Hi bigwill,
Wow, this is too easy!
Just re-read dakkons comments!!(Except change "projector" to "65 mits")
I would like to add that in the past I had read that the Disc Explorer was a bit slow and clunky and that even machine start-up was a long and tedious affair; software problems I believe. They musta changed something-no problems or delays.
By the way, it was my wife who wanted it, and is the one who normally uses it. And while she is more than happy with the way our system sounds and looks, She has little or no interest in the nuts and bolts of the thing. I was leaning toward the ES version, which happens to have a silver finish, but she thought the less expensive version in black would look better with the receiver and speakers(which are also in black)so we bought the DVP-CX985V model with an extended warranty to equal the 5 year warranty on the ES model.
But guess what?
No Complaints at all! It's really quite intuitive. (By the way, I still had to do the set-up, but it's an easy task)
As far as picture quality, I can't say that it's quite as good as HD, but it sure is a heck of a lot better than any of my other DVD players on 480i that had only composite out. I don't have any other current generation players to compare it to, but sitting here in my house, in my system, I have absolutely no complaints with either player operation or picture quality.
I'm running it directly to the TV rather than through the receiver cause the TV supports it, and I didn't want anything else in the signal path that might muck up a really good picture. And a really good picture it is!
And yes, this Sony also supports SACD but I still haven't gotten around to that yet, although I'm looking foreward to giving it a shot.
Would I recommend it? Hey, would I recommend Axiom?
Yeah! in my opinion, its a good deal all the way arpund!
Rich.
