Contrary to what others have said, my experience with this DVD mega-changer has been excelent.

I think some of the problems mentioned stem from the user not understanding how the machine works. For example, a person in one of the previous reviews said,

"It also likes to drop the one you had in the easy slot (the 'plus one' slot) into other available slots, and I have to go looking for it"

This only happens if you turn the player off physically at the machine (also, if there is a power failure during,say, a thunder storm) instead of a power down with the remote. Powering down with the remote allows the disk to be removed from the dvd drive and placed back on the carosel.

Picture and sound are excellent on my 53" Sony rear prujection tv.

The only complaint i have is with the disk explorer feature. But then i bought a good number of my dvd's years ago before title info was included on dvd's, anyway.

... but I hate to admit it. Today, I removed all my disks from the player for the 5th time in the year I owned the sony. I had it in the authorized service center 3 times and sony even replaced my unit once and was about to again for the same problem, putting the disks back wherever it felt like instead of where they belong. Not just the EZ play disk, but anything I watched. One of the times I had it repaired, the service guy told me he had 7 other units currently in for the same thing.

Trouble is my unit is hooked up to my whole system and when the movie was over, we turned the whole system off. With all those repairs and replacements no one ever asked how we were turning the unit off! It might have been in the manual -- which I did read, but I don't think I realized the difference between powering off from the remote and via the a/v system. After reading Jeffreys post I tried it a few times and it did put it back correctly when I powered off from the remote and did put it... Read more

I am so aggravated with this machine, I hardly know where to begin.
When I first brought it home, at least it didn't fail mechanically, so I'll start with my initial impressions. The programming of this machine is really amateurish. The disc management software is slow. The device insists on loading a disc when you first turn it on, and there's nothing you can do to stop it. Anytime you make any selection, the carousel spins, seemingly pointlessly, in both directions before finally homing in on the disc you want.
Since I brought this machine home, it has had worsening mechanical problems. It has trouble picking discs up out of the carousel, and trouble putting them back. The machine jams, then turns itself off, and every time it does this, it takes at least five minutes to get it going again.
In summary, this is a badly designed product and is flimsily constructed. I will be wary of buying Sony again.