Great sound for your buck
Written: May 05 '01
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Pros: Pretty easy to use.
Cons: none
The Bottom Line: Great DVD
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| dirtbikekid's Full Review: Sony DVP-S9000 ES DVD Player |
I have now had the DVP9000 ES for a week, and there are two things that must be said. First, often when purchasing a product, the initial excitement is later replaced for some reason or another, with buyer remorse. This is NOT the case with the DVPS9000 ES. Not at all, in fact with every day that I have used it, some new musical nuance, or some video highlight seems to appear, reinvigorating my excitement about this player.
This player will cause one problem, it will cause you to lose sleep. If you love music, it will absolutely keep you up at night when you know you should be in bed. I have been exhausted due to a busy schedule, but I have been unable to break the hold of this player. As I listened to the SACD of McLaughlin, DiMeola, and Delucia last night, I kept thinking "I need to get some sleep!", but couldn't break away.
Mark my words, if you buy this player, you will understand. This is not hyperbole, this is my dilemma. So to all the sleep deprived, you have been forewarned!A final comment, after writing this review I came across a nice review that is worth reading. I agree with the author, for $1500, this is the best player on the market! Most people in the United States still own NTSC-standard color TV's, which have a resolution that's about equal to 480-interlaced.
With an interlaced video feed, each 1/30th-of-second frame is divided into two 1/60th-of-second fields, the first containing the odd-numbered lines of the frame (that would be 240 lines in the case of a 480i signal, such as the signal from a regular, interlaced-output DVD player) and the second containing the even-numbered lines (again, 240 lines in the case of a 480i signal). The persistence of vision phenomenon, created by your eye and brain, make the two fields appear as a single frame.
With a 480-progressive (480p) signal, all the lines of the frame are projected once each 1/60th of a second, meaning the picture has twice the resolution quality of a 480i signal (in scanning frequency terms, the 480i signal is at 15kHz and the 480p signal is at 31.5kHz).
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Amount Paid (US$): 1,499
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