Sony DVP-NC600 5-Disc Carousel Changer
By: Sony Average Rating: 3.0 Total Reviews: 24
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 On: 2007-01-10
Ive had this player for four years and havent had any problems with it. Im about to upgrade my TV to an HD unit, and, though this DVD player has no HDMI jack, it does have component video jacks that will work.
I dont think Id buy this today, since HD formats are starting to come out, but its been a good player for general use. How nice is it to have one box for CDs and DVDs?
 On: 2006-06-07
Well I will start with the positive. I purchased this unit the last part of May of 2002. and until this last week (06-05-06) It has been a VERY good and reliable product. The unit has more features than the average person will use and WAS very reliable for anything I used it for. I began getting a no disc error or insert disc message and thought ok nothing big needs the lens cleaned. Well I bought a 10.00 Maxell DVD Lense cleaner last night at wal-mart and it would even read that. I called Circuit City (store of purchase) Guess what out of warranty but call Sony. Called Sony "We have an exchange for that item of 141.00. I didnt pay that much for it newhat the heck...I am very upset with Sony and there quality of workmanship/products. As far as I am concerned I will not be purchasing or recommending their products for anyone.
Sincerly
-Electronics Technician/Sales
On: 2005-03-27
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.
 On: 2005-02-17
The player completely powers off during cd play. Its 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.
On: 2004-08-21
This was received as a gift two years ago. The remote stopped working just after the one year warranty ran out. The other day the entire unit stopped working. The laser stopped reading discs suddenly and would then read "No Disc." Sony has been no help. Ive now been lied to by three people. I was told that you can either pay $141.70 and send it back for who knows how long and incur possibly more repair fees or for the same price get a like new unit of the same or better model and dont have to send the broken one in. After waiting the 7-10 days with no receipt of a new unit I called and was told the same thing as the first service person and to give it a few more days. Then today I got the same lies. This person told me they couldnt tell if it had shipped but just to wait. I told them to put me through to shipping where I was told that what I had been told earlier was not correct. I would, in fact, to send the unit it and it would take 10-15 days once they received it to ship the "new" one. I filed a complaint with that person and expressed my extreme displeasure. They did nothing to help. Needless to say, we are not sending the unit in and will spend our money on a product other than Sony.
On: 2004-08-20
This was received as a gift two years ago. The remote stopped working just after the one year warranty ran out. The other day the entire unit stopped working. The laser stopped reading discs suddenly and would then read "No Disc." Sony has been no help. Ive now been lied to by three people. I was told that you can either pay $141.70 and send it back for who knows how long and incur possibly more repair fees or for the same price get a like new unit of the same or better model and dont have to send the broken one in. After waiting the 7-10 days with no receipt of a new unit I called and was told the same thing as the first service person and to give it a few more days. Then today I got the same lies. This person told me they couldnt tell if it had shipped but just to wait. I told them to put me through to shipping where I was told that what I had been told earlier was not correct. I would, in fact, to send the unit it and it would take 10-15 days once they received it to ship the "new" one. I filed a complaint with that person and expressed my extreme displeasure. They did nothing to help. Needless to say, we are not sending the unit in and will spend our money on a product other than Sony.
by: Anonymous On: 2003-12-24
There is nothing worse than a product that starts failing just after the 1 year warranty period. Problem is skipping and stopping in the middle of CDs and DVDs. I started happening only occasionally and I thought it might be dirty disks - but soon realized that it occured on new disks and worse - it starts happening more and more frequently. From all the other reviews I see that I am not alone and this must be a reliablity problem with at least this Sony DVD player. At this point, I am checking to see if there is anything I can do to fix this thing cheaply but most likely this 1 1/2 year old DVD player is heading to the dump.
by: Anonymous On: 2003-11-21
The disk changer drawer struggles to open and close. When it does open, and I insert a disk and close the drawer, it just spins the table and then opens the drawer again. There are no error messages displayed on the screen, and there are no loose disks stuck in the machine. I searched the net for any clues to this problem, and found nothing other than a tech bulletin referring to some "recall" corrections. The Sony Web site was useless. Purchased in May, 2002, and it is not a "high use" system. Enjoyed it until now, but I expect better reliability of this equip.
On: 2003-10-16
I would have given this review 0 stars if that rating had been available. I purchased this model to replace a 5 year old Sony cd changer. When I was looking for dvd players, I was hellbent on buying a sony because of the flawless performance my old changer had given me. I quickly found out that Sonys quality has apparently taken a severe backslide. As other reviewers have mentioned, my changer would power down after 1-20 minutes of playing music cds. This progressively got worse, extending to the dvd functions. The last straw was when it shut down twice during 1 movie. The DVD function was horrible, in the 16 months I owned it, I was not able to watch a single rented movie on it without it getting hung up. If you think you might want to purchase this DVD/CD changer, find a hammer, hit yourself on the head, then run the other direction!!! I am currently searching for a new DVD player & I assure you it will NOT be a Sony!
On: 2003-10-14
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 DVDs to just keep up - often freezing the video out while the drive churns through the disk to retrieve the data. This isnt 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.
by: Anonymous On: 2003-03-17
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.
On: 2002-12-07
This DVD player is phenomenal. I have had mine for about 2 years now, and boy, its been through heckfire and back. It doubles as my CD player and it is always running. Ive had it up at school for the past few months and most of last year and my buddies are always messing around with it. The picture is crystal clear and the sound is great. Its loaded will all kinds of cool features that you probably never even knew existed. Anyway, this thing is durable. Dont know what you plan on doing with yours, but mine has fallen off the shelf several times and is constantly getting beer spilled on it by the jokers that frequent my house. The DVD player never seems to mind though. It always does what I ask and never gives me problems. Probably the coolest thing about this DVD player is the lights on the buttons for the disk numbers. The light will be green if theres a disk loaded in that spot and red if there isnt one. It is awesome. You never need to mess around with finding out which slot to put your next disc into. Plus, this is a Sony. How can you go wrong? Mine has lasted me this long and we constantly abuse it. Just think how long it will last if you take care of it! I promise you wont be disappointed with this thing!
by: Anonymous On: 2002-06-13
pros: sony quality, supposed to be the best at playing damaged discs, instant replay featurecons: no zoom button, doesnt play mp3s, [bad]remote
On: 2002-05-21
Pros: quiet operarion;... Cons: remote controller should have disk switch button for each disks. I am using the Audio Digital output (optical) to feed in A/V Receiver. The sound problem reported by other users is NOT a problem here.
On: 2002-05-21
bought it two month ago.I tested it with all kinds of media: DVD, CD, VCD, and CD-R and have NO problems at all--no freezing/skipping.... Some of them have problems with my other DVD player and Xbox. There is a new feature with this unit called "precision drive II" which is designated to tolerate imperfect disks. Plus there is BNR to further enhances that feature! In my experience, NO other players at this price range can touch NC600 !! Highly recommed it over Panasonic, Toshiba which, according to lots of online reviews, seem to have some *design flaws* instead of random quality issues.
On: 2002-05-19
I have been doing some online research for a solid/reliable DVD player under [a certain amount] for a while. Models I have been looking include some very popular ones like Panasonic RV32K (or RV22K sold at [local retailer]), Toshiba 2710 and others, and SONY NS315B/NC600. For Panasonic, lots of complaints about that H02 error code which seems to me a definately bug with their decoding system. For Toshiba, I also saw lots of quality complaints, like skipping, freezing, looping, etc. The problems are fairly consistant and similar. For SONY, there are also some complaints, BUT they look like random quality problems instead of design flaws. Features from NC600 that I give thumb-up are:
1. precision drive 2 system which can read some imprefect disks (at least according to SONY);
2. 5-Disk changer--since I listen to a lot of music CDs. Also lots of DVDs have 2-disk versions in now days.
3. fairly quiet operation. (Ive been running on my Xbox for my DVD/CD for a while and man they are noisy!). I have a DVD (Snow White from Disney, new) which freezes in Ch.25 occasionally with my other DVD player, but runs fine with SONY. My Xbox skips (track 18 and after) on my CD -- "GH of America" but runs fine on SONY as well. I only got this player recently, 5/02, from [local retailer] for [dollar amount], not a bad deal, therefore I dont how reliable it will be. Judging from my other SONY products: TV, VCR, cassette player, it should be another good performer as well. Only puzzle to me is that the model on the Box says "DVP-NC600/B", but on the unit/manual it is "DVP-NC600" with the "/B" part. ...
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above review was written 1 year and 4 month ago. I accidently bumped into this thread again so I feel Id give some update on the DVD player. It has been running flawlessly and Ive trid DVD, CD, CD-R, VCD and some are of really bad quality and all of them worked fine. Id have to say SONY did a good job in product quality control in this case! Bravo SONY!
On: 2002-05-05
...The picture quality and the 5-disc changer are great. However, the sound is pathetic. I own a quality 54" big screen with great speakers, but I have to turn the volume up full blast just to hear CD music or the voice dialogue from a DVD. What a disappointment. It may work better with a 5.1 receiver, but I dont think I will keep it long enough to find out.
by: Anonymous On: 2002-01-27
I purchased this DVD player, my first DVD player, because I was told it was really good and had been happy with my other Sony products. Boy was I disappointed. The picture quality was good, the sound was terrible and 7 months after I purchased it the carousel stopped working. I would put in a DVD and the machine would not register it was there. When I picked up the machine I could hear parts moving around in it. The sound was so terrible I would have to turn the volumn all the way up on my Sony TV just to barely hear the movie. When I called Sony about it they told me I would have to pay for all repairs. I traded it in for a less expensive single disk Sony DVD player. My new one works much better. Sony makes some good products. This one, however, was a bust.
On: 2002-01-19
This is an excellent product. I enjoyed using this DVD/CD player at home listening to music and watching movies. The 5.1 sound output is just clear and crisp. The only "drawback" if I may say so is that it comes with a not as good remote control where the buttons are somewhat hard to distinguish. Overall it is worth its price!
On: 2002-01-18
The unit I bought began freezing and pausing during DVD and skipping during CD play after the 30 day trial period. I sent it back to Sony repair center and they tagged a different problem (jittery picture) which they claimed they fixed. When I got the unit back, the original problem was still there along with a new problem, jittery picture. While I await its repairs once more, I have read several other reviews from Sound and Vision readers and Audio Review to see that my problem is not unique. Others have reported the same problems. There is some serious defects or flaws in this unit making me wish I never bought it. That said, I do like all the features if I can just get a unit that doesnt fail.
On: 2002-01-04
I recently had to replace an older DVD player and found that this one has all the features I could want. This model does not have all of the fancy Pro-Logic effects that many models now have, but as long as you have a newer reciever, those options should already be available. No need to pay for something you dont need.
 On: 2001-12-18
Granted, I am not an audiophile, but I did alot of research before building my first modern era home entertainment system. I eneded up with a Sony receiver and this Sony DVD player. I already had a Sony TV that I practically stole, so I kept i all Sony. Never having a DVD player before in my life, it was very easy to use. It has never skipped, plays music and video very well. The picture is crystal clear, when used with the S-video. The only thing I didnt like about it and most other players, is that, I dont like paying extra for the CDR and CDRW play back. I format all my music to work in any CD player. Its very simple to do on any modern computer. I also didnt like paying for Pro Logic and DTS decoding, when i allready have that in the Receiver. But its nice to have it, if you are going to just spend less on a receiver/amp without the decoders.
by: Anonymous On: 2001-12-16
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!
On: 2001-12-13
Im enthusiastic enough about this product to give it five stars, but I havent really explored all of its functionality, so I held back. I have used the unit thoroughly for DVD and CD playback, and am completely satisfied, but Im not enhanced sound enabled, so I cant really review the player as it relates to surround or Dolby use. It does sound great on my archaic two speaker/tuner system. The unit was very easy to set up. Up and running in minutes, with a very intuitive interface. No real learning curve to overcome for basic playback use. Playback of DVD offers crisp picture and sound with no skipping, or frame loss. CD playback is great as well. Several great simulated surround audio options that sound pretty groovy, even without an actual hookup to a surround system. Remote is functional, but not overly-impressive. Allows for you to program it for use with one other device, presumably your television or sound system. Control functions for the secondary device are pretty limited. Power and volume, basically. I do wish the fast scan function offered more speeds, but you can still blow pretty rapidly back and forth through segments you wish to skip. Remote does have a great feature that allows you to skip forward or back to the next scene marker on the disc. Other units Im familiar with only have buttons for this function on the unit itself, and not on the remote. The price point is a little higher than some other 5 disc changers Ive seen on the market. However, Ive had some bad experiences with lower priced units. I would say that the $50 - $60 extra bucks you might pay for this player will more than pay for itself in reliable, enjoyable use. If youre looking for an affordable unit for general use, Id say buy with confidence.
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