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Sony BDP-CX960 400 Disc Blu-ray Disc / DVD MegaChanger (Black) | 
| Brand: Sony
Category: CE
List Price: $799.99 (879.99CAD)
Buy New: $544.66 (599.13CAD)
as of 9/5/2010 00:17 PDT details
You Save: $255.33 (280.86CAD) (32%)
New (19) Used (3) from $504.21 (554.63CAD)
Seller: WorldWide Distributors
Rating:  56 reviews
Sales Rank: 5439
Color: Black
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: Yes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 29.9
Dimensions (in): 21.1 x 17 x 9.5
MPN: BDP-CX960
Model: BDP-CX960
UPC: 027242754836
EAN: 0027242754836
ASIN: B002M78J70
Release Date: October 6, 2009
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Organize and play 400 Blu-ray Disc movies, DVDs, & CDs | | • | Experience Full HD 1080p/24p video output | | • | Quickly load rented movies through the rental slot | | • | Converts DVD video to near HD quality via HDMI | | • | Dolby TrueHD and dts-HD decoding/bitstream output |
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Product Description
400 Disc Blu-ray/DVD/CD
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| Customer Reviews:
Showing reviews 1-5 of 56
 Good Unit But With a Few Drawbacks August 13, 2010
J. Bright (Vancouver, Canada)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The unit plays all DVDs very well with great picture and sound. The problems im my mind are with the firmware design and I have spent some time with Sony tech support on the phone on all of the following and they have no work arounds to suggest.
1: The first problem is if you have any of your DVDs that are not store bought movies. If you recorded any movies or sports events etc off your TV for example or take your own videos and burned them to a DVD the unit will recognize them as "DVD + or -" even if it is a dual layer. Gracenote will list it as an unknown DVD and it won't be classified as "DVD Video", you will see "DVD + or -." You can understand that Gracenote would not recognize these but this creates the problem that you have to manually key in the DVD information. Not a problem if you have a few but I have over 100. It gets worse. A beautiful feature of this set up is to group your DVD collection by genre, cast, year of release etc. However when you use options/edit to add the DVD information to a "DVD + or -" it only allows you to rename the title. It does not give you the option to edit any other catelogue information. So you put in the title and that is it. Now I have a group of 145 listed as "unknown genre" So much for grouping by genre. Contrast that to a "DVD Video" simply recognized incorrectly by Gracenote. It happens sometimes, although Gracenote is pretty accurate for the most part. As long the DVD is recognized as a "DVD Video" as opposed to a "DVD + or -", with same procedure you have the option to edit all the fields including title, genre, cast etc. I hope Sony addresses this in a firware update.
2: Beware about Gracenote lurking in the background if you haven't turned it off in the settings after cateloguing your DVDs. Whenever you play a DVD it loads and updates the information from Gracenote. Think about all the editing described in point one above. If you have taken time to manually enter the information and the DVD gets loaded all that information gets wiped out, replaced by what Gracenote had and you are back to square one. In my case an unknown DVD + or - with now no title again.
3: If you remove a DVD from the unit for any reason even if you put it back in the same slot, all the catelogue information is lost.
4: If you can now relate to a lot of manual editing like I have, think about how tedious it is having to use a remote without the functionalty of plugging in a keyboard like earlier pre Blu-ray models had.
5: This I find hugely annoying. If you open the door of the unit for any reason, upon closing it automatically loads a DVD you may have had selected previously but probably don't want now. You cannot stop it and have to wait for the very slow loading process. Some DVDs even prohibit using the stop button until you finally get to the main menu. This will take a full minute or two while you likely express a few expletives probably because you wanted to select the DVD you just loaded or at the very least didn't want the previous one loaded again. At least they should have a user setting in the set up menu to turn this "Autoload on Door Close" feature on or off. I am very used to the Sony CD changers and when you put in a new CD and close the door it does not load anything. It waits for you to select what you want. With this you need to really pay attention to what DVD it will automatically load for you. The rental slot feature works well but that is not the only time you open the doors to the unit.
I have looked for 3rd party software to possibly use so I can at least use a keyboard but cannot find anything. Panther Studios is no longer in busines and I don't know if their Movie software would work with these newer Blu-ray units anyway.
Overall this is an excellent unit but with some flaws in the firmware that are particularly hard on those of us with a number of DVD + or -'s in our collections. I really hope Sony does a firmware update to address these issues. If they do I will be back extolling the virtues of a great company who takes their customer feedback seriously and tries to do something about it.
 FANTASTIC August 2, 2010
HIM (Batesville, AR... USA)
Adding ths to my sony 300 disk dvd player...it's blu ray for me from now on...watched tombstone and was blown away by the video and audio...get this...no need to get the more expensive one imho.
For so much money, I really expected more July 11, 2010
MW (Miramar, Florida United States)
I've owned the predecessor of this unit, the one that also holds 400 discs but only plays standard DVDs, plus I own the CD version. Despite reading the reviews of how large this thing is, I was still surprised at its size when I set it in my entertainment center. It really is a monster, so measure carefully. This aspect really doesn't bother me, though, because my shelving more than adequately houses it. Here are the two big drawbacks (IMHO) that warrant the three-star rating:
1. I am disappointed that the Sony software does not allow you to search Gracenote, find the title you need, and then apply that title to that specific slot for any backed up copies of movies. While the unit does play them, it simply labels them "No Name." Typing the names in with the remote is tedious, to put it mildly. So tedious, in fact, I've decided to just use an Excel spreadsheet instead of going to all that trouble. I highly advise you write down which discs you are inserting into which slots as you load. You may be sorry otherwise. Is this something you should have to do with such an expensive machine? Why in the world did Sony take away the keyboard hookup it had on the previous model? I've even tried putting the original disc in, which automatically links to Gracenote and uploads the movie data, and then carefully sneaking it out and putting in the back-up copy (not even using the disc eject button), but the data disappears and up pops "No Name" again. For those of us who prefer to keep the original disc in a safe place and only play backup copies,why can't the unit allow the user to do an online Gracenote search for the movie and save that data to the slot? Sony, are you listening?
2. I have several discs of HD family video that are in AVCHD format that the unit will not play. My one-year-old Panasonic BD player plays them beautifully, but this unit is unable to (yes, I have the latest software uploaded). What's the deal with that? It does play some AVCHD discs, but not all. The manufacture date on my machine is February 2010. To have discs that a player a year old can play and this one can't is unacceptable.
The things I do like about it:
1. The Gracenote interface, even with the hideous drawback above, is better than nothing.
2. The fact that it can link to the internet, albeit without wifi, is a definite plus for updating the software and, hopefully, adding future capabilities (like fixing item #1, above). I will probably eventually try to hook it up via the power line through an Ethernet adapter and connect that way, but for now, instead, I bought a short Ethernet cable in black CAT5E, UTP, with Molded Boot, 350MHz, Black, 3 ft, so it won't show, and let it rest by the side of the unit when I don't need it to be connected. I'm glad I got the 3-foot length, by the way, because the unit is so deep, anything shorter would not work very well. I also purchased a coupler Cables to Go 01937 RJ45 8-pin Modular Inline Coupler Straight-Through (Ivory) and a longer, 15-foot cable to reach my router Mediabridge - 15ft (4.5 meter) Red RJ45 Computer Networking Cat5e Ethernet Patch Cable. It's really not that much of a hassle to hook it all up, and it's a solution, at least for now, until I decide to take another approach.
3. One reviewer wrote that the up-converting is almost about as good as Blue-ray, and I tend to agree. The picture produced is really outstanding.
Anyway, generally speaking I like the unit. It's about your only option at this point. Prices seem to be dropping in various sites on the internet, so careful shopping and setting up price-watching should pay off if you decide to take the plunge. I may be wrong, but I fully expect a "better" unit to be on the way, with wifi and (hopefully) with better movie labeling capabilities. I mean, come on, even my tiny WD HD Media Player Western Digital WD TV Live Network-ready HD Media Player WDBAAN0000NBK-NESN allows me to put icons against movie titles. I remain hopeful that new software updates will improve this model, though. We'll see.
Great Player July 4, 2010
Gerhard Gareis (NY)
Very impressed with this player and have had no problems with it. It's a awesome way to organize your dvd/blueray collection. It is a big player so make sure you have enough room to place it.
Pretty Good Product June 25, 2010
R. N. Frank (Taylorsville, CA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I was a little disappointed when I found that you had to connect the CX960 to the internet to catalog the discs. It would seem logical that Title info could be obtained from the disc itself. That said, I have been connecting the player to the net when I load a set of discs. It connects to the Gracenote DB, loads the info when available (about 80% of my discs have Gracenote data), then I disconnect the ethernet wire. The player retains the data w/o the connection. Everything else about the system works as expected. The disk catalog works well and load times are reasonable. Video and sound quality have no apparent deficiencies.
After RTFM, it appears that disks w/o Gracenote data may be edited. I have not pursued this yet. Disks w/o data just show up as "Disk # _ " and "title unknown". I would suggest taking notes on disks loaded and disk # when you add sets of disks. This would facilitate cataloging if Gracenote data is not available. Oh - another issue... this system is NOT ideal for double sided disks as it only recognizes 1 side. Not so bad if the disk is 4:3 on side A and widescreen on B, but when content is on both sides of the disk, you will only get Side A. I have NOT been loading disks into the carousel, with content on both sides. The system has a Single Load capability into slot 1 for rental disks and special needs.
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