Sony DVP-NS57P/B Progressive Scan DVD Player, Black by Sony
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Digital camera reviews of Sony DVP-NS57P/B Progressive Scan DVD Player, Black
Digital camera Review: Good Product
Summary: 5 Stars
Player has worked well since we got it; it's a little slow, but still more than adequate. Picture quality is very good as well.Digital camera Review: Good but not great. Good price, though!
Summary: 4 Stars
This unit wasn't expensive so I gave it a try. As other reviewers have mentioned, it is annoyingly slow to boot up, read a disc, and start playing. The other really annoying "feature" is that a gentle push on the tray will NOT close it! Seems like a simple thing I took for granted with my previous players, but now it's kind of annoying on this one. Still worth it for only $50, but I wish they had added this simple feature.Digital camera Review: Good choice, great value for the price.
Summary: 5 Stars
NOTE: This review is a copy&paste of my review for the 2005 SKU/model/version of this player ... Sony DVPNS50P. After that it became the "55" model before this year when it became the "57" model.
DECEMBER 2005: I have only had this item for about three weeks or so. I am hoping that it "holds up" over time, unlike a lot of other DVD players on the market that apparently fail so quickly they are practically disposable in nature.
The "pros" on this item (so far) are:
* sleek, slim, uncluttered look of the unit
* comes in either black or silver, so you can match it up to your other devices.
* easy set up. There's a electrical plug, trip-RCA jacks and an S-video jack. Hook-up is a snap. Hardware-wise, the device, then, is really uncluttered.
* seems to be a good deal for the price.
The "cons" (so far) are:
* as said elsewhere by other reviewers... it IS slow. Slow to boot a disc. Slow to re-start a disc that has been stopped. Just slow.
* the display readout on the front of the box. It scrolls words like "welcome," "open" "close" and "no text." The firmware engineer was apparently out to lunch on this one. There's not even a clock display. It will display the time the DVD has played, thank goodness.
*the on-screen menu is pretty lame. Must have been the same engineer. The menu choices are only displayed as cryptic graphics, and the choices for each graphic are brief and uninformative (as in "on, off, auto" or similar types of statements). You will absolutely have to work through the manual to figure it out. And you won't find a lot of useful functionality after you do. It is a pretty bare-bones box.
* The remote control could use a good bit of improvement. The text is large enough to read ... but the buttons barely protrude from the face. You have to grasp this thing firmly, get your finger right on the button and apply a good bit of pressure to score. And a lot of the buttons can't be pushed while the thing is sitting on the coffee table ... the back of the device is beveled at the top, so if you press on the buttons near the top -- common usage buttons like TV on/off, box on/off and open/close -- while it is sitting on a level surface, the thing just flips up in the air. And the range is horrid. It can't handle getting its signal over the edge of my coffee table three feet away from the box. You've got to pick it up and aim it directly at the device if you want the box to respond. There's no facilitation for using the remote at night (no glow in the dark, backlighting, light-through, etc.) AND the remote came in silver. Who at Sony thought that I would want a silver remote if I bought a black box? Was molding cases for the remote in two different colors too big a challenge for them ... or did it just make it easier for Sony to manage its inventory?
* The box has already told me "no disc" incorrectly a couple of times. Jogging it opened and closed resolved the issue. Either the tray is not designed to align the disc 100% when inserted ... or this is an indication the device is going to have read problems down the road. Time will tell.
Still, IF it is quality, IF it is durable, then it's worth what I paid for it.
UPDATE: September, 2006. After owning one for almost a year ... and buying two more this summer ... I can still recommend this unit. Every once in a great while, it gets confused enough so that I have to unplug it from the wall to "reboot it." It has tracked flawlessly on almost every DVD ... just a freeze here and there on some heavily used Netflix rentals. I do not see any evidence of dual-layer freezing.
UPDATE December, 2007. All three units still working fine and still recommended.
UPDATE March, 2009. No problems! Recommended!!!
NOTE: The "57" does NOT have S-video input; the "50" does. I replaced the remotes with a Sony RM-VL600 'trainable' remote. $20 and well worth it. Check it out.
Digital camera Review: Good product, great service, low price
Summary: 5 Stars
My old cheap dvd player froze up, so I tried to get this model at a Best Buy. They were less than helpful.
This dvd player was easy to use (Quick Setup), there were no sales taxes or shipping costs and the price was comparable to Best Buy with no hassle. Delivery was in 3 days of my order. And best of all, this player wasn't made in China. Apparently Sony (and Sharp) still carry some quality items. I had researched this online also.
Digital camera Review: Good stop-gap until blu-ray comes down
Summary: 4 Stars
I got this player when my panasonic spindle motor died (new motor $35, and I'd have to install it versus new player for $50). Does everything it is suppose to do, but you have to use the remote to bounce around cd tracks. I haven't tried the jpeg feature yet. It is odd that it does not have an optical digital hook up, but the coax digital works fine (cable not included).
So for $50 this is a good stop gap with many features until Blu-ray players reach a reasonable price.