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I have recently purchased a Sony Bravia 40" LCD high definition 1080p TV for my bedroom from Amazon through a promotional pricing offer, intended to get me to sign up for an Amazon Credit Card. Nice deal. 1ooo bucks for the TV, 3 Interest Free months of low monthly payments. No problems there. So, I thought the next item I would purchase is the Sony 5-disk 1080p DVD player from Amazon. Read all the Amazon customer reviews, some positive, some not so positive. Price was pretty good, so I bought one. This Sony DVD player is supposed to be compatible with the Sony Bravia TV's. It is not. I made the simple connection via a HDMI cable from the TV to the DVD player, and according to the Instruction booklet, that should do it. I set the TV input to HDMI 1 input, which is the HDMI input I first tried (I eventually tried all three HDMI TV inputs individually). I get a signal to the TV, but Picture is very poor quality (unwatchable). I checked the TV Instructions booklet, and there are no additional steps to making this work. I previously had an LG HDMI upscaling DVD player that upscales standard DVD's to 1080i (1080i DVD player and 1080p TV), and the picture quality was fantastic. Not True HD, but damn close. Upscaling DVD players are a great choice for people who have a large collection of non-HD DVD's, and don't want to spend the money to replace their Library of DVD's to get high quality Picture from their collection. I know that this DVD player should work correctly, but for some reason, it will not sync with the same name brand TV. I will hafta contact the manufacturer, and see if there are additional steps I need to perform in getting these two items to correctly play my DVD's. Since I feel that this DVD player should work correctly out-of-the-box as the instructions indicate, I give this product a very low rating for not being easily compatible with their own brand TV.

Product is defective but don't know how to return it cause I dont have the label anymore. I am so dissappointed with this purchase.

The DVD is ok but does not allow to play Mexican DVDs, even when they are not copyrighted to begin with.

I called Sony support and they said that all their DVD have region restriction enforced. They indicated that there are 6 regions in the world, and if I need to play DVDs from any of them, I need to buy Sony DVD player for each one of them.

It is sad to see Sony restricting what DVDs I can play in the USA. They are like BIG BROTHER. They are forgetting that they are in the DVD Player business, and this is non-sense.