAVIA® cinema mode
- Super Bit Mapping : Yes
- Video Digital-to-Analog Converter : Component: 1080i, 720p (12bit/148.5MHz); Y/C: 480i, 576i (12bit/54MHz)
Convenience
- IR Code Sets : 3 Sets Built-in
Video Features
- 24p True Cinema™ Technology : Yes
- AVC-HD : Yes (12cm only)
- BD-R/RE Read Compatibility : Yes
- BD-ROM : Yes
- CD (CD-DA) : Yes
- CD-R/RW : Yes
- DVD Playback : Yes
- DVD+R (DL)(+VR) : Yes
- DVD+R Read Compatibility : Yes
- DVD+RW Read Compatibility : Yes
- DVD+RW/+R (+VR) : Yes
- DVD-R (DL) : Yes
- DVD-R (DL)(VR) : Yes
- DVD-R Read Compatibility : Yes
- DVD-RW Read Compatibility : Yes
- DVD-RW/-R (VR) : Yes
- DVD-RW/-R (VR) with CPRM : Yes
- DVD-RW/-R (Video) : Yes
- DVD-Video : Yes
- Film Grain Reducer : Yes
- HD 24Hz to 60Hz conversion : Yes
- JPEG Playback : Yes
- Noise Reduction : Frame Noise Reduction/ Block Noise Reduction/ Mosquito Noise Reduction
- PhotoTV HD : Yes
- Picture Parameter Adjustments : Contrast/ Brightness/ Color/ Sharpness/ HUE/ Gamma
- x.v.Color™ Technology : Yes
Service and Warranty Information
- Limited Warranty Term : 5 Years
Weights and Measurements
- Dimensions (Approx.) : 17" x 9.5" x 21.9" (430x240x55mm)
- Rack Spaces : Six rack spaces. Rack shelf available from Middle Atlantic
- Weight (Approx.) : 31.3 lbs (14.2kg)
Audio Features
- Analog 2ch Output : Yes
- Analog 7.1ch Output : Yes
- Coaxial/Optical DTS® Bitstream Out : Yes
- Coaxial/Optical Dolby® Digital Bitstream Out : Yes
- Coaxial/Optical LPCM 2ch (~96kHz/~24bit) Out : Yes
- Dolby Digital + : Yes
- HDMI™ DTS® Bitstream Out : Yes
- HDMI™ DTS® HD Master Audio Bitstream Out : Yes
- HDMI™ Dolby® Digital Plus Bitstream Out : Yes
- HDMI™ Dolby® TrueHD Bitstream Out : Yes
- Individual Speaker Setting - Large/Small : Yes
- Individual Speaker Setting - Speaker/No Speaker : Yes
- MP3 Playback : Yes
Inputs and Outputs
- Analog Audio Output(s) : 2ch & 7.1 ch
- Coaxial Audio Digital Output(s) : 1 (rear)
- Component Video (Y/Pb/Pr) Output(s) : 1 (rear)
- Composite Video Output(s) : 1 (rear)
- HDMI™ Connection Output(s) : 1 (rear)
- IR Input(s) : 1 (rear)
- Optical Audio Output(s) : 1 (rear)
- RS232 Control : 1 (rear)
- S-Video Output(s) : 1 (rear)
Audio
- Digital-to-Analog Converter : 192kHz/24bit
In the Box
- Instruction Manual
- Product Registration Card
- Remote Commander (RM-ADP036)
- AC Cable
- 2 AA Batteries
- Warranty Card
We have detected that you do not have the Flash plug-in installed. Flash is a free plug-in that lets your browser display animations and enhanced content.
To begin automatically installing Flash, click the button below.
HDMI Cables
-
High Grade HDMI™ Cable - 9' 10"
$129.99
-
High Grade HDMI™ Cable - 16' 4"
$179.99
-
High Grade HDMI™ Cable - 3' 3"
$79.99
Linksys® Networking Products
-
Linksys® Dual-N Band Wireless Router
$199.99
-
Linksys® RangePlus Wireless Router
$99.99
Product Reviews
Write a review( Rated 3.6 out of 5 Stars AVERAGE RATING | 8 REVIEWS Ratings Snapshot)
6 of 8 (75%) customers would recommend this product to a friend
Rated 4.000000 out of 5 Stars Ratings Snapshot
Reviewer: BDReview (Central, Illinois)
Date: Oct 3, 2009
I've had this product for 1-3 months
3of 3 people found this helpful
Was this review helpful?
Awesome 400 Disc Blu-Ray Player
Pros: Picture / Sound and 400 Disc Blu-Ray/DVD Storage Unit
Cons: Minor Problem w/Software Going Back To "Unknown Disc"
WOW what a machine!!... FANTASTIC Picture and Sound Quality is worth the price alone!!! Re-Watching movies on this machine for the 1st time is like watching a new movie. The picture color & detail is wonderful and audio sounds you never heard before. The realism of sound quality is unbelievable!.. It is the best by-far I have ever seen or heard in any Blu-Ray player... Excellent! Thanks Sony!.. However, now if Sony will only fix a few things & add few things in a firmware update. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ (1) Needs a wired or wireless keyboard connection via the USB port (2) Sometimes it will loose some disc labels and puts them back as "UNKNOWN DISCS". Seems to do it more when going though disc selections in very fast mode, say from 1 to 350+ by holding down on the button and not letting go. (3) Being able to select disks by typing in the slot number on the remote. (4) It holds memory for 50 disc on the audio selection, why not 50 disc resume, heck, 10 or 20 disc resume would be excellent!, would be great for those TV Series (5) Have in the Group selection or somewhere a list of the last 10 or so movies watched, this would be fantastic for TV Series, multiple seasons, to remember which season disc you were viewing last. (6) Would also be nice to go from disc 400 back to 1 without scrolling backwards to 1, plus some kind of page up/down would be nice too or even a 25 or 50 disc skip. (7) Select a Subtitle, then being able to turn it off/on by one button press instead of multiple presses, going through all the languages, just to get back to the off. (not good!) (8) I would like to see the chapter # playing in the on screen info area. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ A word about the Gracenote feature, at this point in time I would give them a 3 of 5 stars, good but could be much better, of course this still beats nothing at all and I'm sure they are along way from being done. We have some movies coming up with "German & Spanish" titles?? All our disc were purchased right here it the US-of-A. I don't think it's cool going in and renaming German disc titles back to English... isn't this Gracenote's job... ;) A famous Blu-Ray title like Pirates Of The Caribbean, in different language title?? You would have though by now Gracenote would have fixed this one. 20+ titles don't even display any movie jackets. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ However, I like the fact you can by the press of a button, see time laps or minutes left in the movie. .. The SORT feature & GROUP search is great! ? NO MORE plastic movie boxes laying all over the place! ? I've been absolutely happy with this purchase, at first before UPS delivered it, I was wondering if I might of made a mistake, not now, to me it was worth every penny, the quality is unbeatable!!
Rated 4.000000 out of 5 Stars Ratings Snapshot
Reviewer: Chascmd (Tampa Bay)
Date: Sep 24, 2009
I've had this product for less than a month
10of 11 people found this helpful
Was this review helpful?
Great video/audio; poor software
Pros: great picture and sound; built like a tank; easy setup
Cons: clunky menu; poor Gracenote performance; expensive
Video and audio are as good as it gets... The unit is a little slow but to be expected when searching through hundreds of discs. However, the great hardware performance doesn't carry over to the software. You can scroll through discs slowly and take forever, or try to speed it up and the titles become a blur. You need to make up additional genres, such as "Comic Book Heroes", to break up your collection into manageable subunits. For some reason, many DVDs show up in both the Photo and Video menus, even though nothing opens from the Photo menu. Additionally, Gracenote misses maybe 10% of the titles and 35% of the jacket art, even for recent releases. It also makes some weird genre selections and several titles appeared in Spanish! You can't add missing jacket art yourself. Overall, I'm satisfied because the picture and sound really are exceptional... and I'm hoping a couple of updates will bring the software up to speed.
Rated 5.000000 out of 5 Stars Ratings Snapshot
Reviewer: geoffrsc (Arizona)
Date: Sep 19, 2009
I've had this product for less than a month
Was this review helpful?
Love this unit!
Pros: Ease of use, great picture & sound
Cons: Not cheap
A breeze to hook up. Menu is easy to navigate. Gracenote found & loaded the info for all but one title. Delivers excellent quality picture and sound.
Rated 2.000000 out of 5 Stars Ratings Snapshot
Reviewer: CRBC (Brentwood, TN)
Date: Sep 3, 2009
I've had this product for less than a month
6of 8 people found this helpful
Was this review helpful?
Beautiful in every way except flawed slot access
Pros: Elegant design, only Blu-ray Changer on the market
Cons: Cannot access Slots by number from remote control.
Purchased this Blu--ray changer to join my excellent Sony CDP-CX777ES DVD changer, which has performed magnificently since I purchased it several years ago. The BDP-CX700 ES is beautifully engineered inside and out as one would expect from Sony. The picture and sound quality is excellent. But unfortunately, the BDP-CX700 ES does not allow discs to be accessed by entering the Slot Number into the remote control. This omission prevents me from using my URC MX-3000 color touch screen remote with DMX-3000 to operate the BDP-CX700 ES. I'm hoping Sony will issue a firmware patch to fix this design flaw.
Rated 4.000000 out of 5 Stars Ratings Snapshot
Reviewer: Sorapp (West Palm Beach, FL)
Date: Sep 2, 2009
I've had this product for less than a month
7of 7 people found this helpful
Was this review helpful?
Best Blu-ray so far
Pros: Does everythong it promises, easy to setup and use.
Cons: Poor cover art retrieval, no selection shortcuts
This unit plays Blu-ray discs better than any I have seen. It also does a great job with DVD upscaling. Setup is extremely quick and easy. Disc loading, following selection, is about what I expected, about 20 seconds. The Gracenote lookup auccess rate will probably vary by each user's library content, mine was about 90% successful. That being said, the cover art success was only about 50%. For some reason a lot of the titles failed to retrieve cover art even though the title was found. You can manually modify the information retrieved, but you cannot add your own cover art. There is no support for this whatsoever. Manually entering info is rather tediious since you must use the number keys on the remote. A keyboard connection would be a big help here. The menu for selecting discs is basic but functional. It allows for sorting by title, genre or slot number. The cover art images are very small, making them difficult to see. Movement through the list is limited to up and down scrolling. Although scrolling is extremely fast, there are no shortcuts to move quickly through the list, such as skipping by entering a letter. Also a serious omission, if you wish to use a third party cataloging program for disc selection, is direct selection by slot number. They did, however, provide this capability if you use the RS-232 control feature. In my opinion if Sony were to upgrade the software with the following features, it would be close to perfect. . . User input of cover art. . Keyboard support for editing disc info. . Skip through list by letter. . Larger cover art images. . Direct disc sleection by slot number.
Rated 3.000000 out of 5 Stars Ratings Snapshot
Reviewer: ialvarad (Las Vegas)
Date: Aug 25, 2009
I've had this product for 1-3 months
8of 9 people found this helpful
Was this review helpful?
No SACD, No Wi-Fi, No keyboard input
Pros: Good image processing, sound, and design
Cons: As mentioned in the review tittle
Should have included all of the above, all my modem/router plugs are taken, so it took me the whole morning to set up a wireless ethernet bridge, some of the BR discs were not recongnized even after checking with the database, and typing all the info using the remote it's a real pain. Regarding SACD, previous megachangers should have included HDMI output for the format, this one doesn't even play them, felt shortchanged again.
Rated 4.000000 out of 5 Stars Ratings Snapshot
Reviewer: Dinnesdale (Renton, WA)
Date: Aug 5, 2009
I've had this product for less than a month
13of 15 people found this helpful
Was this review helpful?
Happy home user
Pros: Excellent upscaling
Cons: does not display CC, no joystick
I purchased this to replace my DVD/SACD/CD 400 Disc Changer, overall I have been pleased with the decision. The majority of my disc library is DVD so my main objective was to upscale to 1080p with the side benefit of being able to play BD titles. As I mention in the Cons, I was disappointed to find that some DVDs have a closed caption 'track' that can not be selected which makes some titles un-viewable. It occurs to me that this oversight could be resolved in firmware. I will be sure to write again if this has been corrected. My only other complaint is that my older changer had a 'joystick' on the front panel which allowed me to navigate the menus without the remote. This was left off of the MegaChanger, something I will miss.
Rated 3.000000 out of 5 Stars
Reviewer: jerseyguy (NJ)
Date: Aug 1, 2009
I've had this product for less than a month
38of 52 people found this helpful
Was this review helpful?
No SACD?
Pros: Finally, something that doesn't leave you at the mercy of a repurposed computer for your media server needs including BD
Cons: Even if I have just a few SACDs - do I really want to have to buy a separate unit for SACD?
Since the primary purpose of this device for me will be managing my music collection - I will go for the discontinued models that handle DVD and SACD and skip the BD. I hate to dump a beautiful product like this but the only reason I'm posting here is so Sony knows what its customers are thinking.
- 1080p playback requires HDMI connector (sold separately) and compatible HDTV with 1080p display capability.
- BD-Live™ content viewing requires BD-Live enabled media, internet access (broadband recommended) and external USB memory (sold separately). Firmware update may be required.
- Works with other BRAVIA® Sync™ or Theater Sync™ labeled home A/V products when connected via HDMI™ cable (sold separately).
- Deep Color and x.v. Color™ technology are supported only when source product, media and HDTV all support those features. 24p capable HDTV and HDMI™ cables required (sold separately).
- Upscaling requires HDMI connector (sold separately) and HDTV with equivalent display capability. Image quality will vary.
- Dolby® TrueHD and dts®-HD Master Audio decoding requires HDMI™ cable and receiver with HDMI input and LPCM capabilities (both sold separately).
- Some disc titles may not be supported by the Gracenote™ service.
- Certain circumstances may limit/prevent Blu-ray Disc™ media or DVD playback.
- Proof of purchase and a valid credit card are required to utilize this program. Your credit card will be charged only if the defective unit is not returned to Sony.
© 2009 Sony Electronics Inc. All rights reserved. Sony, BRAVIA, BRAVIA Sync, Theatre Sync, 24P True Cinema, x.v. Color, HDNA, and their respective logos are trademarks of Sony. Xross Media Bar is a trademark of Sony Corporation and Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. Blu-ray Disc is a trademark. BD-Live is trademark of Blu-ray Disc Association. HDMI and the HDMI logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of HDMI Licensing LLC. Dolby and Dolby Digital are registered trademarks of Dolby Laboratories. dts is a trademark of Digital Theater Systems, L.P. Gracenote is a trademark of Gracenote™, Inc. All other trademarks are properties of their respective owners. Features and specifications are subject to change without notice. Non-metric weights and measures are approximate.