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Summary: Poor sound!
Review: ...The picture quality and the 5-disc changer are great. However, the sound is pathetic. I own a quality 54" big screen with great speakers, but I have to turn the volume up full blast just to hear CD music or the voice dialogue from a DVD. What a disappointment. It may work better with a 5.1 receiver, but I don't think I will keep it long enough to find out.
Rating: 
Summary: Excellent performer for the price ...
Review: bought it two month ago.I tested it with all kinds of media: DVD, CD, VCD, and CD-R and have NO problems at all--no freezing/skipping.... Some of them have problems with my other DVD player and Xbox. There is a new feature with this unit called "precision drive II" which is designated to tolerate imperfect disks. Plus there is BNR to further enhances that feature! In my experience, NO other players at this price range can touch NC600 !! Highly recommed it over Panasonic, Toshiba which, according to lots of online reviews, seem to have some *design flaws* instead of random quality issues.
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Summary: Great Price, Great DVD Player
Review: For the price I purchased a lot. This player has everything I needed. The 5 disk changer is great for house parties. I did a lot of research and found all the features to be excelllent and the price is not bad either. Sony does it again!
Rating: 
Summary: Simple to use
Review: Granted, I am not an audiophile, but I did alot of research before building my first modern era home entertainment system. I eneded up with a Sony receiver and this Sony DVD player. I already had a Sony TV that I practically stole, so I kept i all Sony. Never having a DVD player before in my life, it was very easy to use. It has never skipped, plays music and video very well. The picture is crystal clear, when used with the S-video. The only thing I didnt like about it and most other players, is that, I dont like paying extra for the CDR and CDRW play back. I format all my music to work in any CD player. Its very simple to do on any modern computer. I also didnt like paying for Pro Logic and DTS decoding, when i allready have that in the Receiver. But its nice to have it, if you are going to just spend less on a receiver/amp without the decoders.
Rating:
Summary: Good for a Year, then bad
Review: I got the Sony DVP NC600 as a home theater system for Christmas in 2001. It was great and very easy to hook up. It worked great. However, after a year the CD player will play a music CD for about 30 mins and the whole system will then just power off by itself. The warranty expired, and now Sony wants me to pay a min of [$$$] to fix. Unbelieveable! Would I purchase another Sony CD player, probably not for a long time.
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Summary: A good performer ... (updated review)
Review: I have been doing some online research for a solid/reliable DVD player under [a certain amount] for a while. Models I have been looking include some very popular ones like Panasonic RV32K (or RV22K sold at [local retailer]), Toshiba 2710 and others, and SONY NS315B/NC600. For Panasonic, lots of complaints about that 'H02' error code which seems to me a definately bug with their decoding system. For Toshiba, I also saw lots of quality complaints, like skipping, freezing, looping, etc. The problems are fairly consistant and similar. For SONY, there are also some complaints, BUT they look like random quality problems instead of design flaws. Features from NC600 that I give thumb-up are:
1. 'precision drive 2 system' which can read some imprefect disks (at least according to SONY);
2. 5-Disk changer--since I listen to a lot of music CD's. Also lots of DVDs have 2-disk versions in now days.
3. fairly quiet operation. (I've been running on my Xbox for my DVD/CD for a while and man they are noisy!). I have a DVD ('Snow White' from Disney, new) which freezes in Ch.25 occasionally with my other DVD player, but runs fine with SONY. My Xbox skips (track 18 and after) on my CD -- "GH of America" but runs fine on SONY as well. I only got this player recently, 5/02, from [local retailer] for [dollar amount], not a bad deal, therefore I don't how reliable it will be. Judging from my other SONY products: TV, VCR, cassette player, it should be another good performer as well. Only puzzle to me is that the model on the Box says "DVP-NC600/B", but on the unit/manual it is "DVP-NC600" with the "/B" part. ...
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above review was written 1 year and 4 month ago. I accidently bumped into this thread again so I feel I'd give some update on the DVD player. It has been running flawlessly and I've trid DVD, CD, CD-R, VCD and some are of really bad quality and all of them worked fine. I'd have to say SONY did a good job in product quality control in this case! Bravo SONY!
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Summary: Turns into a bust
Review: I purchased this DVD player, my first DVD player, because I was told it was really good and had been happy with my other Sony products. Boy was I disappointed. The picture quality was good, the sound was terrible and 7 months after I purchased it the carousel stopped working. I would put in a DVD and the machine would not register it was there. When I picked up the machine I could hear parts moving around in it. The sound was so terrible I would have to turn the volumn all the way up on my Sony TV just to barely hear the movie. When I called Sony about it they told me I would have to pay for all repairs. I traded it in for a less expensive single disk Sony DVD player. My new one works much better. Sony makes some good products. This one, however, was a bust.
Rating: 
Summary: Frustrated
Review: I received the DVP-NC600 as a gift for Xmas 2001 from my wife. I had a Sony 5-disk CD hanger that I bought in 1994 that worked like a champ (I gave it to my folks), so I was initially excited about the gift. It almost immediately started with problems, mainly on 'track shuffle' it would shut itself OFF after about 20 minutes of play. Now it will shut off periodically when just playing a single CD. It also struggles with some DVD's to just keep up - often 'freezing' the video out while the drive churns through the disk to retrieve the data. This isn't just with rental disks - it happens with new disks as well. Sony customer service told me to "unplug it for 1 minute" to reset the memory, and a factory service under warranty did not resolve the issue. As a loyal Sony customer (I have a STR-D560Z receiver), I am more than disapointed in how things turned out. As an design engineer, the "unplug it" advise was a joke - the product obviously has a bug.
Rating:
Summary: Frustrated
Review: I received the DVP-NC600 as a gift for Xmas 2001 from my wife. I had a Sony 5-disk CD hanger that I bought in 1994 that worked like a champ (I gave it to my folks), so I was initially excited about the gift. It almost immediately started with problems, mainly on 'track shuffle' it would shut itself OFF after about 20 minutes of play. Now it will shut off periodically when just playing a single CD. It also struggles with some DVD's to just keep up - often 'freezing' the video out while the drive churns through the disk to retrieve the data. This isn't just with rental disks - it happens with new disks as well. Sony customer service told me to "unplug it for 1 minute" to reset the memory, and a factory service under warranty did not resolve the issue. As a loyal Sony customer (I have a STR-D560Z receiver), I am more than disapointed in how things turned out. As an design engineer, the "unplug it" advise was a joke - the product obviously has a bug.
Rating:
Summary: Five Stars--One Per Disc
Review: I recently had to replace an older DVD player and found that this one has all the features I could want. This model does not have all of the fancy Pro-Logic effects that many models now have, but as long as you have a newer reciever, those options should already be available. No need to pay for something you don't need.
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