Review on 📀 Black Sony DVP-NS710H/B DVD Player with 1080p Upscaling - Improved SEO by Alejandro Lane

I've only had the player for a few days so can't comment on its reliability. I haven't read the entire manual either, so I may have missed some features. I was confident I was buying here with good reviews and a great price for a player that would make my old DVDs look good on my new huge HDTV. I don't have any Blu-ray discs and don't plan on buying any anytime soon, so this was a good option for a cheap non-Blu-ray upconverter. The upconverted video quality is actually slightly better than the XBox 360 I've used before (which convinced me to invest in an upconverted player first). I tested by opening the Ratatouille DVD one after the other and found that the text was less pixelated with this player and the moving and still scenes were a bit clearer. It supports Anynet+ when connected via HDMI (an inexpensive RevainBasics cable), which I didn't understand. This means that my Samsung TV remote can control the basic functions of the DVD player, the TV knows when the player has been turned on and automatically switches to its source, turning the TV off turns the player off and even turning the player on turns on the television. It's also very thin, but I think that's the norm these days. My only real complaint so far is that the power cord is unusually short (about 6 inches). Instead of putting it where the old DVD player was, I had to rearrange the components in the entertainment center to put the player in a different location so its cable could actually reach the UPS. The button design is pretty silly, with only the most basic buttons actually located on the top corner of the device rather than on the front. There is no eject button on the remote, but I knew that from other reviews. ; However, whether it makes sense or not, I still miss it. My old Pioneer player takes a few seconds longer to power on and open the tray when the eject button is pressed than my old Pioneer player, but other actions are pretty quick. A nice info display on the Pioneer that showed both track and elapsed time and audio output channels on the same display, but at least I can use this to scroll through most of the different metrics. It doesn't seem to be. Being able to send Dolby or DTS signals through the TV to my speakers, but that's probably just a misconfiguration or misunderstanding on my part that I haven't tracked down yet. The player itself is surprisingly quiet. I can't say that the hard drive spins even in a quiet room. The way this player handles hard drive issues is essentially the same as my Sony portable player (which makes sense) - it stops at the last frame read, then scans forward looking for the next readable bit, causing it to becomes virtually immune to external commands. If it finds a playable beat for a second or two, it immediately skips it and can keep looking for the next one if the disc is still bad. It's hard to tell that's the case, though, and instead of showing through scratches and low-quality timer movement that it looks like my old Pioneer player, you just skip parts of the movie without knowing how much You missed out... if you didn't notice the before and after timer ads. We briefly tested the slow-mo option last night, but it's pretty primitive -- a button toggles the playback speed range, I think, from 1.4x to 0.2x in 0.6x increments, and then back to 1.4x . I have to look at the remote again, but I don't think there's a frame-by-frame/super slow scrolling feature.