Sony DVP-CX777ES DVD Player

This is my 20th DVD Player

By Yahoo! Shopping User  Apr 10, 2004 | 27 out of 29 found this Sony DVP-CX777ES review helpful

Pros: Nicely built, sturdy, beautiful looking machine, good picture quality.

Cons: Difficult to setup and operate, Slow, Glitchy

I am not ready to throw this DVD player out yet and it does provide a nice, clean and safe storage area for 400 of my DVDs, but at a price....The player is very nicely built. It feels solid and it is very beautiful, but it is not user friendly. Sony ...provides you with a remote packed with buttons and two different modes. Some of the buttons perform different actions, depending on the mode you have the remote set to. This can be very confusing and frustrating at times. On several occasions, it will freeze at the beginning of the video and you have to turn it off and on again to recognize the disk this time. I have had it get stuck once in the middle of a movie. Looking for a movie is a nightmare... Why couldn't they set up a lookup function like the TIVO. When you have 400 DVDs in this unit, your only options are to sort by location 1 - 400 or alphabetically. If the last movie you saw was 101 Dalmatians and now you want to watch Rocky, you have to scroll and search through the whole unit for Rocky, unless you know what number it is :). Another thing is that some movies have pre-programmed banners and others don't, so you may have a set of the same movies i.e.: The Pink Panther where 1 of the movies is called “Panther Strikes Again, The” and the others “The Pink Panther”, etc.. so if you're watching the whole series, you have to hunt for the other movies... Read more Less