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5 Reviews for Sony DVP-NS76H - DVD Player with HDMI and 1080i Upscaling

I bought this "new" from Amazon for £76 - what gives with the crazy price? - 25 Oct 2007

0 out of 0 found this review helpful.

Apart from the price issue I would have to say this is a fantastic player. I compared it with 3 others where one was £350 JVC player and it knocked it's socks off - there was a huge difference in quality. I tried some old burned dvd's that the other players wouldn't play or skipped and shuddered - the Sony played them all smoothly.

I now have it hooked up to my 40" Bravia 1080p via component and the upscaling is truly awesome - others think that I have a Blue-Ray player.

£250 Are you taking the pi$$? - 02 Sep 2007

6 out of 7 found this review helpful.

I've recently bought this player from Tesco Extra in Irlam for £49 as it has been replaced by the DVP-NS78H which is available for around £79. How someone can charge nearly £250 for this discontinued product is beyond me.

Sony NS76H HDMI 1080i review - 06 Aug 2007

1 out of 3 found this review helpful.

Ok, so I'd been debating on buying this player for some time now, since I'm not quite ready to jump to blu ray just yet maybe in a year or two when I don't feel like I'm being taken for a mug for £500+ for a half decent player.
So, having stuck faithfully to my previous Toshiba DVD player since 2000, I thought, yep, things must have moved on lots by now and since I also have a 1080p 50" TV I thought it was time to give it a bit of a HDMI treat.
Ok, bear in mind I also have a decent surround system (also a Sony), here we go:
I've given it a try today on some new DVD's I have and some not more than 18months old to guage how it manages each. Bear in mind I also watched these same films not 2 days ago on my old Toshiba and I can honestly say DVD players have not gone anywhere in the past 7 years, sure my toshiba was a high end model (dual disc etc), but it's 7 years old and getting clunky... so, first up, sound vs sound, my old toshiba absolutely slaughters the NS76 for sound quality, my old player gave much more solid crisp beautiful sound than this Sony. No matter what setting I use on the Sony and believe me I've tried them all. I spent time re-setting the EQ's and balance on the my audio theater sound system just to try get it acceptable and that's what the Sony gave out in the end "acceptable" sound.
Image quality, even twiddling with the settings I'd say at very best the image quality on "some" of my dvd's is marginally better on the Sony. If I wasn't looking out for the differences, I'd never notice.
The Sony's controls, well the remote looks and feels a bit cheap, but it still seems like it'd last, so again, it's "ok".
The design of the NS76 is lovely, can't fault it there and the onscreen menu's do the job and are pretty easy to navigate.
But if given the choice on spending the £85 I just spent or hanging onto my old 7, nearly 8 year old Toshiba, which remember, just uses SCART, I'd have kept my £85 and hung on to the Toshiba until it died.
Disappointed in this player, it's not BAD per say, but it's certainly no better than a 2nd player I bought 2 years ago off Amazon for £20 some philips model or other that broke on me after 18months! If you want a stop gap between SD DVD and HD and thinking like I did of using this to fill in the next year or 2, don't bother, stick with your old one, however if your current player has broken down, then this Sony would be one of the better options if you don't want true HD.
And forget the rave reviews, this is not a brilliant player. It's an "alright" player, which I think should be no more than £45.
Katz.

Excellent DVD player - 20 Jul 2007

3 out of 3 found this review helpful.

I had purchased the Samsung 1080p7 DVD player but was never totally satisfied with it, there were problems with them player itself (slight pauses between some chapters, loss of sound and picture for a second or two, missing the 1st second of sound off both CD's and DVD's when skipping tracks)and the picture although good seemed to be slightly grainy and fuzzy.. I returned the Samsung and bought this Sony.

The first thing I noticed was the built quality of the Sony, it feels and looks much better quality.. The menu system is packed full of sound and picture tweaks although at first the menu can be difficult to navigate you soon get used to this.. There are picture tweaks like sharpness, brightness, colour and contrast/picture, if you read my review of the Samsung you will notice that this did cause problems with that machine because the difference between the stages on the picture settings were too great and also the brightness setting had too much of an effect on the contrast so setting it up via the THX calibration disk was a huge hassle.. well no such problems here.. these settings are fantastic for fine tuning the picture.. all in all I left them alone, I just added a little more colour to my picture.. Watching a DVD movie is fantastic, a smooth, colourful and detailed picture greets your eyes, watching a movie on this player is a pleasure, while watching the Samsung I always felt I needed to change the settings while watching a DVD but with this Sony it never crossed my mind.. sure you lose 1080p with this Sony as it only goes up to 1080i but a lot of people say the difference in the real world between the p and i is not really noticeable, my TV is a 720p so this doesn't affect me anyway. This Sony also has a couple of noise reduction settings that can be played with, I find the picture quality fine without using them but they are there if you feel you need them..

There are several sound settings for "fake" surround sounds, while these do work to some extent I did find them leaving the overall sound a little flat and hollow but I put this down to LCD TV usually having a limited sound capability anyway. playing thru a stereo system may help this a lot.

I haven't tried the component or scart sockets on this machine as I do have a LCD and I've connected the player to my TV via a cheap(ish) HDMI cable so I cannot comment of picture quality via the other outputs but I should imagine they would look fine if you are using a regular TV.

I'm very happy with this machine, watching DVD's is a pleasure now. I highly recommend this product..

Awesome. - 19 Jul 2007

2 out of 2 found this review helpful.

I have watched both Star Trek Nemesis and Elektra and was blown away by the beautiful image quality and the sound. Both Nemesis and Elektra looked like they were in HD even though it was being played of a regular DVD.

I have my DVD player and TV connected up to a very old surround system which has four speakers. The sound from the DVD player is absolutely stunning, especially with the TV Virtual Surround. There is a lot of precision in the direction and movement of the sounds and even though I have a very old surround system it often sounds as good as if it were 5.1.