It’s like watching a video... on a disk!!! (Sony DVP NS300)

Member Name: Nemesis_252

Product:	Sony DVP NS300
Date:	17/06/02 (667 review reads)
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Advantages: Excellent Sound Quality, Excellent Picture Quality, Dolby Digital 5.1 Decoder

Disadvantages: None

Well, where to begin? I’ve been the happy owner of this machine since December 2001, and given that it is still on the market, SONY must be doing something right.

I’m not like most people when it comes to purchasing such an item, it took me nearly three weeks of trawling round shops, reading magazines and searching the Web. You see, I knew how much I wanted to spend, and this left me with a choice of well over fifty different makes and models.

The Toshiba SD210E is the machine that was winning awards left right and centre at the time, and I did seriously consider this as my new player. However, it seemed that no matter which specialist shop I went into, and no matter who I spoke to, they all recommended the SONY DVP-NS300 above the Toshiba SD210E. I guess they were right too, because six months down the line and the SD210E is nowhere to be seen, and has not been replaced. Whereas the SONY is still at the forefront of the (Cheap) DVD player market.

As far as features go it is very well equipped. With an RGB output as one of the two scart sockets, DTS, a DD 5.1 Decoder and an S-Video output too, it is one of the healthier machines in its class. Doubled with the many picture and sound configurations possible, there truly is a lot to play with.

Don’t panic however, if you’re a bit of a technophobe. Although it has a lot of high tech bumph, it doesn’t force any of it on you, and is easy enough to use that even my father has no bother operating it.

The sound and picture quality are both excellent, and it is very easy to install.

The only thing it is missing that its competitors have is a zoom function, but you have to how often you’d to use that, and also consider they’re usually very poor quality anyway.

All in all, this is by far the best player in this price range, and matches the sound and picture quality available on much more expensive units.

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