Sony DVP-NS725P DVD Player
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- Number of Discs: 1
- Progressive Scan: With Progressive Scan
- Playable Disk Types: DVD-R DVD-RW CD (Audio) CD-R CD-RW
- Playable File Formats: MP3
- DVD Type: DVD Player
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Would be great except for POOR progressive mode
Pros
Plays just about everything; great array of features
Cons
Progressive scan mode is flat busted
Recommended it?
No
The Bottom Line:
If you're hooking it up to an NTSC screen, this is pretty good; if to your HDTV, immediately go elsewhere.
Sony almost had a GREAT product that I could recommend wholeheartedly. Almost.
As it is, I find myself extremely disappointed with its progressive-scan mode -- that function which is supposed to get rid of the interlaced jitter of the NTSC signal and deliver a full-frame picture to your HDTV. If you're looking for a good progressive scan DVD player to add to your home theater arsenal, look elsewhere.
The audio from this player is great, supporting Dolby Digital and DTS playback. The setup is relatively easy to use and includes a nice array of controls to adjust picture settings such as color, tint, and brightness. The remote ain't great, but not too shabby either. There are plenty of nice features to make this unit attractive to someone who just wants a good solid DVD player to hook up to an ordinary TV: CD, MP3 and SVCD playback, five disc memory, S-Video, component, and optical audio support.
But the progressive scan... oh, the progressive scan. There's no way to say this other than it's broken.
I first noticed this when I put in the movie "Willow" to try out the player. It seemed as if portions of the screen were flickering, almost as if they were interlaced. The frames are fine when you pause the DVD, but stutter terribly when played or when using the frame-step feature. I tried the various output modes -- interlaced, auto, "progressive video", and "progressive film" but there was no appreciable difference in the output, except that the flicker went away in Interlaced mode. Also, I found it highly annoying that the progressive mode button was only found on the unit and not the remote. Bad, bad, bad.
Some movies fare better than others. "Toy Story 2" and "Matrix Reloaded", for example, are presented accurately as far as I can tell. Others, like the special edition of 2001, are rife with portions of the screen that flicker, jitter, and jump due to inaccurate progressive-scan interpretation. I would hope that, since the picture is one of the most important benefits of having a DVD player with progressive scan, that Sony would have bothered to get this part right.
For your money, you do get a great number of features. But for those of us who wanted the kind of picture that Sony has promised, the poorly implemented progressive scanning of this unit earns it a raspberry.
As it is, I find myself extremely disappointed with its progressive-scan mode -- that function which is supposed to get rid of the interlaced jitter of the NTSC signal and deliver a full-frame picture to your HDTV. If you're looking for a good progressive scan DVD player to add to your home theater arsenal, look elsewhere.
The audio from this player is great, supporting Dolby Digital and DTS playback. The setup is relatively easy to use and includes a nice array of controls to adjust picture settings such as color, tint, and brightness. The remote ain't great, but not too shabby either. There are plenty of nice features to make this unit attractive to someone who just wants a good solid DVD player to hook up to an ordinary TV: CD, MP3 and SVCD playback, five disc memory, S-Video, component, and optical audio support.
But the progressive scan... oh, the progressive scan. There's no way to say this other than it's broken.
I first noticed this when I put in the movie "Willow" to try out the player. It seemed as if portions of the screen were flickering, almost as if they were interlaced. The frames are fine when you pause the DVD, but stutter terribly when played or when using the frame-step feature. I tried the various output modes -- interlaced, auto, "progressive video", and "progressive film" but there was no appreciable difference in the output, except that the flicker went away in Interlaced mode. Also, I found it highly annoying that the progressive mode button was only found on the unit and not the remote. Bad, bad, bad.
Some movies fare better than others. "Toy Story 2" and "Matrix Reloaded", for example, are presented accurately as far as I can tell. Others, like the special edition of 2001, are rife with portions of the screen that flicker, jitter, and jump due to inaccurate progressive-scan interpretation. I would hope that, since the picture is one of the most important benefits of having a DVD player with progressive scan, that Sony would have bothered to get this part right.
For your money, you do get a great number of features. But for those of us who wanted the kind of picture that Sony has promised, the poorly implemented progressive scanning of this unit earns it a raspberry.
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