Sony DVP-NS930V Black

[NeilMcRae]

Looking for the best price on a Sony DVP-NS930N in black with multiregion enabled. Anyone recommend anywhere?

Neil.

[Dutch]

Hi Neil,

AVLand seem to have a good reputation on these forums and they have the 930 in black and MR capable. See here:

http://www.avland.co.uk/sony/dvpns930/index.htm

Steve

[Gizmo 76]

I've had no problems with 'Techtronics', got mine in 5 days, you might want to phone and check stock levels though as it stated as LOW.

Techtronics.com

[TopMeTom]

IS the player any good?

Phil

[Gizmo 76]

I would rate yes, compared to my old pioneer 717 that i replace, the pictue quality is GREATLY improved, and it's progressive scan for PAL and NTSC. I think is a not a bad looking machine either.

They are a couple of negative points though, as stated elsewhere on these boards the layer change is not the quickest, no slower than my old 717, but not as fast as other machines, 2 secs tops, "only happens once a movie, were getting far too picky nowadays". Also if you want to play MP3s through the machine there isn't a random option, it'll just play the disc in the order the folders are situated on it.

So for the money i would whole heartedly recommend this machine, if the couple of points i mentioned don't bother that much.

[TopMeTom]

I'll be replacing my 717 too,pity as it's a good machine never had any probs with it

[Gizmo 76]

Originally posted by philb
I'll be replacing my 717 too,pity as it's a good machine never had any probs with it

Yeah it's a great machine, someone offered to buy mine from me, but i couldn't let it go, such a great looking player(champange gold) with a super remote as well. Had a few probs with badly encoded region 1 DVDs, but other than that it's a classic machine.

Like i said before the Sony930 would be a good upgrade

[orioriori]

I ordered a black dvp930 multiregion on thursday from Webelectricals.co.uk as they said they were receiving them on the friday. So hopefully i'll have it tomorow (tuesday) it was £254.99 with free dilivery, a bit more expensive than the cheapest i'd seen but seemed to be the only people who could give me an idea of when they were getting them.

I was gonna go for a black dvp730 at first but avland said sony had no details of when they were going to get them. So in the end I plumped for the 930.

Andrew

[Bristol Pete]

Guys, I am interested in this player too. However, I have a query.

I currently have a Sony DVP735D. Look here -

http://www.homecinemachoice.com/test...DVP-S735.shtml

It is interlaced only and is a cracking machine. I was wondering if the 930 would be a step back PQ and sound wise despite the prog scan addition or has the budget of the 930 caught up with a three year old deck - if that makes sense????

To me, the spec of both machines seems to be very very similar and the 2 second layer change on the 930 is not an issue for me.

Ideally, I would like to spend 1.5k on a high end Toshiba machine but I have not got that kind of cash at the moment......

Any thoughts?

Thanks,

Cap

[NeilMcRae]

Went from 725 to 705 no loss of quality, would expect the same on your upgrade.

Neil.

I have a 735 and a 930 - via component on my Panasonic 6 there is a pretty noticeable difference (advantage 930) on interlaced output - on progressive the 735 is blown away. Audio seems about the same to me. I would definitely try to do a direct comparison before spending more on more expensive players.

[cybersoga]

I have compared my 930 with the Denon 2900 on my screen and I actually prefer the picture from the Sony, although they look exactly the same on the resolution tests on avia. The Sony doesn't have perfect deinterlacing but i'd say it is as good as the Denon. The Denon takes time to switch to 2:2 mode (G on the display), the Sony seems to prefer 2:2 mode and fall back if nessisary. The Denon had a chroma delay -0.7, wheas the sony was closer to 0.

[crazzy kopite]

How does the 930 compare to the 900NV ?

[robbster]

cybersoga

Have you seen any of the toshiba players in action. I have a tosh 510e and wondered if the interlacing mode and picture in general of the sony 930 would be any better than this. I'm looking to upgrade.

cheers

Rob

[cybersoga]

Sorry, i've not seen the tosh - but according to the spec the tosh doesn't do progressive PAL (576p).