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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!

I bought the unit approximately 18 months ago and it suddenly will not recognize any discs placed in the carousel (spins but reads 'No Disc', whether brand new or previously used, or CDs or DVDs. Although I have yet to contact Sony about possible fixes for the machine, comments by other purchasers have not been encouraging. It is likely my next DVD player will not be a Sony.

The player completely powers off during cd play. It's completely random, meaning it could play through a cd perfectly fine, and then the next time, shut off halfway through the cd. Theses cds are new and not scratched. Also, DVDs skip, even when no scratches exist. As other opinions state, I too have had good luck with Sony in the past which is why I purchased this model. I will probably have to toss this player(it would be immoral to sell it to someone else) and buy another non-Sony product.

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.

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.