Review on Sony DVP-NC80V/B SACD DVD Changer: High-Quality, Black Edition by Eric Longoria

First of all I don't have a TV. That way I could care less about the video or playback quality. What am I worried about? Sound. First, this unit plays audio, whether commercially encoded or mp3, from CD, CD-R/W, DVD+R/W, DVD-R/W, SACD and DVD-A (well, it's a DVD player) . ) Why should you care? Well, you probably have some MP3 gigs from iTunes or something, and you might have ripped some of your commercial audio CDs to MP3. Spring. You might want to burn everything onto a DVD-R. Just drop it into the carousel and all 50 (up to 200 on one disc) albums are available. and they sound AMAZING. In addition, this device outputs either coaxial digital or digital optical. (Save money and use the included RCA A/V cable as a coaxial digital cable.) For the money, no other device can match this player's feature list. Compared to other carousels (Onkyo, Panasonic, .) none of them DECLARE they will play mp3 from DVD and most of them don't even support both recordable DVD formats. device will be the source for my audio system. I can insert 5 MP3 album DVDs. and party all night. Problems: The LCD is difficult to see up close and at acute angles. but step back 6 feet and you can read it just fine, so little potato. The LCD does not show directory/file names during playback on a "track" number. (difficult if you don't print the directory listing on a data DVD/CD). Notes: You can switch discs during playback by clicking Switch. (I wish people looking at stuff should read the manuals before posting.) In data disk mode, JPG files are counted as tracks, so keep that in mind when navigating without video output. I'm only giving it 4 stars because it's still billed as a DVD player. Sony (or anyone else) should be smart and just make something like a media player. that should be a video source and an audio source. and give decent hardware LCD output. The last thing I want is a huge, energy-efficient TV that has to be turned on to play the audio files on the disc.