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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.

Pros: quiet operarion;...

Cons: remote controller should have disk switch button for each disks.

I am using the Audio Digital output (optical) to feed in A/V Receiver. The sound problem reported by other users is NOT a problem here.

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!

This was received as a gift two years ago. The remote stopped working just after the one year warranty ran out. The other day the entire unit stopped working. The laser stopped reading discs suddenly and would then read "No Disc." Sony has been no help. I've now been lied to by three people. I was told that you can either pay $141.70 and send it back for who knows how long and incur possibly more repair fees or for the same price get a like new unit of the same or better model and don't have to send the broken one in. After waiting the 7-10 days with no receipt of a new unit I called and was told the same thing as the first service person and to give it a few more days. Then today I got the same lies. This person told me they couldn't tell if it had shipped but just to wait. I told them to put me through to shipping where I was told that what I had been told earlier was not correct. I would, in fact, to send the unit it and it would take 10-15 days once they received it to ship the "new" one. I filed a complaint with that person and expressed my extreme displeasure. They did nothing to help. Needless to say, we are not sending the unit in and will spend our money on a product other than Sony.

There is nothing worse than a product that starts failing just after the 1 year warranty period. Problem is skipping and stopping in the middle of CD's and DVD's. I started happening only occasionally and I thought it might be dirty disks - but soon realized that it occured on new disks and worse - it starts happening more and more frequently. From all the other reviews I see that I am not alone and this must be a reliablity problem with at least this Sony DVD player. At this point, I am checking to see if there is anything I can do to fix this thing cheaply but most likely this 1 1/2 year old DVD player is heading to the dump.