Are there any 5 disc (or more) dvd players with progressive scan available yet? Thanks in advance!

To me personally, a DVD changer is useless because approximately, how many movies do an average person view within a day? maybe one or two, it's not like listening to music when you can change CD's every few minutes whenever you choose to hear a different artist.
Watching a movie is completely different when an average movie is one hour and a half- 2 or more hours at the most, so a 5 disc changer is a waste, unless you are going to be watching movies 24 hours a day to get any use out of it. but to each it's own.

The only multi-disc progressive scan player I know of is the Sony DVPCX850D 200-Disc changer. You can pick it up for under $500 but I am not sure how good it is. Here are some reviews... http://www.audioreview.com/reviews/D...uct_4932.shtml

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SINGLE104,
As I'm sure somebody else in the forum can attest to, a multi-disc DVD player does have a use. And that use is...
Tada! As a multi-disc CD player. Big shocker, I know. Just imagine someone who doesn't have that 5-disc CD changer, and is looking to get a new DVD player. Well, why get one of each, when you can get a 5-disc DVD changer to kill two stones with one bird.

Anyway, with the recent CES news all over the web, I'm starting to wonder why there aren't that many multi-disc DVD-Audio players. Seems pretty obvious that people who have been used to their old CD changers would want a DVD-Audio player that also is a changer... Ah well, whatever. Who am I to make sense?

SINGLE104, while I don't own one, I have given some thought to buying one of the players with 200 - 500 disc capacity. The key benefits as I see them are: a) I can put my DVD cases in storage to save space; b) I don't have to turn up the lights to find the side with the widescreen or unedited version.

On the downside: if someone steals the dvd player, they also have all of your discs. When I don't know what I want to watch, I usually flip thru the cases to jog my memory. And some dics have the extras on the B side.

I don't know of a 5 disc dvd player, but I'm pretty sure the Toshiba models have two disc trays. I own a 3109 (2 tray model) and I've never watched two movies in a row (without getting up), though I will admit it's nice to be able to switch between two movies whenever I want.

The 200 disc sony model at $500 is actually a pretty good deal if you don't mind a bad interface.

If your'e thinking about using the 5 disc dvd player as your main cd player also, you may consider that 5 disc cd players with digital outputs can be bought for about $100. If the diffrence between a progresive scan dvd player that you like versus a multi disc player is more then this, the seperate cd player may be a much better deal for you.

quote:<HR>Originally posted by El Pollo:
SINGLE104,
As I'm sure somebody else in the forum can attest to, a multi-disc DVD player does have a use. And that use is...
Tada! As a multi-disc CD player. Big shocker, I know. Just imagine someone who doesn't have that 5-disc CD changer, and is looking to get a new DVD player. Well, why get one of each, when you can get a 5-disc DVD changer to kill two stones with one bird.

Anyway, with the recent CES news all over the web, I'm starting to wonder why there aren't that many multi-disc DVD-Audio players. Seems pretty obvious that people who have been used to their old CD changers would want a DVD-Audio player that also is a changer... Ah well, whatever. Who am I to make sense?<HR>

Yes i understand your point of view, but most consumers probably already have CD changers long prior to the DVD counterpart.

Pioneer makes an Elite 5-disc changer with Progressive scan. I don't know the model number.

Here's a link to the Pioneer player. I suspect this is currently the best 5-disc progressive player.

http://www.pioneerelectronics.com/Pi...22,186,00.html .

Hopefully others will come out to 5-disc progressive players.

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I bought a 5-Disc DVD changer just for it's secondary role as a 5-Disc CD Changer. While most people probably already have Cd Changers, many of those people might not have CD changers with A) Digital Outputs and B) as good a DAC as some of those available in DVD changers.

I recently bought a Toshiba 5 DVD changer and love the changer feature. I can go to Hollywood Video and rent up to 5 DVD's, keep them for 5 days, stick them all in the player, and not have to take them out, until I'm ready to return them.

But then again, I'm lazy!

John

It might also be nice to be able to take a component off your stack and lessen your pile of remotes by one.

BTW, I believe there were a few DVD-Audio/Progressive scan changers announced at CES. Read through E-Town's coverage to confirm.

I just received the Feb/March edition of Sound&Vision mag and in their new products they show Harman Kardon is releasing a five disc changer with progresive output, hdcd decoding, and mp3 cd's (plays cd-r and cd-rw). Has all the diff. types of video output and has a backlit remote control and allows you to change four discs while one plays.

It's listed as the DVD 50. For the MSRP of $650, it looks very intresting.

quote:<HR>Originally posted by daledude:
Harman Kardon is releasing a five disc changer with progresive output, hdcd decoding, and mp3 cd's (plays cd-r and cd-rw). Has all the diff. types of video output and has a backlit remote control and allows you to change four discs while one plays.<HR>

But, will it let the cat out?



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manufacturer link, list as available late winter.

www.harmankardon.com/product.asp?cat=DVD&prod=DVD%2050

Would be perfect if it did dvd-audio.

Any updates to this thread? It's been about 6 months since this was tossed around. I am still looking for just that perfect 5 disk carousel/progressive scan DVD player. Now I hear about this difference between line doubler and 3:2 pulldown. What this is I don't know, but I'd assume I'd want the better of the two.

I own the 2200 Toshiba...i love everything but the lack of consistant cd-r support...eh, can't have everything.

The duel disk is perfect for me, disc one always changes, but disk 2 is usually a concert DVD or favorite movie, so i can just turn it one whenever i want.

-pedagogue