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In Reply to: Re: SONY DVS-7000 posted by GM on November 27, 1999 at 05:50:46:
"The 7000 was Sony's first outing for DVDPs and it was produced beginning 2 years ago (give or take)."Not to mention their best DVD player to date.
" I don't know what was meant by "Macrovision." This is not a term that is commonly associated with DVDPs--watch out for the sales tech-jargon."
Macrovision is not "sales tech-jargon" and IS commonly assosiated with DVD players to this day. All DVD players have to have Macrovision chips in them. Macrovision is the copy protection implemented by DVDs to prevent the tapeing of movies by a VCR (not to mention some with projection TVs say that it screws with the picture sometimes). To answer the original question, the first production run of 7000s featured two DIP switches on the main board of the player. One switch was the region code defeat, and the other was the Macrovision defeat. This means that if you have one of these you can disable region codeing and Macrovision with out any modifications to the player. This is the ONLY player ever to have this feature. NOTE: ONLY the first run had these switches. Later ones did not.
"The newer version (of which I am a proud owner) outperforms the 7000 across the board."
No it doesn't. The 7700 will not display the "blacker than black" on the pluge test pattern. The 7000 will. At best the 7700 may be the equal of the 7000 in video, and may be a little inferior than the 7000 for audio.
"As in any first-generation product, the 7000 had it's shortcomings, but it was (and still is) a very competant performer."What "shortcomings" are you refering to? First generation infererority is usually true, but on this particular product Sony "nailed it right the first time" and has gone downhill from there with their DVD players. Yes it is a very competent performer. It is the best, IMO, mainstream brand DVD player ever released to date.
"The 7700 has some features the 7000 didn't have, and I think it looks and sounds better."
Like DTS out and some variable audio filters. Did I miss something? Does it have more video adjustments than the 7000?
"The 7700 for example, could easily perform a dual role as your primary CDP as well (it has dual discrete pickups for both DVD and CD playback)."
No way!! A used $600 Meridian 506.18 would kill both the 7000 and 7700 as a CD player! The advantage of the dual pickups is not sound quality, but its ability to read CD-R disks.
"Is it worth $550? Depends on your budget. For $400 more you could have the newer version which would be covered under a warranty (the 7000 probably wouldn't given it's age) and would perform better."
Probably not worth $550 (last time I saw NEW leftover 7000s they went for IIRC $599 or $699) unless you are a serious DVD collector and the 7000 in question features the switces. At the same time it wouldn't be worth spending that much for the 7700 either. Your best bet, if you have to have DVD now, is to buy a $300 DVD player now, and next year or two spend the "big bucks" on a universal DVD/DVD-A/SACD player.
"Hope this helped!"
What? misinformation?
P.S. eventhough I am pro 7000, I do not own one. This is not owner bias.
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Follow Ups
- Re: SONY DVS-7000 - Mike 09:23:23 11/27/99 (6)
- Re: SONY DVS-7000 - GM 06:17:11 11/28/99 (4)
- FYI... - Rich 07:29:55 11/28/99 (3)
- Oh, by the way... - GM 11:02:15 11/29/99 (0)
- Re: FYI... - GM 07:48:55 11/28/99 (1)
- Re: FYI... - Shawn Harvey 00:10:45 12/06/99 (0)
- Nice job (nt) - Rich 05:57:11 11/28/99 (0)
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