Product Description

Organize your disc library and enjoy quick access to 400 Blu-ray Disc movies, DVDs, and CDs with the Sony BDP-CX960 MegaChanger. A user-friendly interface makes it easy to find the movie, TV show or CD yourre looking for by sorting and grouping title, genre, cast and more. The BDP-CX960 also features stunning Full HD 1080p quality in Blu-ray Disc technology and DVD upscaling to near HD quality.

Customer Reviews

By James Black (Taylor, TX USA)

It's about time an affordable BD changer appeared on the market. Picture and sound quality are equal or better than the PS3 it replaced. Been testing with Planet Earth, and the output is amazing. Also tested the up-scaling using the extended 'Return of the King' DVD, it's output was nearly good enough to keep me from buying the BD when (er. if) it appears.

Thank God for the new interface! It is much faster and easier to use than the old 'Disk Explorer' from the 300 and 400 disk Sony DVD changes.

The disk loading, and Gracenote, do need some improvement. If you just want to try the unit out after newly installing it, then start with only one disk. Because, every time you select the 'Load All Disks' option, it restarts from the beginning (disk 1), even if half of your collection was already stored.

The Gracenote had no info at all for about 1% of my collection. Another 2% had no picture jackets. And, perhaps the most annoying because of the number of times it happened, about 5% of my disks ended up with foreign language titles. You do have the option to over-ride this, which I did, and manually enter a title. Also there is the option to manually select different database entries - but all of the failed BD's had only a single entry. The player did manage to save my manual edits even when the disk was ejected and reloaded.

By Pamela (Long Island, NY)
 
I own two of these units, and love them!! They are everything that you would want from a blu-ray changer, and more. I found, through trial and error that the changers work at their best with the original firmware that came with it, and that the firmware update removes it's viability and causes nothing but grief. When I received my first changer, I loaded all of my discs. Everything worked perfectly. Even Gracenote found all but two of my 400 discs. Then I made the mistake of 'upgrading' the firmware. To my chegrin, 75% of my discs now came back "Invalid Disc". I managed to restore the original firmware, and voila, all of my discs were once again recognized.

I have read most of the reviews posted on Amazon for this unit. Many of them seem to be written in anger and haste and may be tainted by the writer because of this. To believe that the changer destroys discs is nonsense. If the reader inside of it destoyed 1 disc, then it would destroy all of them. Also, regarding Gracenote, if the description, or icon does not say what you expected, 'Load' that disc again. Gracenote will usually put up a menu with multiple choices for that disc. Pick the appropiate one.

I was so satisfied with my first unit, that I bought a second one. I have split my blu-ray discs so that unit #1 contains titles starting with 'A-O', and unit #2 contains 'P-Z'. Both are hooked up to the internet, and both work carefree, perfectly.

By Jeffrey Newman (Little Elm, TX)

I have a small man-cave, so this is wonderful device is overkill. However, given my 500+ disc collection, it definitely made life easier, especially with my anxiety about kids scratching and not taking care of my discs. This keeps their grubby little hands off them. :) ...

Technically speaking, for most people, Blu-Ray players do not get better than the Sony BDP-CX960. Pure HDMI 1080/24 video output.Multichannel PCM audio output via HDMI 1.3 audio for Bravia-sync receivers. Digitial optical, coaxial and stereo audio for every other brand. However, there is no wi-fi for the heavy need for Internet, which you will use for the Gracenote categorization and BD-Live components. I had to move my home router to my man-cave just to avoid buying a separate wi-fi NIC for this one unit. Small irritation.

In addition, there is no native bitstream decoding via HDMI, so the 1.3 output (and if you happen to have HDMI 1.3 input on your receiver) is really not able to be used at its full potential. 99.999% of the people won't care about that though. Decoding is only to PCM, which is, frankly, fine with me. I'm not even sure I have the ear to tell difference if it was pointed out to me. Long story short, especially for early Blu-ray adopters like me who spent nearly $500 on a slow, dinosaur of a Sony Blu-Ray player, the Sony BDP-CX960 is the right price for an exceptional product.

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